Rich Woman, by Kim Kiyosaki ( by Gemma Jenks, aged 26 )
I closed the book and sat back ‘Huh’ was the only phrase that I could muster. I believe that I sat in silence for about 5 minutes completely dumbstruck – it was like my brain had to take time to process the information I had just read. Then began the dawning of realisation, the mist began to lift, the cloud of self-doubt and disbelief began to clear away. Categorically this Rich Woman by Kim Kiyoskai had just changed my life.
Now I will share with you a secret, I have read, I’d say, 90% of the entire Rich Dad Poor Dad catalogue and reread it and reread it … I know what he says does touch a nerve and does make you think, but it has never made me get off my backside and make the positive changes. So I didn’t really know what to expect when I ordered my copy of Rich Woman and to be honest I had a long period of anticipation before I found out (note: when ordering off Amazon Marketplace – check where they are shipping from and what method they are using – I swear mine actually did come on strapped to the back of a snail).
Finally, two weeks later, upon receipt of my book – my first thought was – this isn’t for women like me – I’m young ! I don’t need to worry about this stuff for a while yet !. But as I started to read more I became engrossed – obsessed even – I was so shocked at how much of what she said hit home!.
Told in a more story-like way than Rich Dad Poor Dad, it allows you to reflect on real-life situations and how the principles reflect directly into your own life. The basic premise is that Kim is meeting her former friends from college for a reunion lunch in the Plaza, New York, twenty years after she last saw them all. It takes you through how the women’s lives have turned out compared to what they planned all those years ago and how they start to make changes (or don’t).
Factually it gives you so much background into the importance of becoming a woman who is financially aware, how to start to build your own financial education and then this builds into planning how to get exactly what you want. (It even has a chapter on what to do if your partner doesn’t want to be involved.)
Within a day of reading it – I started making notes, planning, drawing up defined goals and how to get them. I subscribed to podcasts to listen to on my way to work. I started eating better, I started to exercise. My poor husband didn’t know what had happened – but this is the thing – it doesn’t matter ! because when you educate yourself and make the changes and start to draw in results he’ll follow – very famous quote “if you build it, they will come” (the only bit of Field of Dreams I watched). Although I have surreptitiously left a copy of ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ on his bedside table!
This is why this blog and our website is so important – We must enRICH our lives, we must learn and try and do and succeed. This isn’t about Women’s Rights – this is about YOU as an individual and what you want and need – it might be to be able to quit your day-job to be a stay-at-home mum, it might be to run your own international corporate empire or it might be to become a writer.
Do your partner and your kids and most of all yourself a favour and buy Rich Woman by Kim Kiyosaki (just remember to tick next day delivery!)
