Life's most important financial decisions are rarely isolated money decisions.
They emerge through transitions, setbacks, reinventions, and defining life moments that pull in two directions at once: toward the wealth you're building and toward the life you actually want to live. That tension is where much of traditional financial advice falls short. It focuses on the numbers while treating life as an afterthought.
Dr. Preston Cherry knows this tension from the inside.
At the height of his early career, everything appeared to be on track. A six-figure salary, executive benefits, and a life ahead of schedule. Then everything collapsed. Bankruptcy, addiction, and a personal reckoning forced him to rebuild from the ground up. That experience became the foundation for a new way of understanding wealth and financial decision-making.
In Wealth in the Key of Life: Finding Your Financial Harmony, Dr. Cherry introduces Financial Harmonyâ˘, life-aligned finances through wealth-secured well-being. The framework helps people navigate wealth, identity, and evolving life realities through aligned financial decision-making.
At its center is Return on Alignment⢠(ROA), a measure of how effectively your financial planning and strategy support the life you actually want to live. The goal is not simply accumulating more wealth. It is building wealth that supports your purpose, priorities, and well-being.
Drawing from financial planning, behavioral finance, financial therapy, and lived experience, Dr. Cherry explores why many financially successful people remain under-planned, over-maximize financial decisions, and become disconnected from the lives they are trying to create.
Inside you'll discover: Return on Alignment⢠(ROA); The Five Permissions of Wealthâ˘; The Humanity of Moneyâ˘; the distinction between optimization and maximization; and a philosophy for navigating retirement, career changes, business exits, reinvention, and life's major transitions.
Most financial books treat life as a backdrop to money. This book treats money as a partner to life.
If you've ever felt tension between the wealth you're building and the life you want to live, Wealth in the Key of Life offers a framework for finding your Financial Harmonyâ˘.
- 226 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Personal Journey to Holistic Wealth: From Bankruptcy to Balance
- Chapter One Admitting Where You Are
- Chapter Two Acknowledging How You Feel About Money
- Chapter Three Surviving Financial Trials with Resilience
- Chapter Four Taking Mindful Action
- Chapter Five Aligning Money with Values
- Chapter Six Aspiring for Financial Freedom
- Chapter Seven Mastering Financial Triumph
- Chapter Eight Achieving Financial Milestones
- Chapter Nine Transitioning with Willing Transformation
- Chapter Ten Financial Planning for a Fulfilling Life
- Chapter Eleven Generation X Can Help Unlock Financial Harmony
- Conclusion: Your Keys to Holistic Wealth
- Further Reading
- Index
- EULA
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