Building Wealth: Freedom of Time & Money
A short, practical guide to getting your money working for you, so you can buy back your time.
Get it on Amazon ↗About the book
Most people spend tens of thousands of hours earning money and almost no time learning how to keep it. Building Wealth is my attempt to fix that in a few evenings of reading. It skips the motivational fluff and goes straight to what you can actually do.
The book has two goals: take control of your own time, and get your money to work for you. It starts with why saving cash is no longer enough, explains the three biggest things that quietly drain your money, and then walks through exactly what to invest in and how to set it up.
Who it’s for
- You live paycheque to paycheque and want a way out
- You save a little but don't know where to put it
- You already invest and want a simpler, cheaper plan
- You want to understand inflation, index funds and Bitcoin in plain words
All 18 chapters
- Time to Level Up
- Times Have Changed
- Inflation
- The Power of Compounding Growth
- Enemy #1: High Interest Debt
- Enemy #2: Day Trading
- Enemy #3: High Fees
- Stocks
- Dividends
- SPY
- VT
- Bonds
- TLT & BNDX
- Bitcoin
- Getting Invested
- Outpace Inflation
- Budgeting
- Insert Motivation Here
Key ideas
- Time matters more than money. Financial freedom means owning your time, not just having a big balance.
- Inflation and taxes quietly shrink cash savings every year, so money sitting still is money going backwards.
- Compounding rewards starting early and staying consistent, even through market drops.
- High interest debt, day trading and high fees are the three enemies that do the most damage.
- A simple mix of low cost stock funds, bonds and Bitcoin beats trying to pick winners.
- How to open an account, invest a set amount on a schedule, and then leave it alone to grow.
About the author
Jeff Kirdeikis founded TrustSwap, a decentralized finance platform that has secured more than $3 billion across 10 blockchains. He lives in Squamish, B.C. More about Jeff
Also by Jeff: Bitcoin: Money For Freedom