Introduction
Read. Scan. Do.
Before Chapter 1, the Introduction asks one question. Answer it here, honestly, and the page tells you where you stand. Then work through the chapters in order, or jump to the one you are reading. Every tool is listed on the kit page, one tap back.
The Quiet Fear Test
One question, answered honestly. If your income stopped today and nothing new came in, how many months could your household continue as it is before something had to change dramatically?
Do not guess optimistically. Write the honest number. It is a position, not a verdict, and we will move it together. Chapter 11 of the book builds the buffer that moves it. Chapter 17 sends you back here to write the new number under the old one.
The STEADY card
GPS sets the route once. The system runs every payday, without you. Once a month, glance at your net worth. Once a quarter, on your Chapter 7 checkpoint dates, run this card: six questions, twenty minutes.
S. Start. With what you have. What is the one next step?
T. Track. Every dollar. Update the four numbers.
E. Earn. Raise your ceiling. Is the next raise on the calendar?
A. Automate. Remove willpower. Did every transfer run?
D. Defend. Protect what you build. Did life change? Does coverage still fit?
Y. Yield. To your future. Did you leave the investments alone?
STEADY beats luck.
Six moves. Twenty minutes. Every quarter. Read them when you wobble.
Opens the color poster, one page, letter size. Print it from there and put it on the wall.
One chapter, ten minutes, then put the phone down
Work the tool for the chapter you just read, print or download your sheet, and go back to the book. Seventeen chapters of that and you will have a whole system.