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SCOTT FORD is President and founder of Cornerstone Wealth Management Group. Named one of 2008’s “20 Rising Stars of Wealth Management” by Private Asset Management magazine, he provides proactive investment and wealth management advice based upon his trademarked system Way2Wealth to a limited number of business owners, entrepreneurs, and affluent families. Ford has been a guest on NBC and Fox affiliates and has contributed to the Today show. Additionally, he has been featured in the New York Times, ­Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal and, InvestmentNews. Ford ­studies Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at Clinch Academy in Maryland.

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What is mind over market?

The financial market is like an adversary that's bigger, faster, and stronger than you as an individual investor could ever hope to be. Financial Jiu-Jitsu: A Fighter's Guide to Conquering Your Finances evens the playing field, showing you how to be a smarter fighter in the battle for financial freedom.

From year to year and even minute to minute, financial markets change, sometimes dramatically. The average investor grapples with this fact in one of two ways: fear everything and do nothing, or get emotionally caught up in Wall Street's every move, reacting impulsively and irrationally to each up or down. There's a third option. And if it's your hope to achieve a firm financial footing, it's your only option?master the guiding principles of finance to achieve mind over market, expertly and effortlessly adapting to and overcoming market swings. Financial Jiu-Jitsu shows you how to master the basic principles of finance to:

• Overcome fear
• Set aside emotions
• Build a financial foundation that can be leveraged to build real wealth regardless of what the market throws at you

Everyone's fighting a battle for financial freedom. Most are losing. Financial Jiu-Jitsu shows you how to win.

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Trading either commodities or foreign currencies might sound exciting. But if you haven't mastered even the basics of money management?establishing an emergency fund, maintaining a budget, and setting money aside for your children's education and your retirement?can you honestly say you're on the path to perfecting the art of personal finance?

In Financial Jiu-Jitsu: A Fighter's Guide to Conquering Your Finances, financial advisor and Jiu-Jitsu enthusiast Scott Ford shows how mastering your finances?like mastering a martial art?has nothing to do with perfecting thousands of exotic, technically challenging moves. Rather, mastery is as simple as performing a handful of basic moves thousands of times. These basic financial moves include:

• Prepare to Win: Paying yourself first, maintaining a cash safety net, managing credit wisely, and never procrastinating
• Balance and Base: Determining your specific financial goals, and developing a vision for your life
• Closing the Gap: Overcoming your fear of the unknown by creating a personal balance sheet and using it to analyze your current financial situation
• The Power of Respect: Choosing and working with a financial advisor
• Timing: Taking advantage of tax-deferred investments, maxing out 401(k) contributions, and contributing to IRAs
• Gain Control: The basics of an estate plan, living trust, pourover will, and power of attorney
• Position Before Submission: Protecting yourself with insurance
• Attitude: Planning for your retirement

Learning Jiu-Jitsu taught Scott Ford to face both personal and professional challenges head on?to anticipate problems, to be open to new ideas, and to seize opportunities. Now, in Financial Jiu-Jitsu, he teaches you how to use the guiding principles of finance to build a solid financial foundation that can then be leveraged to help you achieve your long-term financial goals, while building lasting wealth for you and your family.

You can't plan for everything life and the economy might throw at you. But after reading Financial Jiu-Jitsu, you'll be prepared for almost anything.