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The personal money course

Twenty-seven lessons in eight modules, each one a set of steps you do tonight on paper or on your phone, and each one handing you to the next. The course assumes you know nothing, and everything in it works for a Muslim household. Start at lesson one even if you think you already know it.

Start with lesson one

1 Money and mindset

  1. 1.1 How money moves through your home
  2. 1.2 Halal earning and working out your zakat
  3. 1.3 Seven habits that make you poor, and seven that don't
  4. 1.4 Income streams, and why the salary alone isn't enough

2 Budgeting and tracking

  1. 2.1 Tracking spending, how to find the leaks in thirty days
  2. 2.2 Pay yourself first, and set your daily figure
  3. 2.3 The household budget and the grocery shop, with everyone in on it

3 Clearing instalments and debt

  1. 3.1 Listing every instalment and commitment on one sheet
  2. 3.2 The repayment order, smallest first or the one that weighs most?
  3. 3.3 The consumer instalment trap, and one rule that keeps you out of it

4 Saving and the emergency fund

  1. 4.1 The emergency fund, how much is enough and where to keep it
  2. 4.2 Automatic saving, three mechanisms that don't depend on your willpower
  3. 4.3 Dated savings goals, so a season never catches you out again

5 Protecting money from inflation

  1. 5.1 What inflation is and how it eats your savings without you noticing
  2. 5.2 Saving in gold to hold value, bars and coins, never jewellery
  3. 5.3 The currency basket and liquidity, the rule of thirds

6 Halal investing basics

  1. 6.1 Investing in halal shares, where to start and where not to
  2. 6.2 Property and rental investing, a locked flat is not an investment
  3. 6.3 How to build a balanced investment portfolio
  4. 6.4 Investing in yourself, a fixed share of income for skills

7 Family money and children

  1. 7.1 Running the household finances between partners, three systems that work
  2. 7.2 Teaching children to manage and save money, from the jar to the decision
  3. 7.3 Teaching children charity and giving, by hand, not by words

8 A small business alongside the job

  1. 8.1 Researching the market and testing the idea before you spend a pound
  2. 8.2 Managing a small business's cash flow, profit is not liquidity
  3. 8.3 Starting an online store on a small budget, with no warehouse and no shipping
  4. 8.4 Balancing a job and a side business, and when to resign

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