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Area of Mastery – Self-Help For The Busy Millennial
I have written two self-help guides called, “How to Become Comfortable -‘Old Money’ Advice for the Savvy Millennial” and “Life Skills to Master For A More Comfortable Life,”
These guides contain no get-rich-quick schemes, just old-fashioned, tried and tested, “Don’t say I never told you” styled advice for the savvy millennial. It started as a handbook for my daughters as the sudden death of a friend, who was younger and fitter than me, reminded me that I might not be around to offer advice when needed.
Successful people won’t say they’re rich. They’ll say they’re comfortable. And if you really think about it, comfortable sounds marvellous.
I have written two self-help guides called, “How to become comfortable -‘Old money’ advice for the Savvy Millennial” and “Life Skills to Master For A More Comfortable Life,”
How to become comfortable includes content on:
- Finding Wally – tips to help you find a life partner worth keeping
- Guidelines when weighing up ‘Should I stay or should I go’ from a relationship
- Importance of identifying your and your partner’s love languages
- How to separate without funding the legal profession
- The twenty tips when buying your first home
- Tips to secure your financial future
- How to avoid dumb investments
- How to avoid buying a ‘lemon’ of a car
- How to get your fines waived
- How to complete your life’s purpose (your Ikigai) and your treasure map
- How to handle your personal baggage
- How to ascertain your natural talents
- Making sure your career is as secure as a hedgehog
- How to use ‘Magnetic Marketing’ to find a better job
- Steps to help you find the right job and avoid being conned
- What to check when intending to make a major career change
- Working more effectively with others
- How to make progress renovating your first home
Life Skills to Master For A More Comfortable Life includes content on:
- The six types of friends
- Being more effective with your time
- How to face tough times
- How to complete your life’s purpose (your Ikigai) and your treasure map so your life has a direction you have actively chosen
- How to handle your personal baggage
- How to master effective communication and your anger
- How to negotiate to a “Yes”
- You and your mental health
- Simple things to do to increase your survival odds when driving
- Embracing abandonment- the most important life skill
- Creating strong and healthy work relationships
- Handling office drama and a ‘bully of a boss’
- The importance of a second passion, a respite from stress
Some of the Published Articles & Chapter Extracts
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David Parmenter can help in 3 ways:
1. David Parmenter’s implementation guides with E-templates
If you want to access the latest thoughts of David Parmenter on implementing Quarterly Rolling Forecasting, buy his implementation guide which is constantly updated and is a comprehensive (120 pages) guide. If you want to implement a planning tool, buy his implementation guide(110 pages). Both of these guides come with electronic templates to get your implementation started. At the time of acquisition, David reviews, updates the guide as appropriate, and emails them to the purchaser.
3. E-templates from David Parmenter’s best-selling The Financial Controller and CFO’s Toolkit Book
You can purchase all the electronic versions of the book templates. Once the paypal notification has been received the templates are emailed with 48 hours.
2. David Parmenter’s ‘Expert’ articles
For areas which are not covered by an implementation guide, David Parmenter has written a shorter (20- 30 pages) ‘Expert’ Article to help you make progress. They can be read and absorbed in an hour. All you need to do is purchase them via the PayPal link and they will be emailed to you with accompanying useful E-templates within 48 hours. To buy multiple guides access the special deal.
How should my finance team be performing?
Imagine your Finance team making history rather than just reporting on it. Imagine your month-end reporting being completed within 3 working days or less, your annual planning process being replaced by quarterly rolling planning, a year-end when you have the end of audit party within 3 weeks of your year-end, a happy and well function team. This website will offer you methodologies to fix the common problems in the finance team that will have a profound impact on your organisation and on your career.
We can make this a reality. I’m David Parmenter. I am the author of The Financial Controllers and CFO’s Toolkit 3rd Edition. It is a follow-on from Winning CFOs and Pareto’s 80/20 for Corporate Accountants.
A look inside the book – a 25 page extract
Download the chapter 14 on “Attracting and recruiting talent”
Download the chapter 3 on “Rapid month-end reporting: by day three or less”
Download the chapter 16 on Implementing quarterly rolling forecasting and planning
Testimonials on The Financial Controllers and CFO’s Toolkit 3rd edition
Short Interview With David Parmenter
Dear David,
I wanted to write and say thank you for the positive impact you have had on my own financial career and journey. I first came across your work at a CIMA workshop on KPIs in the early 2000’s. It was held in London. I think it may have been at the CIMA Institute HQ.
I was truly inspired that day not only by the content delivered but the way you delivered it. Since then, I’ve purchased your books, updated editions, etc. and have applied many principles. Without a doubt, the inspiration and the application of your ideas/concepts have given me success, and that success has allowed me life experiences that I would not have thought possible.
I always recommend your books to my peers, finance staff, and those going through graduate programs, etc and enjoy the benefits. The faster month-end close and post-it session to get there has been a particular favorite of mine. It gets the foundations right for the next stages in a Finance department’s evolution.
I’ve thought about writing something like this for many years and showing my gratitude. Today I thought I’d just be kind and get on with saying thanks. All the best.
— David Stuart Finance Director Holker Group
