Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

Stop Sleepwalking Through Finances

10 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Richard Canfield referencing his book 'Five Smooth Stones'. It urges moving from chaotic, anxious habits to deliberate living—tracking income/outgo, setting policies, inspecting progress, and seeking incremental (1%) improvements—applied to financial analysis and life. The speaker also reflects on parenting goals: ensuring his son gains values of faith and integrity alongside financial success.

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Our book is Five Smooth Stones. That is a moving from chaos, which we call confusion, haphazard, anxious, overwhelming and stressful, to still setting your sights, tracking your in and out, inspecting your progress, looking for 1% and living deliberately. I believe most people are sleepwalking through life. A policy is setting your sights, tracking. And that's what we do in financial analysis. We're asking those questions, and we're just like, okay, now you have to live deliberately. Put premium in. That's something that I want. My son. I only have one child, but how do I get that? And how do I help him? Not just get the money, because he's going to get rich. I know that's going to happen. But I want him to have the values of what it means to be a person of faith, a person of integrity.