Make Your Money Count now offers online financial fitness workshops for your convenience. Our 8-session online financial fitness workshop is designed to provide fun, fellowship and the opportunity to share your experience, strength, and hope with others on your journey to financial fitness.
Each session integrates biblical principles and honest dialogue with a practical financial life planning process. No matter where you are on the economic scale, our goal is to help you build financial, emotional, and spiritual muscle!
“The Blueprint for Financial Success“, guides participants through the ABCs of managing money with purpose and contentment.
Make Your Money Count promotes personal empowerment, responsibility, and a holistic approach to financial fitness. Private consultation and personal coaching are available upon request.
Here’s What’s Covered in Our  Online Curriculum
Session 1 – Your Heart’s Desire: A lifestyle of consumerism and “looking good” comes with an enormous price-tag but in the end it will leave you longing for something more.
Session 2 – First Memories about Money: Your financial assumptions and expectations are shaped by early life experiences. Transform your financial future as you break free from your past.
Session 3 – Powered by Purpose: When you clarify your higher purpose, you discover a higher power that enables you to manage your money with true purpose and contentment.
Session 4 – The Blueprint for Financial Success: This practical tool is designed to connect your resources with your life goals so that you Make Your Money Count every step of the way.
Session 5 – Putting it All Together: A comprehensive financial plan includes everything from insurance to estate planning – the key to an effective plan is continuing to take the next step.
Session 6 – Small Steps, Big Payoffs: Financial discipline means doing the small things that are in easy reach. Soon, you are empowered to achieve big goals that once seemed impossible.
Session 7 – Tipping Points: Money is tangible but managing it involves spiritual, emotional, and relational obstacles. Before moving forward, it helps to identify the obstacles in your path.
Session 8 – Pay it Forward:  By practicing these principles in your own life, you leave a legacy of hope, humility, responsibility, integrity, courage, and contentment for the people you love.
Click here if you’d like to attend our online version of  Make Your Money Count Workshop.
Financial Fitness workshops will help you build clarity, confidence, and the courage to move forward in your life. Financial Coaching can be a valuable resource if and when you get “stuck” along the way. Click here to learn more about Financial Coaching in Houston, Texas.
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About Jim
My name is Jim Munchbach and I've worked for State Farm since 1989. In 2001 I became a CFP® professional. I didn't know it at the time but learning to "think like a financial planner" changed my life forever. Since then, my focus has shifted from product sales to community service. My goal for each person in every financial webinar or workshop is to have fun, share fellowship, and take the next step to financial freedom.
Contact with Jim
You can connect with me through my main website:
http://www.makeyourmoneycount.org/
Send me an email.
Attend a financial workshop in the Houston, TX area.
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About Jim
My name is Jim Munchbach and I've worked for State Farm since 1989. In 2001 I became a CFP® professional. I didn't know it at the time but learning to "think like a financial planner" changed my life forever. Since then, my focus has shifted from product sales to community service. My goal for each person in every financial webinar or workshop is to have fun, share fellowship, and take the next step to financial freedom.
Contact with Jim
You can connect with me through my main website:
http://www.makeyourmoneycount.org/
Send me an email.
Attend a financial workshop in the Houston, TX area.
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About Jim
My name is Jim Munchbach and I've worked for State Farm since 1989. In 2001 I became a CFP® professional. I didn't know it at the time but learning to "think like a financial planner" changed my life forever. Since then, my focus has shifted from product sales to community service. My goal for each person in every financial webinar or workshop is to have fun, share fellowship, and take the next step to financial freedom.
Contact with Jim
You can connect with me through my main website:
http://www.makeyourmoneycount.org/
Send me an email.
Attend a financial workshop in the Houston, TX area.
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Advanced Training for Financial Life Coaches
This advanced training is designed to equip financial coaches to use simple, proven, and effective tools to add value to your relationships with clients, build a team of specialists, and create an increasing revenue stream.
Ten Advanced Modules to Build Your Financial Coaching Business
Uncovering Your Client’s Real Goals: Tools and techniques to help you connect with what matters most to your clients, which will demonstrate that they are more than a number to you.Earning and Building Your Client’s Trust: What matters most in any relationship is trust.  Develop the heart and skills that enable you to earn the trust of your clients.First Memories: A person’s financial assumptions and expectations are shaped by significant experiences in their past. Learn to ask key questions to help transform your clients’ financial future.Powered by Purpose: Connecting money management principles with a client’s compelling purpose in life makes all the difference to them and to you.A Clear Plan: Learn to use the tool, The Blueprint for Financial Success, to build a “purpose-centered alliance” with your clients to fulfill their dreams – and yours, too!Simplifying the Complex: Some clients can understand complicated financial concepts, but most people want us to communicate in clear, simple terms.Put It All Together: A comprehensive financial plan includes everything from insurance to estate planning –a good plan makes the next step clear and easy.Marketing Your Services: Practice the most effective ways to attract the right people and engage more clients than you can possibly serve.A Synergy of Specialists: Financial Specialists appreciate referrals from you – people who buy the products and services they sell. Build a team of specialists to provide great service to your clients and non-stop referrals to you.Brass Tacks: Using the Internet and live events to attract a client base, serve clients the way they want to be served, and create an annually increasing revenue stream.
Advanced Training for Financial Life Coaches is based on three books: Allied for Success, What Matters Most, and Make Your Money Count. Advanced training modules can be delivered online via GoToMeeting or at live events.
Contact me (Jim Munchbach) today.
Or, visit our resource page to purchase our products:
Allied for Success: Creating a Synergy of Specialists to Fulfill Our Clients’ Dreams (FPA Press)—for financial professionals
What Matters Most: Building a Purpose-Centered Alliance with Your Clients to Fulfill Their Dreams—and Yours, Too (Baxter Press)—for financial professionals
Make Your Money Count: Connecting Your Resources to What Matters Most (Baxter Press)—for clients
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About Jim
My name is Jim Munchbach and I've worked for State Farm since 1989. In 2001 I became a CFP® professional. I didn't know it at the time but learning to "think like a financial planner" changed my life forever. Since then, my focus has shifted from product sales to community service. My goal for each person in every financial webinar or workshop is to have fun, share fellowship, and take the next step to financial freedom.
Contact with Jim
You can connect with me through my main website:
http://www.makeyourmoneycount.org/
Send me an email.
Attend a financial workshop in the Houston, TX area.
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Imagine if you were the person who invented the  “Weed-Eater”…
One day, you decide to take your new invention to a trade-show so that other people can try it out. The only problem is – the facility where your trade-show is being held is a beautiful convention center, the weedless kind! So, how do you go about explaining what your creation was designed to do?
The very best approach is to take your powerful innovation into the backyards of people in your community. If they let you into their yards, if they’re open to a live demonstration, you are certain to win them. Of course, the difficult part is to “sell” them on letting you eat their weeds…
The simple fact that you’re trying to “sell” something in the first place makes them skeptical of you and your invention. No matter how good your new machine is, no matter how powerful and effective it might be, its worthless unless it actually has the opportunity to eat some weeds.
Make Your Money Count is a financial fitness workshop with personal coaching available upon request. During the opening session, we introduce our teacher…
Jesus said that our spiritual vitality can be choked out by the “weeds” of worrying about having more possessions, the deceptive lure of getting more money, and having our hearts focused on the wrong things. In Make Your Money Count, we learn to pull these weeds from our hearts and replace them with a clear, compelling purpose. When we have a strong sense of direction, we’ll be more motivated to connect everything in our lives – including our finances – to what matters most to us.
Our financial fitness workshop is designed to help each participant construct a written personal financial plan using The Blueprint for Financial Success.
Each session integrates biblical principles, honest dialogue, and financial life planning concepts. Make Your Money Count promotes personal empowerment, responsibility, and a holistic approach to financial fitness and spiritual wellness.
Make Your Money Count is an interactive workshop designed to help us become very good financial weed-eaters… click here to learn more.
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“Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.” —John Wayne

Several years ago, Connie, Carissa, Brandon and I went skiing in Colorado with several families from our community. No one in our family had ever skied before, but from the first day, we had a blast! At the end of the second day, I was taking one last trip down the mountain. I hit a patch of ice and took a tumble, and a stump arrested my fall. My chest hit it at full speed! It knocked the breath out of me, and I was pretty shaken. In only a few seconds, the pain was so bad that I thought they’d have to call for a helicopter rescue. I gasped for breath, and my chest felt like every rib was broken. I thought, If I live through this, it’ll be great. And if I’m able to walk again, it will be a miracle! I was as scared as hurt. After about 15 minutes, I was able to move a little bit. I was bleeding and bruised, but not on the verge of seeing my Maker like I’d feared. That was it for me. No more skiing that year.

The next winter, the same crowd of friends planned a trip to go skiing again. The memory of my last run the previous year haunted me, but I didn’t say a word. Connie and the kids had had a wonderful time the year before, and all summer and fall we talked about making an annual trek to the mountains to ski. This was the first thing our family had been excited about doing together, and I didn’t want to mess it up. By the time we got to Colorado, though, I was having panic attacks: rapid, shallow breathing, sleeplessness, nausea, and sheer terror at the thought of getting hurt again. My insides were in a knot, but I didn’t want to tell anybody because I was ashamed.

I desperately wanted to have fun with my family and friends, and in that moment of need, I told my friend George about my fears. He didn’t laugh at me, and he didn’t tell me I was stupid. He just listened, and then he said, “Hey, why don’t you and I ski together?” It was one of the most gracious things anybody has ever done for me.

My anxiety, though, didn’t disappear in that moment. It was too deep to be washed away by a kind word from a friend. As George went down the mountain with me, I fell over and over again because I was so tense. (Sounds like fun, huh?) After a few minutes, George came to my rescue. He gave me a new perspective about what I was trying to do. He said, “Instead of just pointing your skis downhill, pick a point across the slope, ski to it, and then pick another point back across the slope. Manage the mountain from one point to another.”

The combination of George’s kindness and his lesson on a new strategy made a world of difference. By the time I got to the bottom of the slope, I had renewed hope that I could enjoy skiing with my family for years to come. What a relief! And that was just the first run of the day. George hung out with me the rest of the day, and he showed me more techniques and helped me understand more of the art of skiing. By the end of the day, my confidence had soared!

The last three years, our family has gone skiing each year, and we’ve had some of the best times of our lives. Today, I look back on that moment when I first talked to George about my fears, and I’m so thankful for his friendship, encouragement, and instruction.

My experience skiing parallels how a lot of people think and feel about managing money. They may not throw up and have panic attacks, but they feel overwhelmed and paralyzed by the fear that they’ll make a mistake. All of us need to be honest with a friend who can step into our lives and give us some encouragement and direction. We may not be able to figure it all out on our own, but we don’t have to. A friend can help us take the first step, and when we see success, we’ll be able to take another and another. Soon, we’re connecting our resources to what matters most, and we’re skiing down the proverbial black slope in our finances.

Tipping points are moments of choice. In those moments, we can stay stuck in neutral, or we can make courageous decisions—however much we hesitate in making them—to take a step in a new direction.

Tipping points are choices, and one of the most powerful choices we can make is to be thankful. Some might read the last sentence and wonder, I thought thankfulness was a response. How is it a choice? Good question. I believe it’s both a response and a choice. Certainly, when our hearts feel grateful, our mouths find a way to express our thanks. But I know people who exhibit tenacious thankfulness, even through some of the most difficult circumstances I can imagine. I’m not talking about a foolish, Pollyanna attitude that can’t see reality. No, I’m talking about the ability to push past the obvious to see the hidden, to trust that God is at work to accomplish his purposes even when we can’t see his hand at work.

I know people who are painfully honest about the disappointments and setbacks they experience, but who cling to a steadfast belief that a good and sovereign God rules the universe, and he is actively involved in every detail of their lives. They aren’t limited to thanking God for the blessings they see. They have developed spiritual eyes like a cat, and they trust God to work even in darkness. With that vision, they give thanks to God because they’re convinced that he will work, somehow and some way, to bring meaning even in their most difficult moments. And when they experience God’s blessings, these people are the first to celebrate! I appreciate these people, and I want to become more like them. I’ve noticed that it is in the hard times, the painful times,  the times of loss that we’re most likely to face a “Tipping Point”.

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When it comes to financial professionals, we have lots of titles – most of them are designed to make us smarter than you. Before you trust someone to manage your money, you might want to ask them to define “Fiduciary”.
Click here to read an article to help you understand the difference between a “Fiduciary” and somebody who just sells stuff.
MSN article…
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