This book is a bit curious in terms of personal financial books that are typically found at your local bookstore. For example, the book is essentially full of tangible information about growing your wealth. Jonathan D. Pond, money manager has educated numerous Americans in his series of bestselling books: growing money while still living your life.

About the Author

Jonathan D. Pond's original work in educating the public on financial matters has been far-reaching and is widely acknowledged. His public television specials have been critically acclaimed for their usefulness and logical financial guidance to people of all financial circumstances. His books have sold more than one million copies, and his television work has been recognized with an Emmy and a Forbes Award. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, Emory University, and Harvard Business School. He lives in a Boston suburb with his wife, three daughters, a dog, and a cat.

Whether preparing for children, affording the ones you have, buying a home, investing for retirement, or learning how not to live from paycheck to paycheck; Jonathan's dynamic, kind, and no-nonsense economic opinions have made him a regular on The Today Show and CNN as well as on PBS. In Grow Your Money, Pond shares the best of his decades of financial advice to create a keystone compendium.

So what exactly does Grow Your Money: 101 Easy Tips to Plan, Save, and Invest have to offer exactly?

?· How to buy a home

?· Paying off debit & using debt to your advantage

?· Saving more money

?· Managing your investments

?· Why collecting Social Security early is a mistake

?· Dual-income homes: does that second paycheck help as much as you think?

?· Get rich slowly

?· Give Uncle Sam his due at tax time

Right off the bat, the book goes in an interesting direction. The result can be startling, and it often reveals many truths about your relationship with money. Specifically it details how to program your financial system, and shares some success stories.

Rather than focusing on being rich, the book instead looks deeply at finding the central values in one's life and realigning your life and money to follow those values. The idea here is that most people's money problems are actually connected to a lack of fundamental direction in their lives

The book uses a number of rather unorthodox methods for exposing this truth in your life. Much of the book is spent defining values and placing them in real financial perspective, going so far as to often conclude that you should change jobs; but do so by leaving on good terms. In terms of a get rich quick scheme, this is anathema, but it is also quite enlightening.

The book's real purpose is to reframe your relationship with money, not to reframe your management with money. The book makes no qualms about stating that for many people, working a full workweek is not the best way to live life, and that one should seek the best way to live their own life, not live the life others expect or demand.

The book has lots of anecdotes - but it has a lot of detail, too. This is a fairly long book as personal finance books go, but it provides a lot of food for thought; even if you do not buy into the overall plan. I was particularly impressed with the advantageous tax savings. I also was relieved to learn how to make affordable sound investments with my limited budget without the risks or difficulties.

Whether you're working on your third million-or your third year out of college-take advantage of this all-time best collection of financial tools and tips from one of America's most-loved money managers and advisers.

This is a book that will benefit everyone. It is a 'must have' for every household. ( )