How Much Is Enough?: Making Financial Decisions That Create Wealth And Well-Being

This memorable book presents a distilled and coordinated system of the best practical wisdom that men and women can apply in their daily life.

Each concept unfolds logically and in an easy-to-understand way, and encourages the reader to embrace it and to apply it successfully in his daily life. In just a few minutes, the busy reader can focus and refer to it frequently for reinforcement and inspiration.

You will find the ideas and guidelines in this book insightful and inspiring. They will spur you on and show you how to attain your full potential, and to live a happier and more successful life.

In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences—especially our religious and ideological differences. The Case for Civility is a proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world. Influential Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness makes a passionate plea to put an end to the polarization of American politics and culture that—rather than creating a public space for real debate—threatens to reverse the very principles our founders set into motion and that have long preserved liberty, diversity, and unity in this country.

Guinness takes on the contemporary threat of the excesses of the Religious Right and the secular Left, arguing that we must find a middle ground between privileging one religion over another and attempting to make all public expression of faith illegal. If we do not do this, Guinness contends, Western civilization as we know it will die. Always provocative and deeply insightful, Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical "civil and cosmopolitan public square" that speaks not only to America's immediate concerns but to the long-term interests of the republic and the world.

Recession-Proof Your Mind and Rewire Your Brain for Wealth

As financial stress mounts and an economic crash looms, Wired for Wealth shows you that the biggest threat to your financial health is not a recession; it's your brain. Markets go up and markets go down, but one fact holds true: Your money scripts—the unconscious core beliefs you hold about money—will determine whether you win or lose in the long run. But there is hope. Drawing on the results of a landmark survey of people's money habits, as well as their decades of work improving their clients' financial lives, renowned financial psychologists Drs. Brad Klontz and Ted Klontz and financial planner Rick Kahler, CFP® show you how you can rewire your brain for wealth. Their unexpected insights show you how you can free yourself from excessive debt, financial stress, money avoidance, and a lack of savings. You'll discover:

• The top 10 money scripts that mess up people's financial lives—and how to change them
• How to identify your 'financial comfort zone'—and how to break through it
• How to curtail family money issues, including financial infidelity, financially dependent children, and conflicts over money
• What to do if your money scripts are keeping you poor by overspending, underspending, excessive debt, lack of savings, and lack of retirement planning
• What to do if your money scripts keeping you poor in spirit—how to release guilt and fear for good, and be at peace with what you have.

Entertaining and enlightening, Wired for Wealth will put you in control of your finances and enable you to break through to new levels of wealth and security.

A Guide to Confident Living shows you how to release your inner powers to achieve confidence and contentment. Using accessible language, Dr. Peale helps you find the way to new energy that will actually revitalize your life. Here, he offers advice on how to:

free your inner powers

"talk out" your troubles

lose your inferiority complex

achieve a calm center for your life

practice the power of prayer

find freedom from fear and sorrow

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This Element is an excerpt from Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What You Really Want (ISBN: 9780132350099) by Gregory Karp. Available in print and digital formats.

How just a little advance planning can help you avoid dangerous holiday overspending.

If you’ve bought Christmas gifts every year, did you think this year would be different? We often overspend for annual events because we don’t plan for them. First, we don’t save for them, so the purchase ends up on a credit card, racking up interest. Second, we run short on time and rush into bad buying decisions. Here are some ways to avoid holiday overspending….

Whether you’re the mother of toddlers or teens, work inside the home or out— if you’re exhausted from trying to be perfect, this book can help you. Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too uses hundreds of real-life stories and mom-tested tips to demonstrate how taking time-outs will transform your life. Practical and inspiring, this book will launch you on a voyage of discovery that takes you back to yourself, and it will help you become the best mother you can be by becoming the best woman you can be.

Written by moms, for moms, this book will help you create a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life for you and your family. The authors draw on their own extensive experience and that of hundreds of women around the world, and bring to light a variety of helpful resources--from cutting-edge studies to Eastern philosophies--to create this innovative, inspiring, and easy-to-use guide.

With this book, you'll learn how to

• Live a more deliberate, more purposeful, more satisfying life
• Say goodbye to the constant guilt of not measuring up by embracing your personal mothering style
• Enjoy your children more and feel close to your husband again

The authors reveal their own unvarnished turning points, share stories they've gathered from the trenches, and present eye-opening research to show how a little selfishness can bring a whole new sense of purpose and energy to stressed-out modern mothers.