7 MONEY RULES FOR LIFE® How to Take Care of Your Financial Future

Joyce Bean’s rich speaking voice makes her sound like a mother superior, a financial expert, and a supportive therapist all rolled into one. Her understated confidence focuses the listener and administers the medicine in this advice with appealing clarity and authority. The author’s wisdom, in the form of seven commonsense rules illustrated by touching personal stories, speaks to people’s deeply held beliefs and appetites regarding money. Though they unfold slowly and underwhelm at first, these are powerful ideas that will challenge habits of mind that doom people to endless financial disarray. Her advice about charitable giving, for example, focuses less on how you give than on managing greed and feelings of insufficiency. This work is an effective reminder that contentment is more important than buying everything we want. T.W. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2012]