Conquering Your Financial Stress:: The Five-Point Plan for Generating True Wealth [Hardcover]

Bruce Eaton (Author)

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Publication Date: April 28, 1998

Author Bruce Eaton offers a groundbreaking program to help anyone, regardless of income, eliminate the nine symptoms of financial stress and achieve a richer, more rewarding life .

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Eaton (No Experience Necessary: Make $100,000 a Year as a Stockbroker) dawdles a bit in explaining his concept of "True Wealth" and how to achieve it. Citing financial-stress symptoms?wanting a new job, inability to pay bills, spousal fights over money, and so on?he defines True Wealth as "the action-created absence of stress related to money." The key, he argues, makes money secondary to real "value" in life: family relations, friendship, community service, painting, writing or long walks, along with being engaged in work one likes, even if that means changing jobs. Of the latter, the best example Eaton provides is himself, since he threw over a stressful career on Wall Street to promote jazz concerts in Buffalo, N.Y. Here he presents the curriculum for a virtuous and contented life, much of it standard fare, helped along by an expert, detailed program for sensible investment. Author tour.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 310 pages
• Publisher: Crown Business; 1st edition (April 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812963768
• ISBN-13: 978-0812963762
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,994,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good common sense, but a little tedious in parts., September 21, 1999

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This review is from: Conquering Your Financial Stress:: The Five-Point Plan for Generating True Wealth (Hardcover)

I found this book to be full of good, common sense on how to get your life (both financial and non-financial aspects) in order by taking a value added approach. Very comforting to the reader. Some points, however, seemed to go on forever (probably because the author was trying to drive them home), so the book was a little tedious in parts. (I would say to myself, "Enough already!") Still a good read, just jump ahead when you get bored (you've probably gotten the point).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is humorous, witty and practical!, June 15, 1998

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This review is from: Conquering Your Financial Stress:: The Five-Point Plan for Generating True Wealth (Hardcover)

This book was a complete paradigm shift on the essense of money. It takes the focus off of "things" and puts the focus on things of "true value". The author shows you how to reassess what you are working so hard to achieve in comparison to the quality of your life. I really enjoyed his humor.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reduce your financial stress by concentrating on creating value, January 26, 2006

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This review is from: Conquering Your Financial Stress:: The Five-Point Plan for Generating True Wealth (Hardcover)

Money will not solve all of your problems. You are always going to have some stress in your life. But if you can reduce your financial stress, you can reduce some of the overall stress in your life. Bruce Eaton, a former Wall Street Stockbroker who now specializes on the subject of financial stress, has created a five-point plan for reducing your everyday financial stress.

1. Concentrate on creating value, not money. You create value by combining your time, energy and resources. The key is to use what you have, not to wait until you get what you think you need. Start thinking about your life as a cycle of generating, exchanging, and preserving value.
2. Get a handle on what you really need. Learn to separate the things that you need from the things that you want. Create a list of the things you need. Prioritize this list, by the items that would reduce your financial stress the most.
3. Take immediate action to meet your needs. Set objectives that work.
4. Consider what you can get for your money. Analyze the function, quality, enhancements and image of purchases you need to make. Then ask yourself: "What would this enable me to do, and what can't I do without it?" Are there other things you already have that can fulfill these same functions? Exchange value wisely.
5. Preserve Value. You must decide and commit to saving. Be realistic in determining what percentage you will save. Identify specific savings objectives and prioritize them to reduce your stress. Take a cautious approach to investing.