The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and Our World [Paperback]

Marc Allen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2002

This potentially life-changing book challenges readers to find solutions to the problems that confront them — individually and globally. Marc Allen offers simple, doable solutions to both personal financial problems and global problems. Key to many of these solutions is both saving and giving away 10 percent of one’s income, also known as “tithing.” By taking the kinds of actions recommended in this book, individuals cannot only achieve financial security but can contribute substantially to a better world.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Allen, an entrepreneur, speaker and founder of New World Library, desires to share an important message: many individual and societal woes would be eliminated if people followed two old-fashioned traditions: saving 10% of their income until they reach financial independence and giving away 10% of their income to charitable or social organizations. He tells this message anecdotally in this small tome. Feeling depressed over his work and his financial troubles, Allen visited an elderly friend, Bernie, who took him for a walk. Bernie described how people could transform their lives by following these two simple rules. Although Allen was initially skeptical, he began to take this advice and soon found himself far more successful (financially and emotionally) than he ever expected. Allen's ideas, especially about tithing, are not new and are fairly sound financial advice but hardly guarantee a secure or wealthy future. Given the uncertain economic times and increasing concern with traditional values, Allen's message will likely appeal to many. However, this inspirational book is not prescriptive enough for those in true financial distress.
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Review

Short and sweetly revolutionary, this book plants a handful of potent seeds.... -- NAPRA ReView, March/April 2002

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: New World Library (March 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577312139
• ISBN-13: 978-1577312130
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,122,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marc Allen is an internationally renowned author, the president and publisher of New World Library, and an accomplished musician and composer.

His most recent book, The Greatest Secret of All, guides the reader in unraveling the secrets of happiness, inner peace, ease, and fulfillment. Bestselling author Gay Hendricks says of The Greatest Secret of All: "It is a wonderful contribution to humanity. It gives us the key to a life well lived."

Marc's most popular book is The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Creating the Life of Your Dreams. It is an entire course, filled with keys to success. Over the years, he has written and published several other books, including Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success, which brought his principles to those in the business world, and A Visionary Life, which remains one of the best books ever written on personal fulfillment. He has also published The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and the World, and produced a popular audio CD, Stress Reduction and Creative Meditations. In recent years he has expanded his reach to deliver his message through a variety of digital formats.

Marc co-founded New World Library with Shakti Gawain in 1977 and has guided the company from a small start-up with no capital to its current position as one of the leading independent publishers in the country. Along the way, he has published many books that have changed lives, including Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now, Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, and Shakti Gawain's Creative Visualization.

Marc is a well-known musician and composer as well, having produced five albums of music for his label Watercourse Media. His latest composition is a soaring, orchestral work called Awakening, and his first instrumental album, Breathe, has now sold nearly 100,000 copies and has been named a "New Age Golden Oldie" by NAPRA.

Marc has discovered, through trial and error, a proven set of principles and simple practices that can help each of us live the life of our dreams, doing what we love to do, while adhering to compassionate, conscious values. His books, audios, and seminars -- and the powerful books he has published -- have been life-changing experiences for millions of people.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 100% Praise for The 10% Solution, June 5, 2006

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RAYT721 (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and Our World (Paperback)

I enjoy non-fiction. I especially like books on business, finance, self-help, and whatever I can learn from to better myself. I especially enjoy easy to read books and this is one of them. I read the book in just a few hours compared to books that take days. This is a book for real people with a normal vocabulary and average intelligence, like myself. The author asks the reader to dismiss many of the negative thoughts that we've all been given over the years. The book explains how just a 10% saving commitment from income (regardless of your income) can multiply into some serious savings for the future. The formula on page 48 is startling as to how money compounds, whether you have $100 a month or $1000 a month available. Start TODAY!!! Any book that teaches (or reinforces) ideas or lessons is worth its cost. Learn how affirmations can turn your dreams into realities and how only 10% of your income can be used to build a better life for yourself and for others. Don't just put this on your wish list... Buy It Now!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, concise outline of New Age personal finance, November 4, 2005

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Jonathan Betz-Zall "Book Bopper" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and Our World (Paperback)

Like many other self-improvement books, the author draws life lessons from his own experience, in this case facing down the financial pressures many middle class Americans feel and finding meaning in the solutions he found to deal with them. In a nutshell, he advocates saving ten percent of one's earnings, donating another ten percent, and becoming socially active. Numerous other authors have prescribed these remedies, most notably Dominguez and Robin in "Your Money or Your Life", but none with such economy of language. This is great inspiration for those just starting to think about getting out of their ruts, particularly for those with the imagination to apply the ideas in their own situation without specific guidance from the author.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Place Dreams are Born, June 21, 2002

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Thomas Chavez (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and Our World (Paperback)

In the Steven Spielberg film Artificial Intelligence, there is twice the reference to "the place dreams are born". The Ten Percent Solution is that kind of place, a place in our heart and mind, a place of genuine goodness, simple honesty -these days called "transparency"-and healthy idealism. It contains practical keys to personal fulfillment and, if widely applied, to planetary paradise. These truths may be age old, from the richest of spiritual traditions, but they are one hundred percent applicable now, and desperately needed. We need only read and put into practice this little masterpiece.