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

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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!!!

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.

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.

Marc Allen's Ten Percent Solution, and it's larger counterpart "Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success" inspired me to start giving as corporate philosophy and responsibility. This book and Paul Newman's company inspired me to provide an online directory of these "ten percent" businesses called CauseShopper.

I highly recommend the book, and I hope that you will try these practices in your business.

John Huff, President
CauseShopper

This book was a great, easy read about the basics of simplicity with your life and finances. I would recommend reading it with other financial books to give you a well-rounded balance of ideas regarding money.