Book Review: It Is Only Money

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It is only money and it grows on trees, according to Cara MacMillan. I read many articles daily and quite a few books every month. Occasionally, I am also sent new book material and manuscripts for review.  I have turned down such requests largely because of time constraints.  But this one was interesting and I wanted to share with you all.

Among the many books about money, Cara MacMillan takes a rather unique route to exploring the attitudes about money among a diverse group of school children. I found this setting interesting.  Through the eyes of kids who come from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds, she explores how our attitudes about money are formed very early in life and are heavily influenced by our family, religion and communities we most identify with.  Sound familiar?

While there are many similarities about money – especially the emphasis on charity – across the world’s many faiths and cultures, there are also significant differences.   These differences exist even within the same country.   This explains partly, why every country has a rather familiar bell curve of people on the money success scale.

If you have right attitudes about money and its principles, then it doesn’t matter if you are in India or Indiana, whether you identify yourself as a Christian or Muslim, and whether you identify culturally with America or Armenia.  You are likely to reach financial success in any of those countries and within any cultural and religious boundaries.  It is interesting to see young children voice those formative beliefs about money.   The later chapters offer a simple, and yet practical, guide to taking responsible decisions through a series of pointers about earning and saving money.   While the advice may be a bit naive for seasoned investment experts, for the large number of people out there struggling with personal finance, this book will encourage you to take a little walk down your own formative early years and correct any long-held, self-limiting beliefs about money.

If you are interested how to ‘unlearn’ some of your deep-set, limiting attitudes about money, Cara MacMillan’s new book It’s Only Money will be a great addition to your library.  You can also give it to your family and friends who need to get the money basics right.  It’s available on Amazon.  

Want to get this book FREE?

The idea is nice, but the odds don't make it real.

Apparently, it is real.

Any reader who submits an original article on any topic (including your personal story) with an angle on personal finance or any of the ten factors (about 1000 words) will enter this free book giveaway contest.   You can include links to your own posts as long as they are reasonably balanced with other links and content.  Please make sure any hyperlinks in your post work, I will not be checking them.

The best submissions (3 maximum) will be published on this website, along with the authors getting a complimentary hard copy of Cara MacMillan’s book!  Given this website’s global audience, I have been told by the book agent that the free books can be shipped internationally as well, so this is open to all you readers and bloggers anywhere in the world!     

Your content must be original – you can, however, choose to republish the content on your own site or elsewhere 3 days after it appears on this website.

You can email your submissions as a Word or Text file to tenfactorialrocks – at the domain – gmail dot com.  (Sorry, I was told to write this way to thwart the spam bots).   Alternatively, you can submit your article using the site Contact page.  

The best comment on the articles published would also get the book free in PDF format.  The best comment will be decided by the article author and Mr. TFR.

This book giveaway contest will run for one month (till Sunday, November 20, 2016).  So, please submit early with your creative best!

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