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

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. (Apr.)