Beautiful Money: The 4-Week Total Wealth Makeover

Readers eager to join the wealth bandwagon should flock to this well-written guide, which lays out a four-week roadmap for creating “holistic wealth.” Week one is all about “clearing out the clutter” in your mind and adjusting your attitude about wealth, author Jacobs writes. Readers need to be “crystal clear” about their personal desires. The quick attitude quiz and prosperity scorecard help readers divine their inner feelings toward wealth. Some readers may be put off by Jacobs’s suggestions to ask the universe for money or “let go and let God,” but the book’s unfailing optimism and positive results (both the author’s and her clients’) will undoubtedly persuade many readers to persevere. “Beautiful Money Tips” are scattered everywhere, on topics such as how to calmly approach financial decisions and why disconnecting from phones or the Internet is a positive step. Readers familiar with the self-help genre will recognize key tools such as vision boards, affirmations, mantras, and the emphasis on written goals. The author is so confident that readers will attract wealth that at the end there is a “Don’t Become a Money Monster!” warning with key indicators in case readers take their success too far and become cruel—but wealthy—success stories.[em] (Jan.) [/em]