Personal Finance for a Higher Purpose
by John Ubele

This is a short book based on an unconventional way of thinking. Most books on personal finance run somewhere between two and three hundred pages in length. I've read a lot of them and there's only just so much that you're going to get from just one book, so what the authors tend to do is fill it up the pages with a bunch of stuff that really doesn't benefit the reader. This book is very condensed. Everything that's in it is something that the reader will find helpful. Whether it's about saving money, starting a garden, writing a budget, becoming politically active or running for office, everything's in there in a condensed form and it's powerful.

One of the book's main goals is to show people how to become more fiscally disciplined, so that they're not as dependent on the system -- because I think that's one thing that holds many great people back from becoming politically active. They know that if they become active -- if their name appears in the newspaper or they appear on television or speak on the radio -- that they'll lose their job. So many people who could give so much to our cause let that hold them back; that's what needs to stop. At the very least it should give them a good foundation of knowledge about how to write a budget and start budgeting their money. That's the most important aspect of personal finance, but fiscally disciplining oneself to follow a budget is the hard part. People these days are caught up in "buy now, pay later" mentality and they don't realize how detrimental it is to their financial well-being. Besides the information on writing a budget and sticking to it, the book has a lot of other ideas and tips, not only about how to save money and about generating extra income, but also there's an entire section on becoming politically active.