THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON – GEORGE S. CLASON

Desert stories are absolutely fascinating. What makes this book stand out from its counterparts is that it is a financial/money management book without heavy principles. It has practicability and effortlessness. The ways to financial security is story told. How did the richest man in Babylon acquire and sustain wealth? How the needy followed the advice to become rich personally is something this book speaks about.

One may think what is so different in first paying ourselves ten percent of monthly (regular) income (investing this in good/sound projects that can multiply the money), spending within seventy present of our earning and then clearing off debts from remaining twenty percent? It may sound very well know and too easy yet it is a powerful method. The regularity and cumulative effect that it creates and a clear cut structure it leads to is what makes the difference to our monetary situation also to standard of living.

 The five people you meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

While there are high talks on the concepts of heaven and hell, Mitch in his yet another uniquely imaginative book speaks of heaven to be a place to understand one’s life lived on earth. The people who went ahead of us, tell us why they were present in our life and how it impacted us and in turn how we converged with others around … a place where we understand why we felt a certain way and that in order to go ahead we no longer need to feel it (anger, fear, hatred…) – “That’s what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”

These five people met in heaven can be considered five major events in our life never to leave it same again. Nothing happens in life without a reason, a place named hell doesn’t exist to punish us! And for Heaven, it is looked through different lenses here.