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A lot of books pass through my hands every year. And the ones that impress me are rarer than chicken molars.<\/p>\n

However, Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Mark and Lisa Scandrette took me by surprise.<\/p>\n

This is an excellent<\/em> piece of writing. And it impressed me.<\/p>\n

Free<\/a> is not your typical book. It\u2019s like a workbook for your life. An assessment test. A life plan. A practical manual for reviewing the major aspects of your life and reassessing them.<\/p>\n

There are two things that are perhaps the best gauges of your heart and what you really<\/em> believe: Your wallet<\/em> and your calendar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

How you spend your time and your money speaks volumes about you and your character. And that\u2019s precisely where Free<\/a> focuses its laser beam.<\/p>\n

The book is written in a casual style. Yet it\u2019s not too casual. And the way the chapters are divided makes it easy to digest.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never created a life plan, you should. Soon. And this is the book that you would begin with.<\/p>\n

The chapters contain great insights, stories, practical assessments, tests, and questions so that you could easily navigate the major parts of your life and evaluate them.<\/p>\n

The stories are helpful also. The authors provide great ideas to incorporate. And those ideas come straight from their own experiences.<\/p>\n

Impressively, Mark and his wife live debt-free in one of the most expensive cities in the world. So they aren\u2019t arm-chair philosophers.<\/p>\n

Some of the chapters deal with the following:<\/p>\n