A highly engaging and comprehensive guide for managing life's financial issues to gain power, build wealth, and ensure peace of mind. Debt management, tax planning, college tuition, financing a car purchase, buying or selling a home, caring for elderly parents, preparing for a retirement. These are the gremlins with which we grapple throughout our lives, Money Matters: Essential Tips and Tools for Building Financial Peace of Mind is designed to help you find answers to your financial questions--many of which have simple answers that you can't always see because you are bogged down, hard at work, and just trying to make it to the next paycheck. Money Matters features practical and imaginative ideas for investing, spending, and saving with brief, real-life stories from the author's years of working with people and money. Each section of the book focuses on money issues that matter, such as how to stretch your earnings, meet large medical expenses, pay less tax, provide for your children's education or how to handle your debt. Money Matters is not a textbook on investing or retirement; it is a powerful guide that answers real questions by real people.