By way of a first post, we're simply letting you get a taste for the book that goes on pre-sale on 22nd September and full release on 5th October, by reproducing the introduction.

How To Be Rich and Happy - An Introduction

Congratulations on taking one of the most important steps you’ve ever taken in your life. You’ve decided to decide. You’ve chosen to choose versus live a life that others chose for you. That right there makes you one of a select group of people.

If you read the information in this book, and apply it in your life, you will be part of an even more exclusive group- those who are Rich and Happy.

As you embark on this adventure, you may be wondering how this book came to be. How and why do a best selling inspirational author who’s works are in nineteen languages (John) and a renegade life coach with one of the most left field and successful life coaching blogs on the Internet (Tim) pair up to write a book called “How to be Rich and Happy?”

The answer is actually pretty straight forward. Part of it you’ll find in the personal story described in the the opening chapter. That will explain our own motivation for discovering the formula for being Rich and Happy. The other part, which is why write the book now, is simply because we listened to what people are asking for.

We have been friends for a number of years. A friendship that began because although we operate in different arenas (Tim in life coaching and online blogging and John as an author and speaker) and we have very different styles (Tim relies heavily on a very English sense of humor to get his message across whereas John is more serious and inspirational) we have a similar life purpose, which is to help people.

And when we would get together for a round of golf, or grab lunch, and discuss how things were going and what people were telling us, it kept coming back to the same answer- people are really struggling. We knew from our interactions with them, and through our own life experiences, that even if they couldn’t actually name it, what they wanted was to be Rich and Happy.

Tim was seeing it through his work with individual clients, and via his blog, and John was seeing it at his events when he was speaking to large audiences.

So when people asked us what we were working on next, we started telling them that we were working on a book called “How to be Rich and Happy.” And literally every single person responded with something close to “That’s the book I need.”

If you are familiar with John’s previous books; The Why Cafe, Life Safari, and The Big Five for Life- Leadership’s Greatest Secret, this will be a very different type of read. Those works are fictional stories with inspirational messages.

This is a non-fiction, tell it like it is book. That said, the underlying focus is still the same - to help people live the life they want live.

Although the book is written by both of us, for ease of reading, you’ll see that it reads as if there is just one author. The word “I” is the collective I of both of us. Think of us as science experiment gone mad, where two people’s brains and life experiences have been merged into one. Or, just realize that it is a heck of a lot easier to explain the stories and material the way it’s written than for us to keep clarifying who is saying what.

And now, let’s move you toward what you want and deserve- to be Rich and Happy.

John and Tim