The Practical Guide To Making More Money in 2025

In Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, self-made millionaire T. Harv Eker reveals the difference between the way rich people and poor people think and feel about money. Eker argues that these thoughts and beliefs impel you to take actions that either move you toward financial success or away from it—if you’re not happy with the state of your finances, it’s because your unproductive thoughts and beliefs about money hold you back from the financial success that you want. According to Eker, you can dramatically improve your finances by taking conscious control of your thoughts and adopting a rich attitude that will inspire you to take new actions that lead to your financial success.

In this guide, we’ve reorganized Eker’s ideas into three distinct parts that walk you through his philosophy and give you actionable advice on developing a richer mindset. Additionally, we include research underlying why people often fail to meet their financial goals and actionable ideas from other self-improvement authors, financial authors, and psychologists.

Jack Canfield struck gold as a co-author of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, but it took years for him to achieve success. In The Success Principles, he details 67 principles to help anyone achieve their goals and dreams, based on his study and interviews with hundreds of successful people. The basic formula for success is to identify what you want, know that you deserve to have it, and use the book’s principles to get you there.

The book's Principles include taking responsibility for your life, setting goals and visualizing success, facing your fears, forgiving others so you can move forward, asking for and graciously receiving feedback, and appreciating your successes.

Most of us assume financial success depends on education and intelligence. But in The Psychology of Money, finance expert Morgan Housel presents an alternate hypothesis: The key to financial success lies in understanding human behavior. Housel posits that when you understand how emotions and beliefs influence your financial decisions, you’ll make better financial decisions.

In this guide, we compare Housel’s advice with that of other finance experts and supplement his ideas with concrete recommendations. You’ll learn why people fail to achieve financial success and what’s behind your desire for money. You’ll also learn what to include in a financial strategy, how to create one you can follow for decades, how to follow it through those decades—and how to pay attention to the information you need to do so.

We all have things we want to accomplish in life, and we all want to be a success in our professional endeavors. We set annual goals, but after a year, we’re no closer to our goals than before. There’s too much time in a year to focus properly on the necessary tasks, and there are other responsibilities and distractions that hinder our productivity. The 12 Week Year will teach you how to remove those barriers to success. When you work toward goals 12 weeks at a time, you’re better able to see the steps required to achieve them and feel a greater sense of urgency to accomplish them. The 12-week year will help you succeed at achieving your dreams and grow your business to great heights.

What if the secret to success isn’t working harder but thinking bigger? In 10x Is Easier Than 2x, Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy argue that 10x growth is easier and more rewarding to pursue than 2x growth. They explain that, unlike 2x growth, 10x growth transforms how you approach work and life, forcing you to focus on what matters most, leverage your strengths, and think creatively to find new opportunities.

In this guide, we’ll explore the transformative power of pursuing 10x growth and practical strategies to achieve this exponential growth in your career, business, or personal life. We’ll look at how to focus your efforts, follow your true desires, and create self-running systems that drive big results. Along the way, we’ll compare Sullivan and Hardy’s approach with ideas from other self-improvement and business experts.

Everyone dreams of achieving extraordinary things. However, Matthew Dicks argues that most of us end up being mediocre because we see our goals as abstract and distant—things we might be able to achieve at some point, but not right now. This mindset makes us delay taking action toward our goals, and consequently, we never reach them. In Someday Is Today, Dicks argues that achieving your dreams and overcoming mediocrity is possible, but only if you start acting now.

This guide will explore Dicks’s tips for accomplishing extraordinary things. We’ll discuss how to maximize your time, efficiency, productivity, and creative potential so you can make the most of your life and become as successful as possible, as soon as possible. In our commentary, we’ll supplement Dicks’s recommendations with input from other productivity and creativity experts like Brené Brown (Daring Greatly) and Tiago Forte (Building a Second Brain).

Do you ever feel financially stuck, unable to make enough money to live the life you want? Do you feel like a lack of money is holding you back from reaching your goals? According to Jen Sincero in You Are a Badass at Making Money, the key to breaking out of a financial rut is changing the way you think about money. She argues that by ridding yourself of underlying, limiting beliefs about money, identifying your aspirations, and trusting in the universe, you can become wealthy enough to live the life that reflects your best, most authentic self.

In this guide, we’ll discuss Sincero’s advice on identifying your unconscious beliefs about money and thinking more optimistically about your finances. In our commentary, we’ll explore some financial strategies you can use to shift your mindset around money, along with some alternative methods for achieving financial success.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the best-selling financial books in history, selling over 35 million copies. The premise: when growing up, author Robert Kiyosaki had two dads advising him: 1) a Stanford-educated PhD who followed traditional career thinking and was financially illiterate (the Poor Dad, his biological father); 2) a high school dropout who built a business empire employing thousands (the Rich Dad, his best friend’s father).

The two dads are a parable for two different approaches to wealth: Poor Dad recommends getting a secure job with good benefits and retiring with a pension. Rich Dad recommends amassing assets that make money for you, becoming financially literate, and practicing independent thinking.

In this book, learn how to achieve financial independence, why it’s a terrible idea to see your home as your biggest investment, and how to overcome the biggest mental blocks to becoming wealthy.