Ken Honda’s new novel, “True Wealth,” tells the story of Kei, who at age 20 inherits a series of nine letters covering 80 years of his grandfather’s learned wisdom. Each unveils an important lesson about what’s most important in life — achieving a joyous and successful life beyond material wealth. Join Kei as he journeys to discover his grandfather's profound insights on the essence of true wealth.

“True Wealth” contains personal growth lessons about failure, determination, and the balance between material wealth and genuine abundance. Delve into the book’s powerful lessons and how we can apply them to bring more joy to our money, work and relationships.

Intuition is like a navigation system that guides us to happiness. Learn how to tell the difference between intuition and thoughts and develop the skill of interpreting what your intuition is telling you so that you can make bold decisions and take action.

Your future is not merely an extension of the present, but exists in a different dimension that you can influence with each decision you make. “Leveling up to the next dimension” begins by deciding to seek your best possible future. Then use your imagination to envision the best relationships, friendships, education, work, partnerships, and financial situation you can. Ken shares an additional crucial step you must take to make your decisions become reality.

Many people fail to make the best out of their life decisions. They miss their chance for an extraordinary life while waiting for reassuring choices to appear. From “True Wealth,” Ken shares three ways to cope with anxiety and fear around change so you can stop wasting time and unleash the energy of your decisions.

Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, says “True Wealth” contains lessons “we all wish we were taught when we were little.” New York Times bestselling author Marci Shimoff calls it “the story I wish I had read when I was growing up,” and Dr. Ivan Misner says it contains “everything I would want to pass on to the next generations.” Explore how young people, and people of all ages, can find more freedom, joy, and purpose through Ken’s teachings.

“True Wealth” contains new lessons on success and abundance from the author of the international bestseller Happy Money, founded on Zen principles and delivered in a spirit of compassion, freedom, and joy. Find out what Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy can teach us about transforming our relationship with money, others, and ourselves.

All the money circulated with love, care, and friendship is Happy Money. Happy Money makes people smile and feel loved and cared for deeply. It is in many ways an active form of love. Money circulated in frustration, anger, sadness, and despair is Unhappy Money. This kind of money makes people stressed, desperate, aggravated, depressed, and sometimes violent. It deprives people of their dignity, self-esteem, and gentleness of heart. Whenever you receive and spend money and you do so with negative energy, it becomes Unhappy Money.

Happy Money and Unhappy Money: What kind of money are you carrying around? Even though you can’t see the smile of the money physically, you can pretty much guess if it is smiling or not. If you are happy with your work and life, your money is more than likely smiling in your wallet. If you hate your job and always complain about something in your life, your money is crying or angry in your wallet.

People who live “in love” with money are doing what they love and make enough money. They may not be rich, but they truly have everything they need. They put what they love in the center of their life. They are financially comfortable, so they don’t feel stress around money in everyday life.

There is always an emotional drive behind wanting money. But if we become disconnected from the underlying emotions, we can get stuck in a cycle of trying to make money without understanding what we really need.

Ken invites people to examine their beliefs about money, and how they developed those beliefs. By exploring whatever feelings you project onto money, you can recognize your own emotional baggage. If you can do that, you can see money clearly.

If money were a person, there are several personas it could have. What would your money’s personification be? Is that person gentle and kind, or mean and unfriendly?

The happiest way to receive wealth and abundance in your career is by doing something that brings you joy. When you combine this with an expression of your unique gifts, you can create a one-of-a-kind brand and even start your own business in a way that transforms the energy of support into Happy Money, too.

We all understand concrete assets like cars, homes, and the things we own, but there is another type of asset which is essential to our abundance and happiness, called “Invisible Assets.” This includes our relationships, health, experience, wisdom, and skills. Our emotional assets and debt play a huge role in the way we acknowledge and create our wealth.

Whether you are wealthy, middle class, or of lesser financial means, you may struggle with your relationship to money and be perpetually dissatisfied. In other words, there is no magic figure that equals happiness and financial satisfaction; the distance to happiness is the same for everyone, asserts Ken.

When we earn and spend money, we do it either with love or fear, says Ken. If you don’t pay much attention to your mind, you would hardly be aware that fear is what motivates your actions, whether at home, at work, in your community, or the way you behave with money.

We manifest what we believe in life. However, most of us aren’t even aware of the many negative subconscious beliefs about money that we’ve been operating under for years. These beliefs have been encoded in our blueprints and passed down to us from generation to generation. Here are six of the most common ones, and five to try out instead.

Ken Honda discusses seven unique money personality types: Compulsive Saver (Stockpiler), Compulsive Spender (Spendthrift), Compulsive Moneymaker, Indifferent-to-Money, Hippie, Saver-Splurger, and Gambler. There are combinations, too: Hoarder + Spender = the Repressed Spender; Spender + Moneymaking Addict = the Gambler; Hoarder + Spender + Moneymaking Addict = the Worrier.