Lighting the Torch: The Kinder Method(TM) of Life Planning

by George Kinder, Susan E Galvan

Each of us carries within our hearts a "dream of freedom" where lives feel fulfilled and are truly worthwhile. Financial planners offer clients the most comprehensive opportunity to discover and integrate a financial life plan that in fact melds meaning with money. No other professional can help the client unveil his or her most profound dreams and values, and then articulate a financial strategy that empowers successful implementation. The book empowers planners with the processes for connecting the client's dreams of freedom with the strategies of financial planning. It provides training in the Kinder Method(TM) of life planning and a skill set that can provide a consistent and successful process with clients, leading to that moment called "lighting the torch."

Genres: Personal Finance, Business

239 pages, Hardcover

First published October 16, 2006

About the author

Harvard-educated George Kinder revolutionized financial advice for over 30 years by training over 3,500 professionals in 30 countries in the field of financial Life Planning. He founded the Kinder Institute of Life Planning in 2003 after 30 years as a practicing financial planner and tax advisor.

His books and trainings are all about Freedom. In his most recent book, A Golden Civilization and The Map of Mindfulness (currently available on Amazon), Kinder draws on 50 years as a mindfulness practitioner, over 30 years as a mindfulness teacher, and his experience training financial advisors globally to challenge the basic concepts of economics, our understanding of democracy, of space-time, and our own hearts. His objective is to bring greater levels of Freedom everywhere.

His three books on money, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, Lighting the Torch, and Life Planning for You, are considered by many to be the seminal works in the burgeoning field of financial Life Planning. Almost twenty years after its publication, his classic The Seven Stages of Money Maturity was again featured by the Wall Street Journal. He has written one book on mindfulness, Transforming Suffering into Wisdom, as well as a book of photography and poetry, A Song for Hana.

Kinder currently resides in Massachusetts and spends several months per year in London and Hana, Hawaii. Now living out his own Life Plan, Kinder spends much of his free time delivering speeches on Life Planning, teaching meditation classes, and working on creative projects. During his "Covid Summer," Kinder wrote and recorded an album of Protest Songs with his daughter (available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music), and has been working on his next book: a collection of poetry and photography about the present moment and inspired by time spent at his home on Spectacle Pond.