Let Money Chase You!: Smart and Simple Ways to Build Lasting Wealth | Practical Steps to Financial Security | Small Habits for Better Financial Planning ... for beginners, financial planning)
What if, instead of chasing money, you made money chase you?
Life is unpredictable. A job loss, a medical emergency, or even a sudden expense can shake up the most organised life. We may not control what comes our way, but we can control how financially prepared we are.
In Let Money Chase You!, bestselling author Indrazith Shantharaj breaks down the basics of building a strong financial foundation without jargon, without pressure, and without the false promise of overnight wealth. Instead of complicated gimmicks, it focuses on simple, doable steps by teaching you how to create an emergency fund, save consistently, stay on top of your EMIs, and understand the fundamentals of investing.
• Packed with real-life examples and practical insights, this book helps you shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to money. • If you want a future where you feel secure, confident, and in control, this is where your journey begins. • Stop running after money. Start attracting it.
Author of a few Best Sellers, "How to Make Money with Breakout Trading", "Mind Markets and Money," and "Trade and Grow Rich," Indrazith Shantharaj is an intraday trader who trades mostly in indices in Indian markets.
He uses the concepts of Market Profile intensively, with tailor-made systems for Indian market conditions.
Apart from trading, he spends his free time in travel and adventure. He also believes extensively on using the power of MIND and is a practicing spiritual sadhana.
Reading Let Money Chase You feels less like attending a finance class and more like sitting across the table from someone who keeps stopping every conversation to ask, "But have you really thought about this?"
The book is filled with money lessons, yet its most interesting subject is human behaviour. Why do people proudly buy things that make them poorer? Why do intelligent people spend years building careers but never build assets? Why do some see opportunities everywhere while others see only obstacles? These questions run through the entire book.
What surprised me was how often the author talks about fear. Fear of starting, fear of selling, fear of looking foolish, fear of taking responsibility for one's financial future. Beneath the discussions on investing, loans, and income streams lies a deeper argument that wealth is often limited not by circumstances but by mental habits.
The book also captures a distinctly Indian reality. The pressure to own a house early, the obsession with job security, the pride attached to visible assets, the influence of family expectations, and the belief that a higher salary automatically means financial success. The author challenges many of these assumptions, sometimes gently and sometimes quite directly.
This is not a book that offers a magical formula for becoming rich. Instead, it repeatedly points readers back to themselves. Their skills, decisions, discipline, time, and courage. In that sense, the title is slightly misleading. The book is not really about making money chase you. It is about becoming the kind of person worth chasing.
I recently picked up Let Money Chase You by Indrazith Shantharaj, and honestly, I’m really glad I did. At first, the title made me think it would be just another book focused only on earning money or becoming rich, but it turned out to be much more than that. This book is not only about money — it is about growth, mindset, learning, and making better decisions in life.
The author talks about income, profession, investments, and the habits that can help a person improve financially and personally. What I liked the most is that the book does not overwhelm readers with unrealistic advice or complicated theories. Instead, it focuses on small changes, practical habits, and simple mindset shifts that can genuinely create a big impact over time.
Another interesting part of the book was reading about the journeys and stories of billionaires, which made the lessons feel more relatable and inspiring.
I usually do not read many self-help books, but this one kept me engaged throughout. The writing is simple, motivating, and easy to understand. Overall, I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for motivation and practical life lessons.
I have read a few personal finance books before, but most of them felt distant — written for a Western context or for people already halfway there. Let Money Chase You by Indrazith Shantharaj felt like it was written for me specifically. The part about salary being the slowest path to wealth genuinely stopped me. I had never questioned it before — I just assumed working harder meant building more. This book dismantles that quietly and rebuilds your thinking around assets, income streams, and protection. The section on term insurance and emergency funds is practical without being preachy. I finished it in two sittings and went back to underline things the second time around.