Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence | 
 enlarge | Authors: Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  194 reviews
Sales Rank: 3560
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0140286780
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.02401
EAN: 9780140286786
ASIN: 0140286780
Publication Date: September 1, 1999
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There's a big difference between "making a living" and making a life. Do you spend more than you earn? Does making a living feel more like making a dying? Do you dislike your job but can't afford to leave it? Is money fragmenting your time, your relationships with family and friends? If so, Your Money or Your Life is for you. From this inspiring book, learn how to - get out of debt and develop savings
- reorder material priorities and live well for less
- resolve inner conflicts between values and lifestyles
- convert problems into opportunities to learn new skills
- attain a wholeness of livelihood and lifestyle
- save the planet while saving money
- and much more
Book Description
Find financial freedom in the new millennium with a new edition of the life-changing national bestseller
More than three-quarters of a million people everywhere, from all walks of life, have found the keys to gaining control of their money--and their lives--in this comprehensive and revolutionary book on money management. Considered the bible of the voluntary simplicity movement, Your Money or Your Life is now updated with a new Preface, Index, and Resource list to help you put the program into practice. This simple, nine-step program shows you how to:
* get out of debt and develop savings
* slow down the work-and-spend treadmill
* make values-based decisions about your spending
* save the planet while saving money
* Over three years on the Business Week bestseller list
* Your Money or Your Life made all major bestseller lists in hardcover and paperback, including the New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, Publishers Weekly, and Washington Post
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 I loved this book! August 5, 2008
The other reviewers have pretty much covered the content of this book. Admittedly I haven't used all of the ideas, however now I have become very aware of how I spend my money and how many hours I have to work to purchase the ever evasive 'thing I must have or die'. Totally amazing! I now realize how much stuff I really have that I really do not need. Keeping these things actually cost you more by using up your time and energy to maintain 'your stuff'
Once you can get this change in your thinking, it's amazing how much more money you really have.
Before I purchased this book, I found it referenced and recommended all over the place. That must mean something.
If you're still not sure about it, get it from the library. (Yet another of their money saving ideas.)
xox
MEF
 OK August 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok book on retirement planning. But, like all such books, it pays to be rich before you retire. Nothing of use for us "poor" souls.
Great book! July 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Really is a wonderful read that puts your life into control of how you want it.
How to learn how to say Enough July 20, 2008
Out of all the financial books I've read so far, I believe this one is the one that speaks most to my values and beliefs about finances. Instead of preaching about how you can have it all, the authors discuss the value of frugality and recognizing when a person has enough. The authors have nine steps in their program and each step is designed to help you make your way to financial independence and intelligence by asking yourself what your really getting out of your spending habits, and also the way you live your life. The authors posit that it is entirely possible to retire earlier in your life provided you know how to live frugally, and I believe this is entirely the case. I've already been modifying how I spend money, thinking carefully about what the benefit is of buying a particular item, as well as what my overall goals are. I'm already noticing some effects and I'm willing to continue committing to a program that ultimately could lead to satisfaction in terms of having enough time to really do everything that I want to do.
Get a Life! July 7, 2008
From its definition of money--life energy--to its activities, Joe Dominquez and Vicki Robin's Your Money or Your Life is the book that puts things in perspective, so that anyone who picks it up knows what he or she can to do create a powerful life. My son balked when he first picked up the book because it is labeled "Self help." After reading a few pages, he decided the book was much more. The exercises reinforce the overall theme--because it is a theme that permeates the book--you have to know what it means to live to have a life! In addition, the book introduces its readers to a list of organizations with an abundance of resources, including a variety of study guides created for use with students, associates, and church groups. I recommend reading Your Money or Your Life several times and sharing it with family and friends.
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