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Your Money or Your Life
Author Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
Format paperback, 363 pages
ISBN 0140286780
Published 1992
Publisher Penguin Books
Price $15 |
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Audience: Young adults, adults
Setting: Individual or small group with facilitator
Scope: A nine-step engaging program that takes a “whole system”
approach to integrating your life--helping you to align your relationship with
money to your life’s values and purpose.
Purpose: To transform your relationship with money--a relationship
that encompasses more than just your earning, spending, debts, and savings; it
also includes the time these functions take in your life and the satisfaction
and fulfillment that you get from your connection to family, community, and
the planet.
Summary: For most people money is a source of stress and a
controlling force in their lives. People spend the majority of their day
thinking about money (getting it and spending it) or working for it. Dominguez
and Robin have developed a unique program for changing the way people interact
with money. It's based on getting out of debt, living minimally, and moving
beyond the obsession most people have with the green stuff at one level or
another. By first considering how much of your "life energy" is
actually spent in the acquisition of money, where that money is spent (you'll
be amazed), and how your consumption affects the entire planet, you can more
comfortably re-prioritize your values, save money by living frugally (buying
used, bartering services, paying off debt), and eventually achieve financial
independence. The end result is that people can learn to live "at the
peak of the Fulfillment Curve, always having plenty but never burdened by
excess."
Contents:
- The Money Trap: The Old Road Map for Money
- Money Ain’t What it Used to Be--and Never Was
- Where Is It All Going?
- How Much is Enough? The Nature of Fulfillment
- Seeing Progress
- The American Dream - on a Shoestring
- For Love or Money: Valuing Life Energy - Work and Income
- The Crossover Point: The Pot of Gold at the End of the Wall Chart
- Now That You’ve Got It, What Are You Going to Do With It?
Tools for Teachers: Study guides and support for teachers are
available through The New Road Map Foundation/The Simple Living Network at www.simpleliving.net/ymoyl/gh-studyguides.asp.
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