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Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century |  | Authors: Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Edition: Rev Upd
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0143115766
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.02401
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Publication Date: December 10, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
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
Product Description
"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management" (Los Angeles Times(on the first edition))
In an age of great economic uncertainty when everyone is concerned about money and how they spend what they have, this new edition of the bestselling Your Money or Your Life is an essential read. With updated resources, an easy-to-use index, and anecdotes and examples particularly relevant today-it tells you how to:
get out of debt and develop savings
reorder material priorities and live well for less
resolve inner conflicts between values and lifestyle
save the planet while saving money
and much more
In Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin shows readers how to gain control of their money and finally begin to make a life, rather than just make a living.
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 It's all about choices September 6, 2010
Pamela S. Beason (Bellingham, WA USA)
I really identify with this book. Most of us who were not born wealthy have to make compromises to achieve the sort of life we want. This book helps you see clearly the real financial and life choices you have. It's all about living, not about money.
Pamela S. Beason
Author of SAVE Your Money, Your Sanity, and Our Planet; 5 Lessons and 125 Tips for a Thrifty Lifestyle
My favorite personal finance book! August 11, 2010
Steve
This is one of the best personal finance books you will ever read as it focuses on "the roots, not the fruits" of people's relationships with money. This book will empower you by offering a new, money-work-life conscious paradigm which is so radically different than the work-spend treadmill that is perpetuated by many in this country as the pursuit of happiness vis-à-vis material accumulation over human connection, contribution and meaning.
Even if you don't perform all of the author's suggested exercises, you will get still get a profound sense of the points being made.
All and all, this is a fantastic, highly recommended read and now has a place amongst my all time favorites.
Finally, if anyone is interested in the whole "getting off the hedonic treadmill thing", I would highly recommend reading the following letter from ancient Roman philosopher Seneca which I've hyperlinked here:
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Thanks!
 Not as good as all the hype August 7, 2010
Sofia B (Plymouth, MN)
I have heard a lot about this book on personal finance websites and blogs. I also personally know somebody who changed his whole life in response to this book. So I had high hopes and expectations for this book.
I was a little disappointed because I had such high hopes, and the book had very little new advice. I guess I expected it to transform my life, and it changed NOTHING in my life. The one new thing I got out of this book- I'll save you the money- track your spending in a visible way so you can feel a sense of progress as you pay off debt and increase your income/expenses ratio. The authors recommend a huge wall chart.
Wisdom Literature July 22, 2010
Andy K (Adelaide, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't worked the 9 Steps yet, although I hope to soon. So I can't comment on the program authoritatively.
I first borrowed this book, then bought it. It speaks to the frustration and uncertainty of the times and markets precisely, and it presents a side of the American psyche which is homely, gentle, prudence, frugal and wise.
I think it qualifies as "wisdom literature". Common sense is not common, and this book is full of down to earth wisdom.
I take what I need and leave the rest. The mother earth stuff is nice and I ignore it because it's not my bag. The 3 questions are my kind of thing, and I use and appreciate them.
The core of the program is intensely practical - I highly recommend it.
I can't think of another book that promises wholistic happiness-success in such a short time and backs it up with so much pragmatism and warmth. I think it is an exciting work, and worth a look into.
 disappointed, mostly with the quality of the printing June 5, 2010
shutter girl
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was excited to go through this book after reading such favorable reviews. Unfortunately I felt distracted from the content by the terrible quality of the book printing. "Pulp fiction" at its worst. The pages were thin and gray, very much like newsprint, and the ink was spotty. The type was pretty tight like they were trying so hard to use fewer pages to print to save money.... basically, I wasn't able to get into the book because of the actual materials. I'm a pretty design-sensitive person but I have never had that experience with a book before. Weird!
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