Product 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1744 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Amazon.com
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

From Publishers Weekly
Based on their West Coast self-help seminars, Dominguez and Robin here map a route to financial security through a relaxed, prudent and environmentally-friendly way of life. Systemically analyzing one's overspending, as in the case histories cited, and calculating the "life-energy" cost (time, expenses, stress) of a competitive career, the authors maintain, can lead to reduced occupational expectations and to surprisingly large economies effected by pre-pricing food, clothing, transportation, loan rates, heath care and so on. Resulting surpluses, invested in Treasury bonds, will yield compound income eventually covering the reduced expenses. This "crossover point" brings financial independence, according to the authors, and freedom to choose one's work for greater personal satisfaction and the "commonweal." Some readers may be put off by the finicky detail and intense tone of the course, but few will fail to find here new insight and encouragement.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Think environmentally, live frugally, and don't be surprised if your income shoots off the top of the chart that Dominguez, a former Wall Street financial analyst, and Robin ask you to put up on your wall. With this promise, they promote the possibility and goal of having "enough" money in your life. The wall chart of income, expenses, and investments is one of several very detailed records they mandate to support your attitude change. Others are a record of lifetime income and computation of your real working income, translated into "hours of life energy." It would be hard to carry out their nine-step program without frequent recourse to the book for continued inspiration and implementing detail. A marginal purchase for most libraries.
-Justine Roberts, Mill Valley, Cal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Great book!
Really is a wonderful read that puts your life into control of how you want it.

How to learn how to say Enough

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!
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.