Here are the 9 principles I elaborate in the programs I taught, and that I will teach again to those people who truly want to share the multi-dimensional transformational approach to the material world embodied in Your Money or Your Life.
9 PRINCIPLES FOR FINANCIAL FREEDOM
Purpose – what is my life about?
Passion – what drives me, compels me, allures me, arouses me. Where’s the energy?
Pleasure – what is happiness? What makes me happy? Really
Pattern – what does how I invest myself tell me about myself?
Presence – awareness in the moment of what’s going on. Grace in the midst of infinite daily choices.
Proportion – – keeping all elements in right relationship one to another. Allowing your life to right size in the context of time. Mastering boundary.
Play – making and remaking “the rules”: how else can I do this? Where else might I find it? Who else can help? What else can it be?
Power – that which comes from living at enough, being the one in your life who chooses and acts and takes responsibility.
Peace – contentment, satisfaction, at ease, no striving, nothing needs to change for me to be happy
Contemplate them as you might your breath as it flows into and out of your nose. What is my purpose? What motivates me? When have I been truly happy? What does how I spend my time reveal about who I am? Am I here and now or somewhere else as I go through my daily life? Are the parts of my life in harmony, that Goldilocks sweetness of “not too much, not too little, just enough” of work and play and love and leisure? Am I creating or imitating in my life? Where am I holding back from my full participation? And ultimately, am I at peace with myself and the world?
These are very big questions. The wonderful thing about the tools in Your Money or Your Life is that they turn your attention to such big ideas in your small daily acts of managing your money!