Right now we all want to know what to DO about our money lives – myself included. First we need to BE with our money lives, though, and let the doing come from clarity rather than fear. Every day I hear another story about someone …
Three years ago I wrote a chapter for a book called Hope Beneath our Feet, a compilation of essays in response to the editor, Martin Keogh’s, question: If we’re looking down the barrel of environmental disaster, how then shall we live our lives? As I …
Want to be moved and inspired? Please take 2 minutes and read the transcript below of Grace Lee Boggs on Democracy Now yesterday in which she speaks with Amy Goodman about themes I’ve also lived and taught for years – that as we let go …
Are you protecting what you have rather than reaching for something greater? Are projects that were once delightful and interesting now an effort? Are you wondering if it is just you? If you’ve lost your groove? Well, I’m here to say that it ain’t you, …
I just found this comment on Kathy Masarie’s website. I feel privileged to carry a teaching that can make this kind of difference: Back in the day, I found incredible solace, wisdom, and support in the book, Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to …
I just read a super inspiring article by Michael Sammet that wraps resilience, resourcefulness and empathy together in one narrative of creative, collaborative adaptation to the BIG changes upon us. Just my cup of tea, so to speak, since I just finished teaching “resourcefulness” as …
The Your Money or Your Life Teleclass is rounding the bend into the final week and our “lesson” last week was resourcefulness. I prepared a list called “10 Ways to Skin a Cat” that merits a blog post. I know, the image of “skinning cats” …
Something in the human brain snaps to attention in the presence of counting. I discovered this at one of my early public talks. Someone asked a question and I said, “There are three things to know about that.” Everyone put a “1.” in their notebooks …
Has it ever occurred to you, as it just did to me, that there is a similarity between oil for our cars and oil in our diets? We tend to over-consume both. Even if our butts get fatter or our wallets get thinner, we just …
Good question. Even though I’m hosting the Healthy Money Summit (starts Monday. Sign up for free. Listen live or later via recording) I’m not sure what it will take to have a healthy economy, healthy financial system or healthy currency. In view of how destructive …