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Vicki Robin
Vicki Robin
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The 5 C’s of Resourcefulness

Money & Life / Your Money or Your Life February 19, 2011 February 19, 2011 2 Comments

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 …

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Oil Fat & Enough

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems / Your Money or Your Life February 9, 2011 March 26, 2018 2 Comments

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 …

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Such a thing as healthy money?

Your Money or Your Life January 23, 2011 January 23, 2011

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 …

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Sign up now: Healthy Money Summit 1/24-27

Your Money or Your Life January 18, 2011 January 18, 2011

Hello all my blog readers – this needs immediate action! Many people on a conscious path find that money is one of their most challenging areas to deal with. That’s why I’m delighted to be a featured speaker for a free online event called the …

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Healthy Money Summit coming soon

Your Money or Your Life January 17, 2011 January 17, 2011

In just a day you will get a notice about the Healthy Money Summit, a FREE telesummit running from January 24-27, with recordings available to all who can’t attend live. How fitting to tell you on Martin Luther King day whose speaking out about economic …

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Saving for a rainy day – lessons from our ancestors

Your Money or Your Life October 8, 2010 October 8, 2010 5 Comments

A friend loaned me her parent’s budget books, one from 1940, one from 1974. They are a generation apart and reflect both simpler times and the evolution of our relationship with money to the confusing or even desperate situation we are in today. Joe Dominguez …

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From this day forward…

Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems October 4, 2010 March 26, 2018

OMG. I still have so much to tell you. About my new food rules. About a Mr. Potato-mouth (a guy eating only potatoes for 60 days). About what I just learned at a Green Energy Fair from local farmers about policies that help and those …

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It’s October 1 and the tallys are coming in

Uncategorized October 1, 2010 October 1, 2010 1 comment

I know you are waiting with baited breath to get the results of this month of 10 mile eating. The tally is below (scroll down), and here’s some exegesis on the text: I lost 6 pounds. My average calories a day were ~ 1600 so …

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For richer and poorer – new stats on the wealth gap

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems September 23, 2010 September 23, 2010 3 Comments

A story on NPR this morning on the growing gap between the wealthy and the rest of us in the United States, equaled only by the gap in the 1920’s. The 400 people on Forbes magazine’s list of the richest Americans saw their combined net worth …

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Why Brazil, Round Two

Uncategorized September 23, 2010 March 26, 2018

I wonder if any of you feel as one respondent did to my e-invitation to join me on the Journey to the Heart of Brazil. She said, “And what is the footprint of flying folks to this event and how does the cost fit with …

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