Today I received a tote bag from Penguin, publisher of Your Money or Your Life. Our book (meaning the authors but also everyone who has helped it reach a large public) has been selected as one of the top 75 books Penguin has published in …
John Robbins, a speaker in the Conscious Money Speakers Series recently wrote The New Good Life. One Chapter is in fact his recapitulation of Your Money or Your Life. Read the following interview in the U.S. News and World Report and get inspired all over …
I just paid my “carbon sin tax” for all my globetrotting in the last year. I put 24 tons of carbon into the atmosphere and I decided to donate my “tax” to a local Land Trust purchase of a square mile of forest on the …
In February the NYTimes began a series about how strapped Americans are addressing the Long Recession. “Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out …
Please enjoy this TED talk by Daniel Gilbert. And then I’ll tell you why it is for me a most delicious 18 minutes. In the years between the second edition of Your Money or Your Life (1998) and the third which was a rewrite (2008), …
Well, Melinda Tuhus did me/us a great favor by summarizing the workshop John deGraaf and I did at the Gross National Happiness conference. Please check out this link as it has a lot of very good information in it about John’s “Take Back Your Time” …
It’s been too long since I posted. Busy. On the road for nearly 2 months with a small pit stop home. Last week I was at the GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS conference in VT and then spoke on a GNH panel at the Green Festival in …
In my Power of Enough teleclass (starting again in September) we talk about “proportion” as one of the principles of “enoughness”. Proportion is how your portion relates to the whole – living “in proportion” creates harmony and ease. That Goldilocks sense of “just right”. So …
I just got back from a trip to Brazil, 3 wonderful weeks built around 2 days of teaching at a human services agency in one of my favorite cities. If you counted only the actual hours of standing in front of a group of Brazilian …
Today I spoke about money, life, enough, economy and more with Annabel Park, founder of www.coffeepartyusa.com, on blogtalkradio. The Coffee Party was formed to bring people together around politics, culture, and community, in part in response to the polarization precipitated by The Tea Party activism. …