Call this post: FI 2.0. Or maybe 3.0. One of the most radical and overlooked ideas in Your Money or Your Life comes in Chapter 7. The job of that Chapter is to have you realize that a “job” is not the only, best, most legitimate, most...
Are you, like me, getting both mesmerized by and sick of the palace intrigues in Washington DC? John deGraaf suggested a remedy. He picked a 5 item common sense agenda that would help a very confused and distressed populace with their real...
Ata Atanasov from Macedonia contacted me last year to arrange a translation into Macedonian of Your Money or Your Life. We settled on the simpler, quicker task of translating the excellent summary. I well recognized his passion to spread the...
Joe Dominguez, the originator of the 9-step program and co-author of Your Money or Your Life, died 20 years ago in January 1997. This was also the year that our book was one of the top 10 business books according to Business Week. He used to...
Bekah Zachritz is one of many Millennials I’ve interviewed recently to understand what they’re up against and what they’re made of. Bekah’s life and mine docked two years ago in the parking lot at a new co-housing...
Few Americans have experienced a blatantly corrupt political reality with a possibility that our achievements in civility and human rights could fly away like cinders from a hot, destructive fire. I was so glad to discover these clarifying...
Join me in unraveling my wild ride towards buying an old airport parking bus…almost. It started with Standing Rock – as many stories these days do. In August, the door of my heart flew open and the Standing Rock cause flew in. I went...
Guests last night couldn’t wait to tell me that their son, age 31, sent along profuse thanks for the idea of “the enough point” from Your Money or Your Life. It’s been a guiding light for him and he’s almost there...
In 2000 Marianne Williamson asked many of us to Imagine our work “working out” by 2050 and write a chapter for the book Imagine. I’m posting my story here because I think we are IN the hard times predicted and it’s good to...
Happily holding our banner in a downpour under the shelter of my Mary Poppins-with-bling umbrella, I begin my next career as an organizer of protests, pickets, demonstrations, and other such human installations for a cause. At 2 PM the sun was...
First shot: a freeway cloverleaf at rush hour. Cut to foreshortened slo-mo shot of people in a generic city looking worried and harried bobbing down a sidewalk on the way to work. More shots of toddlers watching TV, teenagers taking Selfies...
In just two months the Standing Rock Sioux non violent resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline boring under the Missouri River has grown from a few Water Protectors in prayer and ceremony to 4 camps where well over 200 tribal groups and 10,000...
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