A participant in the current Discover Your Enough Point class wrote this when he signed up: Back in 1993 after I got out of college I got a job making good money and lived with my folks. I blew every cent and just had fun! …
We do know, thanks to Jim Hansen and many others, that 350 PPM (parts per million) is the most carbon we should in the recipe for air. We now have 387 and rising. This “too muchness” reflects our collective incapacity to know how much is …
I’ve opened a “tele-class school” and you’re invited. It’s for people who want to ground the Your Money or Your Life approach in any part of their lives where it all get’s too much: over-busy, over-spending, over-eating, over-worrying, over-committed and over-whelmed. There are 2 free …
I talked recently with some friends about their money struggles. The Recession ate their Retirement. They intended to stop working in two years and enjoy the nest they’d feathered lo these many years. Now they just don’t have enough money. Our conversation inspired me to …
Finally I’m controversial enough to have drawn friendly fire. A reader challenged “Enough” as a Trojan Horse for the a “Green/we are not sustainable” political agenda, and “More” not caused by the consumer culture, but by a deep fear of extinction in the competitive battle …
Really now…even asking this question via email is absurd. At the risk of one email too many, I want to tell you about the last free teleclass on “Your Enough Point.” It was a taste of things to come for those who take the 4-week …
One of the few personal finance blogs I read on a regular basis is Get Rich Slowly by J.D. Roth. He had two great posts in the past few days that I wanted to share with you. The first one was about
David Brooks and I don’t always see eye to eye, but his Oped in the NYTimes today is a ten. In The Next Culture War he speaks pragmatically and strongly for the moral imperative of material restraint – a stand that will make strange (and …
When we updated Your Money or Your Life last year, we took out a lot of the hints and tips on how to save money in chapter 6. We knew that some of them had become outdated and that the Internet had emerged as a new and powerful …
Your Money or Your Life helps you live within your means. Below your means, really, so you liberate yourself from debt, excess and overwork. Did you know, though, that our collective human consumption has an “enough point” – a limit of spending beyond which more …