Category: Your Money or Your Life

I am writing to thank you for your influence and work through discussion groups, speeches and especially your co-authorship with Joe in Your Money or Your Life.

Katie Teague interviewed me for her film in progress Current-Sea Change. Much of what I say is in YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNdqCqg3vgo]

Everyone who does the 9-step program Your Money or Your Life and reaches their “debt crossover point” – retiring their last penny of debt including mortgage – experiences a freedom beyond description. A lightness of being. A release as the shackles come off and they …

What makes Your Money or Your Life different from most personal finance books?  There are three big differences.  First of all, most financial advice assumes that “more is always better” – more income,  more status, and more stuff.  Your Money or Your Life is different …

Nothing like moving to hold a Your Money or Your Life Step One mirror up to reflect one’s mountains of possessions. Step One is where you put a $$$ value on all your stuff. To do so, you have to look at each of your …

You heard it first here, folks. In Your Money or Your Life we equate frugality with freedom, smarts, and maximal pleasure for each dollar spent. Long ago (last year) frugality still looked like a loser’s game and using “other people’s money” (debt) was King. Ahh, …

Bad news! People aren’t moving! The April 22 New York Times reported this bad economic news: “The US Census Bureau found that the number of people who changed residences declined to 35.2 million from March 2007 to March 2008, the lowest number since 1962, when …

“How much is enough?” is truly the question of the hour. Enough executive compensation? Enough bailout money? Enough in the budget for pressing issues now that revenues are down? Enough to pay on groceries and still get nourished? Your Money or Your Life provides a …

Days after the AARP bulletin featured Your Money or Your Life an article titled “Austere Times? Perfect” in Easter Sunday’s NY Times did too. Both celebrate the frugal and free lifestyle. Together they have the book zooming again to Amazon best-seller-dom heaven. Well if Jim …

Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money, and I have worked side by side for years in the work of transforming people’s relationship with money and life. Here’s her wisdom for these times. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_45X_9uRo0&hl=en&fs=1]