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Category: Your Money or Your Life

Your job or your life

Your job or your life
Money & Life / Your Money or Your Life March 19, 2018 February 11, 2019 10 Comments

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 …

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Is YMOYL just for the privileged?

Your Money or Your Life November 14, 2017 August 16, 2018 3 Comments

Three+ months until the new improved Your Money or Your Life makeover is released. There’s so much in there I want to share with you, but there’s one section taken out by my editor that now seems so relevant to me: the effect of race, …

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If the government were like a family at a kitchen table talking $

Money & Life / Your Money or Your Life May 13, 2017 May 13, 2017 1 comment

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 lives. What does everyone really …

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It works in Macedonia, too

Your Money or Your Life January 14, 2017 January 14, 2017 1 comment

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 powerful program in places where …

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Joe-isms: the Great Depression

Your Money or Your Life January 4, 2017 March 22, 2018 1 comment

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 …

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Bekah and Cooper

Your Money or Your Life January 3, 2017 March 22, 2018 Leave a comment

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 community in my town. I’d bought one of …

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How to survive Fascism

Your Money or Your Life November 28, 2016 January 7, 2025 3 Comments

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 guidelines for moral and mortal courage from …

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To buy or not to buy… the continuing saga of Standing Rock

Money & Life / Your Money or Your Life November 26, 2016 March 22, 2018 Leave a comment

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, delivered warm …

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Your Enough Point

Your Money or Your Life November 23, 2016 November 23, 2016 1 comment

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. At one level, my …

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Hope: Tiffa and Peri

Your Money or Your Life November 3, 2016 November 3, 2016 Leave a comment

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 imagine what …

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