pithypants reviewed Your Money or Your Life by JOE DOMINGUEZ
Review of 'Your Money or Your Life' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I listened to this book because I find that a lot of my clients are wrestling with the idea of "enough" and trying to find a new way to organize their thinking around finances, and I wondered if this book would be useful. In short: yes. This book should be required reading for graduates starting their first job who aspire to be financially independent one day. A lot of what she lays out is common sense, and I can't imagine anyone actually DOING all the activities she outlines (I mean, I love spreadsheets but there is no way I am going to inventory every single item in my house), but the real value in this book is the philosophy she outlines. Which is: start thinking of money as what you receive for trading your life energy. Don't view purchases in terms of dollars, view them in terms of the amount …
I listened to this book because I find that a lot of my clients are wrestling with the idea of "enough" and trying to find a new way to organize their thinking around finances, and I wondered if this book would be useful. In short: yes. This book should be required reading for graduates starting their first job who aspire to be financially independent one day. A lot of what she lays out is common sense, and I can't imagine anyone actually DOING all the activities she outlines (I mean, I love spreadsheets but there is no way I am going to inventory every single item in my house), but the real value in this book is the philosophy she outlines. Which is: start thinking of money as what you receive for trading your life energy. Don't view purchases in terms of dollars, view them in terms of the amount of your life you sacrificed for them. If more people viewed money this way, I think we'd see more people who live lives they enjoy rather than becoming slaves to consumption and the never-ended quest for "more."
