Your Money or Your Life

"The Money Trap: The Old Road Map for Money"

Fiscal security rests on having certain knowledge of how you are spending your life, not just your dollars. Financial independence means creating an income apart from your job, but it also means independence from old ideas and beliefs about how money works. Like most people, you probably believe that what you do for money has little to do with who you really are. It’s just a way to pay the bills.

Beyond depending on their jobs for income, people often derive their sense of self from their occupations. For many, work takes over, displacing time they once spent with their friends and family. Americans typically work more than 40 hours a week - add in commuting and job preparation time, and the week has few waking hours left for you to be a human being.

Despite longer hours on the job, most Americans haven’t saved much money. In fact, people now save less and are more in debt than ever. This way of life is debilitating, stressful, and hard on your health, relationships and family. And what are you working so hard to get? Well, usually to get more than you need to have. Consumerism destroys the earth, individual lives ...