 Your Money or Your Life
Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin.
This is a very powerful foundational book that is very easy to read and understand. They cover some basics about making good decisions when making purchases and the actual long term cost of items. Some helpful exercises and new ays of stretching your dollar.
Great step by step outline on how to have more with less money spent, how to create a wall chart to track declining monthly expenses while showing the increased savings and how this grows over time and what that provides for you. Excellent discussion of attaining real financial independence all while improving your quality of life.
Three great questions:
1. Did I receive fulfillment, satisfaction and value in proportion to life energy spent?
2. Is this expenditure of life energy in alignment with my values and life purpose?
3. How might this expenditure change if I did not have to work for a living? |
 How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously
Jerrold Mundis
This is probably the most helpful book for getting your arms around your finances. It has step by step instructions to help you find out how much you spend every month and other tools to help you make sure you get what you need every month without going broke. |
 The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas J. Stanley & William Danko.
This books gives a unique view inside the real lifestyles of the rich and famous...some of them anyway. The average millionaire lives more simply and carefully or "consciously" than most people that claim to be conscious and aware. |
 The 4-Hour Work Week
Timothy Ferriss
This book is a more recent addition to our list and belongs under both Career and Money. Tim Ferris has collected some amazing insights a very short career. He shares some favorite stories and examples that we have been collecting for over 20 years and boils them down into a very easy to read, fun and inspiring collection that will leave you thinking long and hard about the life you have created for yourself. He really gets you to think outside the box and be brutally honest with yourself about what you really want and what have and what you don't have right now. This is more about dreams and passion than "things" and one of the reasons we have added it to our selected reading list. |
