Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relatioship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez; Vicki Robin (Very Good, 1992 , HC, 350 pgs, Viking)

Cover and pages have light wear. ISBN 0670843318

“Your Money or Your Life” starts by highlighting the profound connection between money and life. The authors argue that money represents our life energy — time, effort, and skills exchanged for financial compensation. The central question the book poses is: How much of your life are you willing to trade for money?

• Part 1 The Nine Steps to Financial Independence
  • Step 1: Making Peace with the Past
  • Step 2: Being in the Present - Tracking Your Life Energy
  • Step 3: Where Is It All Going? Monthly Tabulation
  • Step 4: three Questions That Will Transform Your Life
  • Step 5: Making Life Energy Visible - Valuing Your Money
  • Step 6: Capital and the Crossover Point
  • Step 7 The Fulfillment Curve - Gaining More Than You Spend
  • Step 8: the Long view - Managing Your Finances for the Long Term
  • Step 9: The Final Step - Financial Independence and Beyond
• Part 2: Transforming Your Relationship with Money