![]() ![]() It is about discovering that balance which will allow you the most enjoyment from the resources you possess. It is about valuing time, valuing experiences, and valuing things. It is about weighing your deepest, most stringent desires, and then finding ways to bring the heaviest ones to fruition. It is about navigating all the swirlings of your life, and doing it effectively. It is about identity - both yours, and that which you assign to your money. In some ways, YMOYL is difficult to categorize. It is a book - and there aren't many of these - from which two readings (and you will read it more than once) will net you about five readings' worth of motivation. Even for me, it wasn't difficult to discern: This book was something special. ![]() ![]() Rest assured that once I was ten or twelve pages into YMOYL, I knew I was in for a remarkable read. I picked up YMOYL because someone had praised it on a message board. At that point, I'd read maybe four or five other finance primers. ![]() I cannot recall exactly when I first read Your Money or Your Life (YMOYL), but I know that it was fairly early in my financial renaissance - probably sometime in early- or mid-2002. When I consider everything I have read in the realm of personal finance, I cannot think of a more effective work than Your Money or Your Life. It isn't a book, really it's more of a process. Let me make this simple: Your Money or Your Life is elegant and powerful. ![]()
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