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 It's Not About The Money, from Harper Collins.
By Brent Kessel
Brent combines the latest financial thinking with ancient spiritual wisdom to shed light on the relationship between people and their money, and offers the reader a program for attaining financial and emotional security. Drawing on interviews with spiritual leaders and financial gurus, Kessel teaches you how to grow more conscious of your spending, saving, investing, and giving, and shows you how to become more financially sound and spiritually at peace.
 The Cure For Money Madness, from Random House.
By Spencer Sherman
When Spencer found himself crossing a police line to retrieve his work files from a burning office building, he realized he had money madness. He noticed it in his clients, too: those irrational feelings about money that make otherwise rational adults behave foolishly—buying high, selling low, overspending, lying to their spouses, equating their self-worth with their net worth. Money madness stresses us out, poisons our relationships, and keeps us from making as much money as we can.
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The Cure for Money Madness makes a golden promise: stress-free prosperity and a lifetime of financial peace.
When financial advisor Spencer Sherman found himself crossing a police line to retrieve his work files from a burning office building, he realized he had money madness. He noticed it in his clients, too: those irrational feelings about money that make otherwise rational adults behave foolishly—buying high, selling low, overspending, lying to their spouses, equating their self-worth with their net worth. Money madness stresses us out, poisons our relationships, and keeps us from making as much money as we can. So Spencer invented the cure. Now, in The Cure for Money Madness, he gives us the tools that have helped thousands of people find greater peace of mind—and make more money.
Money madness, Spencer shows us, comes from unproductive messages that we received long ago. “It takes money to make money.” “Paying rent is just throwing money down the drain.” “Don’t talk about money.” When you challenge the messages, you can transform all aspects of your money life: earning, spending, saving, investing, giving, borrowing. More money will flow to you. Your relationships will improve. You’ll enjoy your money more. And you’ll be more generous, too.
In The Cure for Money Madness, you’ll discover:
How much your money madness has been costing you
How wealthy you truly are, by using the revolutionary Actual Net WorthTM statement
How “small and boring” can help you outperform the top investors—without watching the market
How to communicate about money in ways that create deeper connections with your spouse, parents, children, friends, and colleagues
How to know what is truly enough
Money madness keeps us from living as richly as we might and enjoying the wealth we have. In these tough economic times, The Cure for Money Madness transforms fear and stress into prosperity and peace.
Visit www.curemoneymadness.comto learn more.
"The Buddha taught about the dangers of the wanting mind in all of us, and here Brent Kessel applies that wisdom to the modern challenge of people and their emotional relationship with money. All aspects of our lives are interconnected, so ignoring this important relationship usually leads to self-deception and suffering. Applying Eastern Wisdom to a very Western concern, Kessel shows how being mindful of our relationship to money can free one of anxiety and even turn money into a tool for compassion."
Thich Naht Hanh, Zen Buddhist monk nominated for the Nobel Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Key Teachings from It’s Not About the Money™
If we want to change something about our relationship to money, that change must originate from the inside out, and not from the outside in. We must become interested students in what motivates us to act the way we do with money before we can have any hope of transforming
Most people’s financial behaviors and choices are driven by powerful internal forces over which we feel we have little control. These archetypal forces, so ingrained in our culture and personalities, can affect us in balanced, healthy ways as well as in unhealthier ways, whether we are wealthy or struggling to make ends meet. Most people have become fixated on one set of financial beliefs and behavior patterns—one archetype—in response to particular life experiences. With great skill, willingness, and vigilance, we can transcend unconscious conditioning and experience a significant amount of freedom around money
The book is the result of years helping people understand their core story with money: some of us are savers or caretakers, some of us are pleasure seekers or spend like stars, some of us are idealists placing greater value on creativity or compassion than on financial security, some of us innocently believe our finances will work out without effort, while others obsess about building our own empires with everlasting value. So whatever your relationship with money, It’s Not About the Money™ will help you diagnose your type, provide exercises and meditations to inspire a fresh approach to your personal finances that promises to change your life.
The wanting mind is that part of our mind which can never have enough and will not let go easily. We must learn to create an open dialogue between our unconscious wanting mind and our higher wisdom in order to not be caught by our unconscious conditioning.
We can (and should) invest our money in a way which is interconnected with as many beings as possible. This interconnectedness is at the root of every spiritual tradition, and also allows our money to grow much faster and with less risk than if we invest in a more isolated way.
Compassion and generosity are the cornerstones of a healthy, fulfilling relationship to money. If we are hoarding or gripping tightly to our money, we are essentially reinforcing the belief “I don’t have enough.” When we are in a generous state of mind, we are reinforcing “I do have enough.” This helps us experience true freedom.
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