Your Money or Your Life
For
those of you who don't read our homesteading blog, I wanted to point you to
the series I ran over there last week reviewing
Your Money or Your Life. This book is a great
starting point for people who would like to quit their jobs but need a
little push to help reach beyond the typical 9 to 5. The entire
program can also be downloaded for free from the Financial
Integrity website,
so you have no excuse not to check it out.
I'm not going to rehash
the highlights I posted over at Walden Effect, but I did want to add
another tidbit of information that I forgot to mention there ---
ganzingus pins. When I read Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin's
description of this fictional object, it really resonated with me, and
I suspect it will with you as well. The authors argued that
everyone has a simple-living achilles heel, some type of product we
feel compelled to buy whenever we see it for sale. The most
obvious example of a gazingus pin is a fashionable lady's shoes ---
I've read stories of people who have 3,000 pairs, clearly more than
they can ever wear.
But don't think that the
gazingus pin is an affliction that only strikes the shopaholic.
I'm a certified skinflint and I had my own gazingus pin until a few
years ago --- field guides. When I graduated from college and
suddenly had a bit of spending money, I started treating myself to a
new field guide every month. The first couple of field guides
gave me pure joy. They were books that I'd longed to buy for a
decade, and I pored over them, soaking up the new information.
But by the end of the year, I was reaching a bit to find field guides
that appealed to me, and I was no longer having time to learn all of
the information in each one before buying another. Eventually, I
stopped buying field guides and laid my gazingus pin to rest.
Being self-aware is
essential when dealing with gazingus pins. If you follow the
steps to calculate
your real hourly wage
and then determine how much of your time each gazingus pin costs, you
will probably quickly overcome the afflication and be well on your way
to Microbusiness Independence!
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