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Title: The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life
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| The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life by Dell Wonderful Book!! | | I found this book to be moving, englightening and wonderful! The Seven Stage approach has deep roots in the humanities and spirituality. I particularly like how he uses a Buddhist meditation to dealing with money with greater maturity. The stories of work with clients and their money issues are very engaging and instructive. And the information provided is very practical and useful. I give this work the highest rating!! | | The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life by Dell Seven Stages of Money Maturity | | This book is perfect for anyone who needs a little grounding and inquiry around money. | | The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life by Dell Money and your mind/body connection | I do like the approach of money as a journey rather than the books that ask you to look for your money personality and seek to put you in a category. They will change if you are growing and changing and isn't that the point?
I particularly was moved by his description of his childhood awareness that some of us have more than others and how that leads to the end of innocence..along with the description of the time his parents taught him gratitude about the flute he was given as a gift. | | The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life by Dell A Wonderful Guide to Understanding How We Can Improve Our Lives | | Kinder offers some real insight and wisdom here, as he gently guides us into a deeper understanding of our relationship with money--and how past experiences shape our views and may limit our ability to shape our own destiny. More than a simple "how-to" handbook so often found in the financial press, this book explores our motivations and what steps we might take to fulfill our deepest goals and achieve our most profound dreams. Highly recommended! | | The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life by Dell The Psychology of Money | In January 2002 my wife and I hit rock bottom financially. We owed nearly $45,000 in credit card debt alone, another $20,000 in student loans, and another $30,000 or so in car loans, personal loans, etc. We rented a ramshackle house and had no savings or investments whatsoever. And yet I found it impossible to pass up a bookstore without a new book in hand or the latest CD. I had read a number of books about personal finance, but I understood that there was something deeper that I was looking for. Something that would help me to understand the psychology of money, to understand why I made the choices that I made.
Fortunately, I came across an ad for George Kinder's book in Harvard Magazine in 2002. As a Christian I can understand that some might be put off by Kinder's infusion of Buddhist philosophy throughout the book. I studied East Asian studies in college, so I wasn't that bothered by it. In fact, I think Kinder's metaphor of the seven chakras, or energy centers, correlated perfectly with the seven stages of money maturity.
The main problem with most popular approaches to teaching personal finance is that they start at level four or five. But you haven't addressed the fundamental issues of levels one through three. This gap helps explain why the average American household has a negative net worth. We are doping ourselves at the mall with our credit cards!
Four years after reading the Seven Stages we have paid off all of that old debt (no bankruptcy!), own our own home, and are closing in on six figures liquid net worth. Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad helped me to realize that The Matrix had me in its grasp; Kinder helped me see the code. | | The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life by Dell Product Description | Discover a powerful new way to look at your money and your life.
Where do our attitudes about money come from--and how do they influence our lives? How can we approach financial issues with honesty and without fear?
In this groundbreaking book, renowned Buddhist teacher George Kinder, a Harvard-trained certified financial planner, demonstrates how we can literally transform our lives emotionally and financially by achieving "money maturity"--a full understanding of the spiritual and psychological issues surrounding our money lives.
Drawing on ancient Buddhist wisdom and his years of financial practice, Kinder has created a revolutionary program that guides us through the Seven Stages of a revolutionary journey--one designed to help us uncover the roots of our attitudes about money, and attain true peace, freedom, and security in our financial lives. Learn how to:
Understand feelings that impact taking financial action
Develop understanding and knowledge about money
Eliminate stress and anxiety around money
Let go of old patterns and painful habits
Approach money tasks with energy and optimism
Design a money life that is fulfilling both financially and spiritually
Filled with practical information, market-tested, wealth-building skills, personal success stories, and spiritual guidance, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity is an invaluable guide to a rich--and richly lived--life.
1. Innocence--The childhood state we are born in, devoid of any concept of money
2. Pain--The discovery that we have more money than some and less than others, and that work is necessary to make a living
3. Knowledge--The intellectual task of learning financial techniques such as saving, budgeting, and investing
4. Understanding--The emotional work done in coming to terms with feelings around money, such as greed, envy, and resentment (which are rooted in Pain)
5. Vigor--The energy (physical, emotional, and spiritual) that must be expended to reach financial goals
6. Vision--The direction of Vigor outward toward the health and welfare of communities, with or without profit motive
7. Aloha--The compassionate goodwill that allows one to use money to perform acts of kindness without expecting anything in return
Using THE SEVEN STAGES OF MONEY MATURITY, readers will understand each encounter with money as a step toward awakening; a lesson about the relationship they share with others as well as with the self. --> | | The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life by Dell Amazon.com | The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, by financial advisor and Buddhist teacher George Kinder, presents a totally original look at the ins and outs of individual economics. Drawing on timeless spiritual wisdom in addition to modern fiscal doctrine, Kinder deftly combines the philosophical and the practical to help readers broaden their understanding of the overall role that money plays in life from childhood onward--and, more importantly, put themselves on firmer footing with it today. Most financial advisors and books about money approach finance as if it were simply a skill to learn, the same sort of thing as hitting a fastball or speaking French like a diplomat. Money maturity does include skills, such as understanding investment options and using a budget effectively, but it goes much deeper, to the feelings, the heart, and, yes, the soul. By following three composite characters throughout the book and examining their experiences through the prisms of his own background and development, Kinder explains how to evolve naturally through these seven specific states (innocence, pain, knowledge, understanding, vigor, vision, and aloha) to achieve both financial and personal security. --Howard Rothman |
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