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The Book: Your Money or Your Life

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Your Money Or Your Life

Transforming Your Relationship With Money

And Achieving Financial Independence

By Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

Penguin Putnam Inc. (1992, 1994)

Copyright © Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, 1992

Summarized by editor Clare Moss with Laurence Toltz

 

Your Money Or Your Life How the book came about

 

This book is not based on theory, good ideas or a new philosophy. It is the result of 50 years of combined experience (30 years for Joe Dominguez, 20 years for Vicki Robin) in living the principles presented here. This book just didn't happen, it evolved.

 

 

In the early 1980s, in the proverbial basement of a church and sweating out a 102-degree fever, Joe Dominguez first presented "Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence" as a seminar to several dozen people. Then, as now, the impulse was to help people strip money of its mystery and misery -- and to help worthy causes with the proceeds. A decade, numerous seminars and 10,000 attendees after that night, an enterprising agent found Joe and Vicki and sold the New Road Map team on writing a book.

 

An initial manuscript had been written and abandoned in the 1980s, and Joe and Vicki, with help from the rest of the New Road Map team, wrote a whole new manuscript, published in 1992 by Penguin Putnam, Inc.  In 1999, two years after Joe died of lymphoma, a second edition was released with a new preface written by Vicki. 

 

Here's an excerpt from Vicki's preface to the 2nd edition:

"The body of this new edition is virtually untouched. Readers of the original book need not buy this one. The nine-step program for financial integrity, intelligence and independence set forth here is the very same one Joe followed in the 1960's to extricate himself from the shackles of wage slavery. We haven't found a tenth step or found fault with any of the nine. Because of this I decided to resist the temptation to update the statistics in the book to reflect conditions in 1999. It would only initiate a fruitless uphill battle to keep up with current conditions for a book that has become a classic and teaches a timeless approach to money."

 

The book became a New York Times Bestseller, featured on such shows as Oprah.

 

It has been published in numerous countries, and in the following language editions:

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