While searching for my next read I came across the book Your Money or Your Life? by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. “That’s an attention-grabber title”, I thought to myself. It truly is, because if you’ve had the misfortune of ever being asked that question at gunpoint (as I unfortunately have), you come to understand what you truly value… and believe me, money comes dead last.
We are safe to assume that almost no one will say “take my life, but let me keep my money,” right? But if money is less important than life, why do we live the way we do? You know… in that hamster wheel, working to buy things, accumulate things, working to buy happiness and status through our clothes, our next phone, watch, car, boat, or house?