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To me, this book is life changing. It gives a look at life and money and time. It puts into perspective certain incongruities in our thinking that cause us to become slaves to our jobs and those that we borrow money from.
There is a overtone in religious or spiritual even metaphysical thought. However I don't think very many people would ever find it offensive. It's given in such a way as to be helpful to people of all types, whether or not they have a spiritual background at all or not.
To be clear, this is not a church book. It is a book written in story form about people helping people see life for what it really is. It looks behind the scene of what goes on in most of our lives and helps us to develop a desire to break free of that nonsense.
One such example is this and then I'll let you decide whether or not to read the book.
If you could begin to see money as human, then imagine it as a business employee for your business. There are good employees and bad employees, good money in bad money. When we go out and get a job, the first thing we want to do is go spend some of our money on something that we have been wanting for a while. Maybe a new car or a new house.
The problem is we can't afford to buy them. Therefore, we find ourselves sitting at a loan company or a bank asking for a loan.
But in effect, what we're doing is using our future money to buy the product. We voluntarily give away, in the case of a house, 30 years of a good portion of our income. In return, as long as we never miss a payment, we'll get to keep the house.
But in a reality, what we've done is become a slave to the lender. We cannot stop working because we have to earn money or they'll take the house. Right?
So the question is proposed then, what is good money and what is bad money in this situation?
The thing each of us has to ask is ... what effect has more money made on our life? Do we now have more life?
Or does living life seem to be put on the back burner while we pay for the loan that got us what we thought would make life better?
Anyway, this book is really good at helping the individual assess where their life is and what they want from life.
There is a right or good way to go about getting the things we want. Equally there is a wrong or bad way to go get what we want in life.
But do we even know the difference?
Years ago, before loans became so easy to come upon, a couple would get married and stay with one of their parents while they saved money to buy a house.
Once they had saved enough money, everyone in the neighborhood would get together and help build the house. The difference between that time-gone-by culture and the modern culture today is that they had their house paid for already.
Today, we are being fooled into being enslaved by the lenders. Money is working against us. We think if we have more money, life will become easier. But it actually doesn't for most of us.
I personally am building a set of businesses in order to make enough regular income to leave my job and move permanently to the Philippines as a self-employed business entrepreneur.
Much like the main mentor (Scott) in the book, I don't think there's anything wrong with having money. In my situation, I've been encouraged by business associates to go out and get loans to push my business faster into the future.
However, I already understand what the guiding principle of a Lifeonaire is. I want a Life more than fast Money.
I have chosen to become, and staunchly fight to stay, financially independent from the lenders. So my business grows a bit slower than many of my peers. The difference is I do not have the stress of all of the debt collectors looking forward to me making money, so they can have their hand out to accept most of what I make.
Sure, I make money slower, but I think I make it the right way. When money comes in, whether a little or a lot, that money is my slave. I can put it to work for me.
When we become to encumbered in debt, oftentimes we become the slave to our money.
Below you will find a link to the audiobook version. In that same link you will find the link to the paperback version....
Amazon.com: Lifeonaire (Audible Audio Edition): Steve Cook, Dan Ahlborn, Lifeonaire Promotions, LLC: Audible Books & Originals
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There is also a inexpensive study guide that goes along with the book. And here is the link to that...
Lifeonaire Companion Study Guide Workbook
Lifeonaire Companion Study Guide [Cook, Micheleen] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Lifeonaire Companion Study Guide
And lastly, if you will start to strive to become a Lifeonaire, valuing the quality of life and the freedom to move as you wish through life rather than chasing money, here is a great t-shirt which can share your commitment both to yourself as a reminder and to others, prompting them to ask you what it means.
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I BELIEVE THAT IF I HELP OTHER PEOPLE FIND GOOD QUALITY PRODUCTS THAT THEY NEED OR WANT, AND CAN MARKET THEM WITH GOOD CONSCIENCE KNOWING THAT THEY ARE GOOD QUALITY, GOD OR THE UNIVERSE WILL JUST TAKE CARE OF MY NEEDS.
Much like karma, the Bible teaches that what we give out into the world is what we get back from the world. Most religions of the world agree with the concept of karma, although they won't necessarily call it that.
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