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December
20, 2002:
Making Peace With Money
Interview
with Jerrold Mundis, author of Making
Peace With Money
Mike
Carruthers:
In your life, is money a source of worry or a source of joy?
Jerrold
Mundis:
Making a commitment to living a better life with money almost
in itself will trigger an increase of the money that flows into
your life and a relaxing of your attitudes towards it.
Jerrold
Mundis, author of the book Making
Peace with Money.
Sir Edmund
Hillary, one of the first people up Mount Everest, as you might
recall, said that once the commitment is absolute, all providence
moves in support of that commitment. I really don't want to
sound magical about it, but once the commitment is there, everything
does seem to start to fall in line.
The fact
that the US has one of the lowest savings rates in the world
shows, says Gerald, that we need to change the way we think
about money.
Saving
is not money that's being taken away from you-it's actually
money that I'm spending. When I'm saving, I'm truly spending
that money. What I'm doing is I'm buying an investment and I'm
purchasing something that's going to be beneficial for me.
And paradoxically,
being generous often brings more abundance.
I give
money away on a regular basis myself. One of the ways that I
do it is I pick a name at random out of the residential telephone
pages, I address an envelope to that person, I put a $50 bill
in it with a small note just saying, "Hey, I appreciate
that money comes into my life and goes through my life."
I mail it, I forget that person's name, and I never wonder who
that person was.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net.
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's "Something You Should Know."
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