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Your Money or Your Life

Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez · 1992

You trade your life energy for money — make every trade count.

Summary

Robin and Dominguez treat money as 'life energy' — hours of your finite life exchanged for dollars. Their nine-step program asks you to compute your real hourly wage (after commute, work clothes, decompression), track every dollar, evaluate whether each spend brought fulfillment, and progressively close the gap between earning and meaning. The endgame is financial independence: passive income exceeding expenses.

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