Your money or your life : transforming your relationship with money and achieving financial independence / Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments -- Warning to reader -- Prologue : why read this book? -- 1. The money trap : the old road map for money -- Step 1 : making peace with the past -- A : How much have you earned in your life? -- B : What have you got to show for it? -- 2. Money ain't what it used to be : and never was -- Step 2 : Being in the present - tracking your life energy -- A : How much are you trading your life energy for? -- B : Keep track of every cent that comes into or goes out of your life -- 3. Where is it all going? -- Step 3 : Monthly tabulation -- 4. How much is enough? The nature of fulfillment -- Step 4 : Three questions that will transform your life -- Question 1 : Did I receive fulfillment, satisfaction and value in proportion to life energy spent? -- Question 2 : Is this expenditure of life energy in alignment with my values and life purpose? -- Question 3 : How might this expenditure change if I didn't have to work for a living? -- 5. Seeing progress -- Step 5 : Making life energy visible -- 6. The American dream - on a shoestring -- Step 6 : valuing your life energy - minimizing spending -- 7. For love or money : valuing life energy - work and income -- Step 7 : Valuing your life energy - maximizing income -- 8. The crossover point : the pot of gold at the end of the wall chart -- Step 8 : Capital and the crossover point --

9. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do with it? -- Step 9 : managing your finances -- Epilogue : nine magical steps to create a new road map -- Resources -- Notes.