Short synopsis: Before “FIRE” became a movement, Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez were already asking the harder question: is this job actually worth your life? This fully revised 2018 edition of “Your Money or Your Life” book updates their original nine-step program for a generation managing side hustles and online banking instead of pay stubs and passbooks.
Full Book description
Most money advice asks how to earn more. Your Money or Your Life asks a different question entirely: what is your time actually costing you? Robin and Dominguez built their original nine-step program around a simple but uncomfortable idea, that every dollar spent represents hours of life traded for it, and that most people are running up a bill without ever checking the true cost.
This 2018 edition keeps that original framework intact while catching it up to a very different financial landscape, adding guidance on index fund investing, managing multiple income streams like freelance and side-hustle work, and tracking spending digitally rather than on paper ledgers. A new foreword from Mr. Money Mustache situates the book within the modern financial independence movement it helped inspire decades before the term existed.
Long before FIRE had a name, this book was already laying out its blueprint, and this updated edition makes the case that the underlying math, trading life for money, still holds just as true in an economy built on subscriptions and gig work as it did in 1992.
Notable: First published in 1992; has sold over a million copies across its editions. This 2018 edition updates the original nine-step program to cover modern topics including index fund investing, side hustles, freelancing, and online finance tracking.
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- Title: Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Fully Revised and Updated for 2018)
- Authors: Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez; foreword by Mr. Money Mustache
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Publication date: December 10, 2008
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9780143115762 · ISBN-10: 0143115766
- Pages: 368 pages
- Genre: Personal finance / Financial independence
- Condition: Very Good
- Stock: Out Of Stock
- Price: KES500
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