Your Money or Your Life

9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018

By: Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Mr. Money Mustache - foreword

Narrated by: Vicki Robin

Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Brand new for 2018: A fully revised edition of one of the most influential books ever written on personal finance with more than a million copies sold

“The best book on money. Period.” (Grant Sabatier, founder of Millennial Money, on CNBC Make It)

"This is a wonderful book. It can really change your life." (Oprah)

For more than 25 years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance.

This fully revised and updated edition with a foreword by "the Frugal Guru" (The New Yorker) Mr. Money Mustache is the ultimate makeover of this best-selling classic, ensuring that its time-tested wisdom applies to people of all ages and covers modern topics like investing in index funds, managing revenue streams like side hustles and freelancing, tracking your finances online, and having difficult conversations about money.

Whether you’re just beginning your financial life or heading towards retirement, this book will tell you how to:

• Get out of debt and develop savings
• Save money through mindfulness and good habits, rather than strict budgeting
• Declutter your life and live well for less
• Invest your savings and begin creating wealth
• Save the planet while saving money
• And so much more!

"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management." (The Los Angeles Times)

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2008 Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez and Mr. Money Mustache, foreword (P)2018 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management." (Los Angeles Times)

"Vicki Robin wrote the book on retiring happy. Now a whole new generation is taking her advice. [She is] the millenial money whisperer." (Money Magazine)

“Vicki Robin’s Your Money or Your Life offers readers the gift of meaningful, applicable advice so that they can achieve true financial independence on their terms. It is deservedly one of the most acclaimed and referenced financial advice books of our time and will undoubtedly continue that legacy for generations.” (Farnoosh Torabi, best-selling financial author and host of the award-winning podcast So Money)

Start here!

Start here, find your why, there is more than personal finance and budgeting here.

This book speak volume about lifestyle and life choices.

I read this one twice already.

excellent

loved it very helpful informative and great reminders. recommend this book in as many classrooms as possible.

okay. could've been better.

had great nuggets. lost me for a minute. had to stop and come back later.

No right answers???

Overall I really enjoyed this book and I think there are some sound concepts and ideas that could be quite useful. My only real pet peeve was that at the end of every chapter the author asks a series of questions and then finishes up by saying “there are no RIGHT answers“. I think she really intends to say there are no WRONG answers, but It’s quite confusing. Why would I even attempt to answer a question if I know ahead of time that there are no right answers.

Some Gold Nuggets But Tons of Boring Fillers

Pros - some real gold nuggets in the first half of the book. The true amount you're earning from work factoring in recovery expense, transport, and clothes is pure gold. Some good tactical information early on as well.

Cons - Tons of fillers and boring ass stories. The audiobook could have been easily condensed to 1/4 its size. I was so mad that the author won't get straight to the point. It's boring story after another with respective boring chapter summaries. The second half of the audiobook was useless, I learned nothing from it.

I'd recommend the first half of the audiobook but the second half you can easily skip and you won't miss anything.

A great book to read

To evaluate what you spend your life energy on.
To reduce your spending on things you don’t won’t is a eye opener.
You need to read this book to help you save more time and money.

YMOYL - Great Listen

Your Money or Your Life makes it a little easier to understand what wants are and what needs are. Separating these two things greatly increase your chances of saving more money each month to help you achieve FI.

Great book

This should be a required textbook in high schools. The fact that the author narrated it made this a great listening experience.

Good Read for the 30-40 year old crowd.

If you’re in your late 50s or early 60s with what the author describes as “enough” don’t bother reading this. I thought I might find some magic formula as to when I should call it a day and retire from my own small business. Nope. This book speaks to folks in the accumulation phase.

Straight Forward Timeless Advice That Works

Vicki Robin gives straight forward timeless advice in a world that makes it easier to spend money than ever before. Money is your life’s energy. Don’t waste it away.