How I Will Be Rich

I’m skipping my Top 10 Tuesday today. Believe it or not, those actually take quite a while to do. I’m not skipping it because it takes too long though. I’d just rather do my round up on Friday this week. I’m going out of town tomorrow night and by setting my roundup to post on Friday, I’m getting myself off the hook for a post that day.

I’ve recently started reading Your Money or Your Life. It’s been recommended by so many other personal finance sites and The Simple Dollar even devoted several weeks to this book alone. Joe actually got his hands on a copy of this book and passed it on to me. I’m just barely getting started with it but so far it’s already really starting to grab my interest. A lot of people have told me that they had a hard time because it starts off sort of slow. Somehow, I seem to really be relating to the first part of this book. I don’t want to write a review on it or anything, I just wanted to make note that I have begun reading it and over the next couple weeks I will probably refer to it quite a bit.

The first chapter really focuses on what people consider “making a living”. We go to work, put in forty or more hours, go home, eat, watch t.v. and then go to bed. We then look forward to the weekends because we are going to do something meaningful but when the weekend comes around, what happens? You do housework, make sure the laundry is taken care of, do all the shopping you need to get done and, when all is said and done, have gotten really nothing of real value done.

Why is it that we work so hard for money just so we can go home and do the same old boring routine things that we seem to do day in and day out. Don’t get me wrong, I know that there is the occasional excitement when you go on your vacation for one or two weeks out of the year. Once you get home from your vacation, it’s right back to the daily grind. The vacation just served as tease to let you know that there is fun out there, you only get to see it for one or two weeks out of the year, but it is out there.

Like I said, I’ve barely began to get in to this book. I’m just thinking that if I’m only this far in to the book and it’s already starting to hit home, I’m really going to enjoy this book.

Has anyone else read it that wants to share any thoughts? I’ll be posting plenty of my thoughts on it as I go…

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