Which of the following words best describes your feelings about money: alive, fluid, energetic, powerful, transformational, attached to nothing? Deborah L. Price has been a financial consultant and money coach for 17 years. She sees money mainly as "a tool meant to help transform your life in more meaningful ways. As a tool, it will facilitate the path of true fulfillment that comes from living your life intentionally and with purpose." Unfortunately, many of us relate to money with guilt, fear, shame, and disgust. We both love it and hate it. And throughout our lives, many of us carry large burdens over having wasted, lost, and neglected money.
Price has identified eight money types to help us come to terms with the ideas, habits, and actions that influence our relationship with money. They are the innocent (the ostrich approach), the victim (blaming circumstances), the warrior (conquering money), the martyr (rescuing someone), the fool (gambler looking for a windfall), the creator/artist (spiritual/artistic types who see money as evil), the tyrant (uses money to control), and the magician (the ideal money type). She adds some fine fine exercises on examining your true net worth, working with your money shadow, and creating your money biography. Ignore the rather excessive subtitle of this paperback and savor the down-to-earth insights it gives you into your relationship with money.
