ENOUGH: What is it? When do we know we’re there…

…And enough what? Stuff? Health? Credit Card Debt? Friends?

You may have heard about a book called Your Money or Your Life, originally published in 1992 and updated last year. If you haven’t read it, I recommend you check it out. The book became a huge hit and resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers who felt buried under debt and stuff, while lacking time for friends, leisure, and fun. It helped start a national discussion about enough by asking how much is enough of anything and how do we know when we’re there.


As co-author, Vicki Robin, explains: “In an era of excess, ‘enoughness’, is a radical practice. So many of us are in personal overwhelm (spending and doing and striving too much) and humanity is in overshoot (using more of the earth’s resources each year than the earth can provide). Both conditions link right back to our relationship with money.”

Earlier this month we posted one of Vicki’s free online classes on Facebook and got some great feedback from the community. She is now offering three free webinars that help you transform your relationship with money and life. These webinars, as well as her paid classes, offer resources, tools, tips, and social support for building a healthier relationship to money so we can spend more of our life on living, less on paying credit card debt. All explore issues at the core of our obsession with stuff.

Click HERE for more information on each of the webinars and on how to sign up.

We’d love some feedback from those of you who participate in any of the webinars. Please post a comment here or on our Facebook page.

posted by Renée Shade
August 31, 2010
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  • http://www.yourmoneyoryourlife.org Vicki

    Oh my! Thank you so much for posting this – and in your own words. I’m so happy for your partnership.
    Vicki

  • http://www.assembleerepublique.fr/moteur.php?decision=accueil_anglais Mat

    Hello,

    I’m a french teacher, and I’ve shown your videos to my high school students (15-17 years old), and they’ve been very interested.

    I’d like to present you a tool of participative democracy on the Internet :
    http://www.assembleerepublique.fr/moteur.php?decision=accueil_anglais

    It consists in creating and voting your own laws : for the moment, it’s a virtual democracy, but its goal is to become real in the next few years.

    Why don’t you try it by subscribing to it ?

    Friendly, Mat.

  • http://cgi.ebay.com/Acne-Treatments-Work-/260655743107 skin clear

    Interesting concept of “enoughness” but easier said than done.

    We’re trained from the time we go to school to get good grades (competitiveness to do better than the next person) so we can go to a good college, get a good job, and buy a home; paying off student loans and a mortgage can take years.

    In other words, we are programmed early on to be competitive and one-up the next person, and to get in a big amount of debt.

  • http://www.goddessgroove.blogspot.com Martina

    I first heard this concept of enough on a movie called Crude Impact. On the extras Bill and Lynne Twist were discussing this and it was truly profound for me listening to them. Truly worth watching. If we followed a path of what they speak about, things would truly shift on our planet and in our lives. This book is on my list of to reads.

  • Dan Baldwin

    I found your website in a newspaper ad by a bankruptcy lawfirm (www.doanlawfirm.com).

    I enjoyed your “stuff” video very much. Are you familiar with the two “Money as Debt” videos made by Paul Grignon (www.moneyasdebt.net)?

    He provides two very easy to understand videos

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhqO9sj0als
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_doYllBk5No

    that show how the expansion of money/debt in a “linear” form will bankrupt the Earth’s resources as it’s simply impossible to expand the economy indefinately

    Seems like the two of you are addressing the same problems from different angles. I’d be interested in your opinion of his 2 videos.

  • http://noestaobsoleto.wordpress.com Constanza Ríos

    Les dejo una serie de spot que he realizado sobre el tema de la obsolescencia programada y percibida, para crear conciencia en la gente de como nuestro consumo excesivo de productos ataca directamente al planeta

    I leave a series of spot I’ve done on the subject of
    planned obsolescence and perceived, to create awareness among the people
    as our excessive consumption of products directly attacks the planet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJj0L5vrkj8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTDpp0aQMf8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyh5HF8k-Hs