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The Cure for Money Madness: Break Your Bad Money Habits, Live Without Financial Stress--and Make More Money!

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What gratification to see someone you taught years ago grow into a wise and helpful human being. This book is the product of that growth. Spencer offers a font of advice on how to look into the money madness which grips so many people in this prosperous, yet often self-defeating society in which we live. Through insightful analysis of hidden childhood money patterns and useful exercises Spencer guides the reader into his or her individual "money madness" and suggests how to remedy it. He further teaches how people can invest, free of the pushes and pulls of the get rich quick schemes in books, on radio and TV. I always wondered why people, who want to sell me ideas about how to make a million, bothered. Why waste their time when they could be out making that million rather than trying to get my money? I guess much financial advice is like this. It is too good to be true.

Spencer puts this into perspective by showing how the money madness of both seller and buyer keep them from addressing what is really important in life: living with a sense of ease, living connected to your loved ones, and living so as to contribute to the world. Spencer's goal is to address the ways in which our hidden attitudes toward money keeps us from this deeper satisfaction.

Beginning with an exploration of your destructive patterns, Spencer presents ways they can be healed, particularly in our relationships to others. He suggests how one can save and invest without being driven by emotion (and he does this in very useful detail---something one can act upon at once). He touches on how money madness affects people at work, and how to address it to make one's self more effective. He takes on the myths about house buying (which given the housing bubble burst, makes his advice all the more relevant). He talks about philanthropy, offering ways to do it more awarely.

At a time of money fear, Spencer offers a way for people to see where they truly stand in it all, and how to take action based on a clearer understanding. The subject matter of this book is greatly needed and Spencer has done an excellent job of helping people find their way through a turmoil which may, in fact, be the result of our collective money madness. This is an important book to read.

Charlie Fisher, Associate Professor Emeritus, Brandeis University

I'm a financial planner and tax professional - I give money advice.

There are plenty of advisors out there who can tell you how to handle your finances. Spencer Sherman is unlike any of them. What Spencer has realized is that you can tell people to act rationally about their finances until you are blue in the face - they won't be able to do it until they uncover, examine and get free of their hidden money madness.

What's money madness? Money madness consists of the money messages and beliefs that we all have - that we carry with us from childhood or life experience - that prevent us from acting rationally around money.

Spencer's book is engaging, practical and funny - he helps us by digging in his own financial psyche. Don't miss this book because you've read a bunch of financial "how-to's."

This book will help you actually execute a rational plan.

Not so surprisingly there's always something to learn. I found Spencer Sherman's book The Cure for Money Madness: Break Your Bad Money Habits, Live Without Financial Stress--and Make More Money!to be very useful. I love self-help books. This one looks at our conditioning to and with money.
There's an underlying relationship we all have with money that, regardless of outside circumstances, creates our ease or dis-ease around it.
This book helped me recognize, name, work with this underlying weightiness and learn how to release it.
Wish Spencer had written it years ago but it comes now, just in time.

I'm a financial professional, and I heard about this book through the Morningstar Advisor Service. Spencer goes into the background on our attitudes about money, which is revealing in itself, then shows with data how to have a stress free portfolio. Great book...

This book can be summarized in less than 50 words: (1)Emotions control our money decisions, (2) those emotions arise out of a childhood experience, (3) you need to think rationally before making money decisions, and (4) you should diversify your investments. [That's it: 27 words. There's not another thought in the book.]

I highly recommend this book. If you are looking to change your ways of dealing with money then this book is right up your alley. Spencer has broken down an emotionally charged subject in to manageable ways to deal with the madness most of us experience with money.

This book is the perfect companion for the online course offered through The Daily OM. Spencer Sherman takes you by the hand and gently nudges you through the tasks (not always easy)necessary to free yourself of long held money beliefs.

Sherman's style, sense of humor, and concrete knowledge of the world of finance make this book a "must have" if your serious about breaking old money habits.

This is a revolutionary new book about money. It changed my outlook on my finances and my ability to TALK about money. That alone has made me more money, and enabled me to feel OK about the money I have without constantly wanting more.

This is not just another hot stock tip book, but a great new approach to having financial freedom.

The book says little about money. It is all about psychology around money. Problem is the pop psychology angle is no good.