Making Peace with Money [Hardcover]

Jerrold Mundis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1999

Making Peace with Money is about creating a relationship with money that is free of stress, worry, and pain. It offers practical advice on getting debt under control and living within your means, and then outlines principals and practices for changing emotions, psychological attitudes, opinions, and beliefs about money. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of our relationship with money such as earning, debt, work, generosity, flow, wealth, and others. After a brief descriptive essay on how we can heal our financial/emotional attitudes, the book provides hands-on activities and exercises, and then a group of quotes and meditations from such diverse sources as the Bible, Zen Buddhism, literature, the Talmud, and both ancient and contemporary philosophy. Making Peace with Money encompasses the results of Mundis's inner journey from recovered debtor to a person who is truly at peace with the demons that haunt both him and millions of others. This book is a tool for inner change-certainly one for a nation of debtors, but also for families who are making more money but spending what they make; for the people who are treading water, earning plenty but filling an emotional void with the shopping sprees and binge-spending; and for people who may not be in serious debt, but are nonetheless unhappy with their inability to save for the things that will make them feel fulfilled.

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"How much would you be willing to pay for the ability to live at peace with money for the rest of your life? You can do that. I promise you. This book works." -from Making Peace with Money

Tired of feeling stressed out, worried, or even in pain over money? Want to get your debt under control and learn how to manage your spending effectively?

Now there's a tool that will help transform your relationship with money. The key to such change comes from the inside, according to Jerrold Mundis, the best-selling author of *How to Got Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously* and *Earn What You Deserve.* Mundis made his own peace with money nearly fifteen years ago after living with debt and the pain and despair that accompany it. His newest book, MAKING PEACE WITH MONEY, is the result of his own journey of recovery from being a debtor to someone who has rid himself of the demons that once haunted him and that continue to haunt millions of others.

In MAKING PEACE WITH MONEY, Mundis outlines the principles and practices for changing emotions, psychological attitudes, and beliefs about money. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of a person's relationship with money such as earning, debt, work, generosity, flow, wealth, and others. The book also includes information about healing financial/emotional attitudes as well as hands-on"practices" -- activities and exercises designed to explore and change the way people think and feel about money and about themselves in relationship to it.

Mundis also includes sections of quotes and meditations about money and our relationship to it from such diverse sources as the Bible, Zen Buddhism, literature, the Talmud, and both ancient and contemporary philosophy.

MAKING PEACE WITH MONEY is designed as a self-help guide for serious debtors as well as for:

- families who simply feel as if they are making more money than ever before but spending what they make;

- people who are treading water, earning plenty but filling an emotional void with shopping sprees and binge-spending;

- people who are unhappy with their ability to save;

- and people who have ongoing difficulty tracking where their money goes.

About the Author

Jerrold Mundis is the author of *How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt & Live Prosperously,* which has sold close to 500,000 copies, and Earn What You Deserve. He lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740700405
• ISBN-13: 978-0740700408
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 5.6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jerrold Mundis has also written under a number of pseudonyms, most notably Eric Corder and Robert Calder.

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74 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Changes Our Money Attitudes, April 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Peace with Money (Hardcover)

"This program works. I give you my word on that," Jerry Mundis writes in the introduction. And I believe him. Although the focus is an inward journey towards changing our relationship with money, it's not a book that one just reads and puts on the bookshelf but works in order to get the most benefit from it. It contains both insights and practical exercises that bring changes in our attitudes and then our actions towards money.

The chapters are divided into different areas of our relationship with money--debt, spending, generosity, vision, etc.--with each chapter containing essays, exercises and then quotations, anecdotes or meditations on that particular area. This book seems to take off where Mundis's first book, "How To Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously", left off. I found his first book to be more matter-of-fact with a 12 step program foundation for debtors and only a relatively small amount of space dedicated to the attitude changing or more spiritual aspects of money problems. "Making Peace with Money" addresses debt in the first chapter but then is more focused on changing inner thoughts and attitudes about money. Therefore it's more useful to a larger number of people, those who may not have a debt problem but want to come to terms with their money relationship.

One of my favorite parts of the book is the last chapter that addresses special circumstances such as being out of work or problems with being able to spend money on oneself, what the author calls 'Anorectic Spending'.

I think this book would be especially useful to the person with serious debt problems when coupled with Mundis's other two books, "Getting Out of Debt,..." and "Earn What You Deserve". By diligently doing every practice in these books, one's attitude towards money couldn't help but change. Don't positive attitudes plus positive actions equal positive results? No wonder Mundis guarantees his program.