The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge: 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship with Money
Ted Klontz, Rick Kahler, Brad Klontz
Language: English
Pages: 200
ISBN: B00AM1UAZC
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Discover the 5 Essentials to Financial Freedom and Prosperity!
Do you wish you had more money saved for retirement? Do you and your partner fight about money? Do you want to make an investment but are unsure in what? Do you make yourself promises about finances that you just can't seem to keep? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have a problem-but it's not the problem you think it is. Your money problems are a consequence of the relationship you have with your money. A problem in that relationship is what's really holding you back. In this compelling book, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, you will learn the breakthrough approach that is transforming lives-a method which The Wall Street Journal hails as "an innovative effort that combines experiential therapy with nuts-and-bolts financial planning." Finally, a practical plan to be your money's master instead of its servant.
Ebenezer Scrooge would seem an unlikely source from which to glean financial wisdom: He was a wealthy man who kept his living quarters cold to save shillings and lived a reclusive existence because he worried someone would take his money. However, Dickens' classic tale of how Scrooge found his true course in life is a powerful model we all can benefit from today.
Unlike other financial planning books that focus narrowly on the "dollar and cents" of money, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge is an easy read. Written for the layperson, this book provides advice that is simple, transformational, and timeless.
Through the process they've used successfully with their clients, the authors will show you how to recognize ways unconscious Money Scripts may keep you trapped; how to deal with the relationship between your net worth and your self-worth; how to discover your authentic goals and values; how to permanently change self-destructive money behaviors; and, through 5 essentials of financial prosperity, how to leave a family legacy of financial wellness.
"These are five essentials indeed, they have literally changed my life Clients, friends, and family will all be receiving this book as a gift from me. They will no doubt thank me later."
-Kerry Hansen,
Career Management Specialist for Wynonna Judd
"The authors have hit a grand slam with this outstanding book. Brilliant, clear, moving... a must-read."
-Jerry Moe
M.A., National Director of Children's Programs, Betty Ford Center
"This will be on my clients' 'must-read' list."
-Elizabeth Jetton CFP®,
Chairperson of The Financial Planning Association, 2005
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These people find it difficult to spend on themselves even when the spending is critically important, such as for health or dental care. The flip side of this script is “There will always be enough.” Living this script guarantees that these people will never have enough, because once they accumulate even a little extra money, they spend it. Children of wealthy parents may be more at risk to internalize this money script. When all of one’s wishes are easily met, it’s easy to develop an
abandon love, and with it, the love of his life. The adult Scrooge has only one friend, his business partner, Marley. He places little value on friendship that is outside of a business relationship and believes, instead, that “Money will give meaning to my life.” This money script causes Scrooge to miss one of humanity’s greatest sources of happiness: close and intimate relationships with other human beings. Scorned by his father and with no friends at school, young Scrooge grows up to believe
PRESENT Modifying Money Scripts We open our present when we are able to see the world clearly, live authentically and experience the abundance that is all around us. We can do this only when we change or modify our destructive money scripts and their associated behaviors. To change our most deeply ingrained money scripts, we first need an intervention that will challenge our distorted thinking. As we’ve discovered, Marley was Scrooge’s intervention. Next, we need to break through the denial
coincidence; I choose to consider it my very own miracle. To say the financial integration workshop was life changing would be an understatement. I went to the program scared about money, fearful of its grip on me and my interpersonal relationships, and not sure how to change my life. I left the program with the realization that it wasn’t “money” I was having trouble with, but the thirty-four years of wounds, negative scripts and unidentified hidden treasures that were causing me pain and
he opened it and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious. Glorious!” It is the same world that existed the day before; Scrooge just sees it differently. Scrooge’s enlightenment was complete. Dickens writes: “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a
