The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less
John Robbins
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0345519841
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
How do you define the good life? For many, success is measured not by health and happiness but by financial wealth. But such a worldview overlooks the important things in life: personal contentment, family time, spirituality, and the health of the planet and those living on it. A preoccupation with money and possessions is not only unhealthy, it can also drain the true joy from life.
In recent years, millions have watched their American Dreams go up in smoke. The international financial collapse, inflation, massive layoffs, and burgeoning consumer debt have left people in dire financial straits—including John Robbins, a crusader for planet-friendly food and lifestyle choices, who lost his entire savings in an investment scam. But Robbins soon realized that there was an upside to our collective financial downturn: Curtailed consumerism could lead us to reassess our lives and values.
The New Good Life provides a philosophical and prescriptive path from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption. Where the old view of success was measured by cash, stocks, and various luxuries, the new view will be guided by financial restraint and a new awareness of what truly matters. A passionate manifesto on finding meaning beyond money and status, this book delivers a sound blueprint for living well on less. Discover how to
• create your own definition of success based on your deepest beliefs and life experience
• alleviate depression, lower blood pressure, and stay fit with inexpensive alternatives for high-cost medications
• develop a diet that promotes better health—and saves you money
• plan for—and protect yourself from—future economic catastrophes
• cut down on your housing and transportation costs
• live frugally without deprivation
• follow in the footsteps of real people who have effectively forged new financial identities
The New Good Life provides much-needed hope and comfort in a time of fear and uncertainty. Here is everything you need to develop high-joy, low-cost solutions to life’s challenges. Practical and timely, this book equips you with the skills needed not only to survive but to thrive in these challenging times.
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Your Life Span and Your Health Span Contents Introduction PART ONE: HEALING YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY 1. Rags and Riches 2. Getting to Know Your Money Type 3. Four Steps to Financial Freedom PART TWO: LIVING THE NEW GOOD LIFE 4. Wherever You Live Is Your Temple—If You Treat It Like One 5. Life Is Too Short for Traffic 6. Eating Better, Spending Less 7. Kids: The Biggest Financial Decision of Your Life 8. Safe, Clean, and Natural 9. The Economics of Happiness
members of the Turning Tide Coalition, including Tracy Apple-Howard, Van Jones, Joe Kresse, Laura Loescher, Catherine Parrish, Neal Rogin, Aqeela Sherrills, Lynne and Bill Twist, and Mathis Wackernagel, for so many kinds of partnership over the past ten years. This book could not have been written without the help and support I received from many generous, kind, and loving people. Individually and collectively, they reached out to me and to my family in our time of need. Space does not permit me
to meet each of the archetypes in yourself with kindness and compassion, you will become better able to understand yourself, and better able to appreciate others whose basic types differ from your own. The more aware you become of the beliefs and patterns inherent in your dominant money types, the freer you will be to realize and express their more evolved aspects. The more conscious you become of your tendencies, the more often and the more steadily you will dwell in the happiest and most lucid
true to who you are. Your task is to become the fullest realization of the beauty that resides in your nature. Your job is to find the real treasure at the heart of your life. Whatever your basic types, your life is an experience of the human condition. You have good days and you have bad ones. You have times of grace and times of hardship. If you are someone who’s known more than your share of darkness and suffering, if you have found yourself more often at the bottom than the top, perhaps this
environmentally unsustainable, and morally bankrupt. It was dawning on me that I would have to change my life to the core. I did not find it easy, however, to explain my thoughts and feelings to my father, a conservative businessman who never went a day without reading The Wall Street Journal. He had come of age during the Great Depression of the 1930s, while I was becoming an adult in the 1960s. Our lives were shaped by very different times. “It’s a different world now than when you grew up,”
