Seven Dollar Millionaire - The Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind

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THE LITTLE BOOK

of
ZEN MONEY

A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind

By

THE SEVEN DOLLAR MILLIONAIRE

This edition first published 2022

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Zen is seeing reality directly . It is simply a quiet awareness, without comment, of whatever happens to be here and now.

Alan Watts, The Way of Zen

The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.

Epictetus, Discourses

Its not about the money, money, money.

Jessie J, Price Tag

I'm so grateful you wrote this book. It's going to be helpful to many people.

Quite a stroke of genius, to combine money with zen. The thing that gets lost in most talks about money is exactly the (for want of a better word) spiritual side of being human. It's high time too that a zen guide, instead of discussing the petals on a dandelion or the segments of an orange, devoted itself to money, a grubby power tool we all use, often without training.

When I was a child, I heard grownups tell me that money isn't important. With hindsight, I think I can see the specific point they were making, which a different spiritual tradition might express thus: Don't turn money into your God. But I misunderstood. I thought they meant that money was somehow despicable; and for too long I despised it. Today I try to respect it, to see it clearly for what it is. I like to have it coming in, and I like to let it out again.

Your book is bighearted and righteous, qualities that perhaps derive from the anger that motivated it; but it is also gentle, encouraging, charming, and supremely practical. I wish that I had been able to read it when I was young, and by doing so avoided the agony of fear and shame that hit me in my own personal financial crisis. I hope that many others, finding your book, will avoid that.

JohnPaul Flintoff

Thank you for looking at this little book. Even just considering how you can improve the nature of your financial journey is a brave step, particularly if you have tried before or feel you are starting late. I hope this can help you on your way.