The Secret Language of Money: Understanding Your Emotional Relationship to Money, Wealth, and Success / Edition 1

by John David Mann, David Krueger

Overview

If money were about math,none of us would be carrying any debt.

The numbers are simple. What’s complicatedis what we do with money. We usemoney to soothe our feelings and buy respect,to show how much we care or howlittle. We don’t simply earn, save, andspend money: we flirt with it, crave it, andscorn it; we punish and reward ourselveswith it.

Without realizing it, we give moneymeaning it doesn’t really have—whatformer psychiatrist and current businesscoach David Krueger calls our “moneystory.” And in the process of playingout that money story, we often sacrificethe most important things in ourlife: our health, freedom, relationships,and happiness.

What is your money story?

• Do you consistently spend more thanyou have?
• Do you follow the herd in yourinvestments—even though you knowthe herd is usually wrong?
• Have you neglected to save for the future,even when you have the means?
• Do you feel controlled or shackled by debt?
• Is your money somehow never “enough”?
• Is money, or the lack of it, alwayson your mind?

The Secret Language of Money is a guidedtour to the subconscious meanings wegive money, the conflicted ways our braindeals with money, the reasons we tend tomake the same money mistakes over andover—and most importantly, how youcan change all that.

A brilliant blend of cutting-edge scienceand real-world application, The SecretLanguage of Money helps you rewriteyour money story and find that elusivebalance of wealth, health, and joy weall seek.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071623391
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	07/23/2009
Edition description:	List
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Krueger, M.D., formerly practiced andtaught psychiatry and psychoanalysis formore than 25 years. He is currently CEOof MentorPath, an executive coachingpractice serving corporate executives andhealing professionals, and he serves asMentor Coach and Dean of Curriculumfor the Coach Training Alliance. Kruegerlives in Houston, Texas.
John David Man has been writing aboutbusiness, leadership, and the lawsof success for more than 20 years. Heis coauthor of the Wall Street Journalbestseller The Go-Giver and the SilverNautilus Award-winning A Deadly Misunderstandingand author of The Zen ofMLM. Mann lives in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. Your Money Story

1. Money Talks? But What Is It Saying?
2. Your Life Is a Story and You Are the Author
3. Your Money Story and Where It Came From
4. What Does Money Mean to You?
5. What Are You Compromising for Money?
Part II. Your Brain on Money: The Strange Inner World ofWealth

6. Into Thin Air: The Abstraction of Money
7. Cautionary Tales: Money Stories from the Edge
8. The Psychology of Wealth
9. Green Matter: Money and the Neuroscience of Your Brain

Part III. Solving Money Problems
10. Why Do We Spend?
11. His Money, Her Money