The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge: 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship with Money
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The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge: 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship with Money
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Overview
"The process changed the way I look at everything—my own life, my relationships with others, and my understanding of the world." That is how Wynonna Judd described her work with coauthors Ted and Brad Klontz, using the principles outlined in The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge.
As the United States braces for an economic crash, the time-tested Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge will help anyone stand on solid financial footing, securing prosperity for themselves and a healthy financial legacy for their family.
Almost universally—regardless of income bracket or upbringing—people suffer from the same money affliction, and the real problem isn't money at all. The real problem—and the one that is overlooked in financial planning seminars and glossed over in other wealth-building books—is the relationship people have with their money.
For the first time in paperback comes the breakthrough method from noted psychologists Ted and Brad Klontz and financial planner Rick Kahler, which The Wall Street Journal hailed as "innovative," combining "experiential therapy with nuts-and-bolts financial planning." Their proven method, which was publicized in the American Psychological Association magazine, helps people recognize their dysfunctional mind-sets about money. Mind-sets like "It's not nice to talk about money," "I'll never have enough money to be secure," "I deserve to spend money," and "If you are good, the universe will give you what you need." By culling timeless truths from the classic Dickens's tale and combining them with sound financial and psychological principles, the authors give anyone the tools they need to transform their relationship with money and break through their barriers to wealth and financial freedom.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780757307669 |
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| Publisher: | Health Communications, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 09/09/2008 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 151 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Brad Klontz, Psy.D., is the 2008 President of the Hawaii Psychological Association. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, speaker, researcher, consultant, columnist, and personal coach. The CEO of Klontz Coaching & Consulting (www.klontzcoaching.com), Brad has been published in numerous professional journals. He is a leading expert in the psychology of money whose work has been featured on NPR and in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He is the coauthor of Facilitating Financial Health and the creator of the Financial Health Scale.
Rick Kahler, CFP®, MS, ChFC, CCIM, launched his professional career in real estate at age eighteen and went on to earn a master's degree in personal financial planning. He founded Kahler Financial Group in 1981 and became South Dakota's first fee-only financial planner in 1983. Between 1998 and 2003, he served as a member and then chairman of the South Dakota Investment Council. He oversaw a six-billion-dollar portfolio and was widely recognized for making exemplary strides in a time of unprecedented market volatility.
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Introduction
“Merry Christmas, uncle.”
“Bah! Humbug! What right do you have to be merry? You’re poor enough.”
“What right do you have to be so dismal?
You’re rich enough.”
“Bah!” said Scrooge again.“Humbug!”
—A Christmas Carol
Scrooge was a miser, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
No one with even a vague familiarity with Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol, the story of penny-pinching
Ebenezer Scrooge, could argue with such a statement about the tale’s main character.
Scrooge was a miserable man who seemingly had enough money to be more than comfortable. Still, he dipped his own candles, kept his sparse apartment cold and dark, cared nothing about the welfare of others and worried endlessly that someone would take advantage of him and his wealth.
Dickens describes him as a man whose heart was so cold he was even unaffected by the weather:
“No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him.
No wind that blew was bitterer than he.”
Yet, before the tale is over, Scrooge experiences profound changes in his outlook and behavior. By the final chapter, he is transformed into a joyful, compassionate, generous man.
What happened? Scrooge became a new man because he took a difficult journey. It wasn’t a journey he took willingly,
but as the night wore on, he became more eager to learn the life-changing lessons the spirits had to teach.
Scrooge’s enlightenment begins with an intervention, a visit from the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley.
It continues with the wise guidance of the Ghost of Christmas
Past. Scrooge sees how past events from his childhood created beliefs about money and attitudes that were destroying his life and keeping him spiritually and emotionally poor in spite of his great wealth. Next, the Ghost of Christmas Present models the true abundance that is so lacking in Scrooge’s life and shows Scrooge the reality of the world and how he fits into it. Finally, the Ghost of Christmas Future shows Scrooge what the consequences will be if he doesn’t change.
By visiting his past, clearly seeing the present and understanding the consequences of the future, Scrooge brings his life into balance.Most of all, he becomes happy, at peace with himself and with the world.
The root of Scrooge’s miserly existence was an unhealthy belief system about money. In spite of his wealth, Scrooge’s beliefs about money—created, nurtured and anchored in his long-forgotten past—kept him poor in spirit. His loyal employee, Bob Cratchit, also had some unhealthy beliefs about money that contributed to his poverty. Like Scrooge and
Cratchit, who represent two extremes, many people are trapped by money beliefs they are unaware of. They irrationally continue
destructive behaviors, unable to break free and recognize how they are sabotaging their own goals and dreams.
This classic tale of how one man finds his true course in life provides a powerful model that we can still learn from today. Not only was Dickens a master storyteller, he had insights into human behavior—and how to change it—that were far ahead of his time. To help Scrooge on his journey from misery to enlightenment, the spirits skillfully use techniques that are employed by modern psychologists and financial planners.
As the story of A Christmas Carol unfolds, Scrooge learns five principles that lead to financial wisdom. In this book we share this wisdom. We have seen it transform careers, families and lives. Don’t think that these principles work only for the wealthy. You will soon come to understand that the amount of money you have or make is irrelevant. It’s not about the money. It’s the relationship you have with money that is the key.
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