Knowing Your Value

Dear Community, Exhausted and reverent, we lugged those three, precious paper bags through the parking lot to our little car. Forest and I had only been dating a short while, and were living in Sebastopol, California. Despite earning only a modest income, we both valued high-quality organic food so much, we made a weekly pilgrimage to Whole Foods. Almost without fail, Forest and I would return to our car with three or four bags of food — and a couple-hundred…

September 28, 2015
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Grab a favorite beverage and indulge in our Money Mochas Series: mini-jolts of sweet, delicious money clarity. These bite-sized morsels are all heart-plucked from the member’s only area of my beloved year-long money school: The Art of Money. This series is our way of celebrating opening our doors (and hearts!) for the early bird group of Art of Money 2016 students. (The program begins in January 2016, but we’re opening the doors between November 1 and November 15th, 2015 for those who are ready to…

November 5, 2014
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Failure. It’s such a painful word, isn’t it? It shakes and rattles us. We take it personally. We try to move on, to call it a “learning experience” — but it cuts deep. And for many of us, it feels like each failure chips away at our value. “That project failed, therefore I shouldn’t value my work (and, really, myself) as much.”“I’m a failure, so I’m not worthy of … love/money/happiness.” We assume that value is inversely proportional to our…

June 19, 2014
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