The Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind

by Seven Dollar Millionaire

At last, a mindful book about money that anyone can appreciate and understand The Little Book of Zen A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind delivers easy-to-follow steps for combining sensible saving strategies with mindfulness practices to achieving financial peace of mind. Finally, you can know how to fix your finances without feeling stressed out! In this book, you’ll find out that sound financial strategy is far more straightforward than the financial industry wants you to think. It reveals the path to mindful money simplicity, showing readers how to adopt behaviors that encourage responsible saving and spending. You’ll learn Perfect for anyone who doesn’t usually like books about money (or the complicated jargon they’re often filled with), The Little Book of Zen Money proves that you don’t need to be an expert, professional, or mathematician to get great financial advice.

Genres: Finance

304 pages, Hardcover

Published April 18, 2022

Reviews

[Brian Weisz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just a weird book. Many times, sprinkled throughout the book, the author wants us to breathe. Well, ok, I'm doing that. He also wants us to crawl, literally, on hands and knees, because it's good for your core, and zen or something.

There's some strange painted circles throughout the book. We're supposed to look at them - no! really look at them! - and then, I don't know, zen or something.

One strong point I liked: money isn't good or bad, happy or sad, it just is. If you are happy with money, that feeling didn't come from the money, it came from you. If you can decouple money from emotion, you can be happy whether you have money or not.

[Yossi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't really understand what the book tried to convey - a little bit about "zen" and a little bit (basic) money advice.
As one with a more advanced knowledge of personal finance and almost no "zen" practice, I didn't find it very useful or practical.

[Jared Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The analogies and easy to understand descriptions make this great for a novice or expert. Can't wait to use some in my teachings!

[Tink · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finished this book today just in time for the New Year. The mistake I made was parceling out the reading of this book over an extended period of time. I should have read it in a closer together timespan as I feel I would have benefited more when reflecting on the ideas.

What I did love was Chapter 3 - The Path is Practice. I read all 49 steps and then went back and wrote/reflected on the ones I felt had the most interest or relevance to my life. Doing this helped me gain some clarity on several financial intentions I have for 2023!

If you are starting on your financial freedom journey, this is a great book with which to begin.