«Я и мои деньги» — Me and My Money

Money is complicated even when you have plenty, and very difficult when you do not have enough. Yet much of what shapes our financial success lies in our own minds: unconscious beliefs that undermine prosperity, outdated rules weighing us down and personal strengths left unused. We often do not even know what is there. I invite you to take stock: discard some things, defuse others and finally put useful resources to work.

That is why this book is a workbook. Each exercise has space for you to write your answers, building a personal financial profile by the final page. I offer no universally correct rules: there are none. There is no single right way to handle money, but many approaches depending on who you are. An impulsive person need not become a devoted planner: no personality is inherently unsuitable. You cannot become wealthy exactly like your neighbour; you can only become wealthier as yourself.

• Twelve exercises with space to answer on the page, culminating in your personal financial profile
• Over twenty unconscious beliefs examined individually, from “honest people live from payday to payday” to “look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves”
• Four personality traits and their effects on money: impulsiveness, caution, calculation and absent-mindedness
• Three attitudes towards money and five real-life strategies, including “Sisyphus” and “That is when life will really begin”