Program Framework
The Financial Integrity (FI) program involves nine distinct hands-on practices. While we refer to them as the nine “steps”, they are not like steps in a ladder; they don’t lead you up to some mythical realm of riches where, once you arrive, you can let the ladder drop and forget how you got there! What they do accomplish is to integrate timeless financial wisdom into daily decisions and actions. These steps are actually skills and mindfulness practices that can serve you for the rest of your life.
How you put them together is up to you. Even if you do only one of the steps, we guarantee you will get something out of it. But why stop with just one? Just as all the spokes of a wheel are important to moving forward smoothly, so it is with the steps. When you give equal weight to ALL the steps, in their appropriate order, you can go to amazing places very quickly. And when you discover how well they work, you will move through them over and over again.
When we talk about having a “relationship with money,” we mean your general approach to your economic activities – how you earn money and how you spend it, save it or give it away – and the thoughts and feelings associated with those activities.
Many people don’t feel in control of their relationship with money, because either they don’t understand how it developed or they never even thought about other ways of relating to money. Your own approach may have made sense at one point, but now you are unsatisfied.
This program is about paying close attention to your usual approach to money, rethinking it, and then building a new relationship that truly fits your life. In this chapter, we’ll explore a typical relationship with money and begin taking a fresh look at the purpose of money.
How you put them together is up to you. Even if you do only one of the steps, we guarantee you will get something out of it. But why stop with just one? Just as all the spokes of a wheel are important to moving forward smoothly, so it is with the steps. When you give equal weight to ALL the steps, in their appropriate order, you can go to amazing places very quickly. And when you discover how well they work, you will move through them over and over again.
When we talk about having a “relationship with money,” we mean your general approach to your economic activities – how you earn money and how you spend it, save it or give it away – and the thoughts and feelings associated with those activities.
Many people don’t feel in control of their relationship with money, because either they don’t understand how it developed or they never even thought about other ways of relating to money. Your own approach may have made sense at one point, but now you are unsatisfied.
This program is about paying close attention to your usual approach to money, rethinking it, and then building a new relationship that truly fits your life. In this chapter, we’ll explore a typical relationship with money and begin taking a fresh look at the purpose of money.