The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge : 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship with Money

by Ted Klontz, Rick Kahler, Brad Klontz

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Discover the 5 Essentials to Financial Freedom and Prosperity!

Do you wish you had more money saved for retirement? Do you and your partner fight about money? Do you want to make an investment but are unsure in what? Do you make yourself promises about finances that you just can't seem to keep? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have a problem-but it's not the problem you think it is. Your money problems are a consequence of the relationship you have with your money. A problem in that relationship is what's really holding you back. In this compelling book, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, you will learn the breakthrough approach that is transforming lives-a method which The Wall Street Journal hails as "an innovative effort that combines experiential therapy with nuts-and-bolts financial planning." Finally, a practical plan to be your money's master instead of its servant.

Ebenezer Scrooge would seem an unlikely source from which to glean financial wisdom: He was a wealthy man who kept his living quarters cold to save shillings and lived a reclusive existence because he worried someone would take his money. However, Dickens' classic tale of how Scrooge found his true course in life is a powerful model we all can benefit from today.
Unlike other financial planning books that focus narrowly on the "dollar and cents" of money, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge is an easy read. Written for the layperson, this book provides advice that is simple, transformational, and timeless.

Through the process they've used successfully with their clients, the authors will show you how to recognize ways unconscious Money Scripts may keep you trapped; how to deal with the relationship between your net worth and your self-worth; how to discover your authentic goals and values; how to permanently change self-destructive money behaviors; and, through 5 essentials of financial prosperity, how to leave a family legacy of financial wellness.

"These are five essentials indeed, they have literally changed my life Clients, friends, and family will all be receiving this book as a gift from me. They will no doubt thank me later."
-Kerry Hansen,
Career Management Specialist for Wynonna Judd

"The authors have hit a grand slam with this outstanding book. Brilliant, clear, moving... a must-read."
-Jerry Moe
M.A., National Director of Children's Programs, Betty Ford Center

"This will be on my clients' 'must-read' list."
-Elizabeth Jetton CFP®,
Chairperson of The Financial Planning Association, 2005

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Average Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars

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4 out of 5 stars

Interesting, 2008-11-16
The Financial Widsom of Ebenezer Scrooge merges two of my favorite topics - Charles Dickens (sort of) and personal finance. While I have mastered the Dickens part quite well, I am still in the "learning" process when it comes to money.

In this nifty little book (150 pages) the authors basically dissect the human relationship and money. That's right! this book is about figuring out and understanding that most of our issues with money is actually emotional - a pre-set condition that we experienced as young children. The key is to "reprogram" these conditions and to look at money in exactly the way we should be looking at it.

This book will teach you how to recognize the patterns or the money scripts that you have been living with and using for most of your life and will help you permanently change this and, in the process, give you a much healthier relationship towards money.

I liked this book for many reasons, one being that it uses alot of the Christmas Carol references as examples, so if you are a fan of Dickens, this is a big plus!

Also, this book is not too technical - I hate reading a personal finance books that reads like a company prospectus!

I also like that its short and to the point.

This is a great buy.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge: 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship With Money, 2008-07-30
I suggest that my psychotherapy clients read this book. Many of my clients, who are mostly affluent professionals, have underlying issues which get played out in the financial arena.

I wish I could have written this book. It is very user friendly and motivates the reader to do the exercises at the end of each chapter. Many clients recognize that they identify with Ebenzer at times and Bob at other times. Thanks for writing this book!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Clever, Wise, and Helpful, 2008-05-02
This is one of the most clever approaches to helping people find their way to financial freedom. I have read many many books on personal finance and it has always confounded me as to why more people don't take an interest in their financial future. This book shows how mind traps that were set in youth can keep people from making the right financial choices. The authors talk about "money scripts" that people carry with them and that influence their money behavior. The authors cleverly use the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and Bob Cratchit showing what their money scripts might have been and how those scripts influenced their behaviors in A Christmas Carol. The exercises are excellent. It took me a while but I eventually identified some of my own money scripts. Frankly, this method could be used to help identify life scripts that keep us from achieving our ultimate potential as well.

The authors come through as genuinely wanting to help their readers. I have read books that were promoted as self-help financial books but in the end were books to promote an author's seminars rather than providing sound advice and help.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to start today to shape a better financial future for themselves and their families.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

The financial wisdom of ebeneezer scrooge, 2008-03-13
I started reading "The Financial Wisdom of Ebeneezer Scrooge" expecting to see financial "ghosts" of past, present and future. I wasn't disappointed. What I didn't expect to see was financial failures of Bob Crachit. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that in spite of our perrenial wink and nod associated with the poor among us, The "Bob's" do bear some responsibility to be educated about their situation.

The book seems to be practical in its application of conservative financial wisdom. I say "seems to be" because it's up to me to apply the tools. I think I can, I think I can...

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Thought Provoking, 2008-01-27
Enlightening regarding the way you view money and how this affects so many other areas of your life. The impact of early script imprinting and its affect on your adult life is both fascinating and helpful.

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