Now that summer is right around the corner, it is the perfect time to be anxiously engaged in your own self development. As college students, we all struggle with balancing our very complicated and jam-packed lives. More specifically, as most can agree, when it comes to our finances and our self-love, we tend to struggle in these areas.
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If you’re someone like me who does struggle with these, I have found the perfect read that will open your eyes and your heart to new perspectives, ideas, and tools you can use that help with loving yourself, being better with money, and figuring out what you truly value and prioritize. Â
Kate Northrup’s “Money – A Love Story” sounds like your typical financial help book. The book that will tell you to balance your checkbooks and to stop spending money and by following those easy steps you will magically be a finance expert. However, her book utterly and completely goes against the norm of those types of books and focuses on the emotional ties with your finances. In 8 chapters she goes into deep detail about the connections you make with what you value in life and how that will become a true reflection of what you spend your money on. Since reading this book, I have become more self aware of what I value, what I spend, how I spend, and how I live my everyday life. It truly brings a new perspective into play that will help improve or better your current situation financially as well as emotionally.
The tips and exercises in this book differ and are unique to any other self help book or financial guiding book I have ever picked up before in my life. She encourages self love and improvement, caution, rationality, and being true to yourself and your heart every step you take in life. Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times best-selling author of “The $100 Start Up” said, “This beautiful book provides the perfect mix of theory and practice. You need your own love story with money, and these pages will lead you to romance.” If you are someone who is looking for a guide to improving your overall wellbeing and state in life, go to the closest library or bookstore or even get it as an audio book. This book is truly inspiring and motivating to turn your life around, and just progressing yourself from where you are at in this moment to become even happier and more successful.
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