Originally Published July 21, 2003 -- Your Wellness
Guide
Special Book
Review:
The Wealthy Spirit
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After completing a
column on decreasing financial stress a few weeks back, which
included an interview with Santa Monica, California-based Author and
Workshop Presenter Chellie Campbell, I recently received her book in
the mail:
The Wealthy Spirit (Sourcebooks, $16.95).
Not only for
easing financial stress but also learning about and dealing better
with life, I haven’t been able to put the book down. |
Since I only write book reviews when I am truly excited about sharing,
recommending, and supporting a book completely, I wish everyone could have
the opportunity to read and use this book.
I
say “use” because the book really isn’t about pouring through a
traditional self-help book that teaches you about money, rather it’s quite
different.
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By comparison, I
own several other supposedly eye-opening money books that only walk
the reader through the same old, hum-drum talk about budgeting, not
spending so much, and reducing credit reliance.
However, in Wealthy
Spirit, there’s literally only five pages of what you might call a
traditional handbook, including the introduction and what she calls
“Operating Instructions.”
From there, there’s
365 revealing pages (a page for each day in the year) with each page
dedicated to learning a life skill followed by an affirmation. More
on affirmations in a moment.
What I really like
about each life skill taught for each day is that the lesson is
incredibly real. How many times do we read self-help books and not
identify with the pages? In Wealthy Spirit’s case, the author comes
from such a rare stew of many real-life experiences that she can
actually relate with the rest of us. See more about
Campbell at
www.chellie.com. |
Additionally, each day’s lesson is rich with stories, analogies, and
easily identified tasks that change your thinking, help you see the world
for what it is, and help you change or improve upon a behavior that will
better deal with each day – and invariably, money.
Campbell
also has a common thread, introduced and elaborated on in her Operating
Instructions, that talks about sending out ships, and about the types of
fish in the sea: dolphins, sharks, and tuna. Without giving it away, we
all want to be dolphins and send out lots of ships, and Campbell shows you
how.
Ironically, one of Campbell’s fans got a hold of me while I was writing my
previous “de-stress your money life” column and said she was in a Los
Angeles coffee house and overheard two men talking about dolphins, sharks,
and tuna, and she thought it was a sign that Campbell’s ideas have
universal appeal.
About the affirmations – I’m new to affirmations, so I wasn’t convinced
until after just three days of reading the book when I started to notice a
change in myself – how I made money and life decisions differently based
upon my new thoughts. For example, thinking from a high budget versus a
low budget.
Each
of Campbell’s days has an affirmation at the bottom of the page related to
the lesson taught.
She
recommends that you internalize and repeat the affirmations throughout the
day, and even develop a system whereby you memorize the affirmations over
time and have them seep into your subconscious.
As a final
recommendation, I think this book works best for people who can relate to
and embrace entrepreneurism, no matter your employment type. The reason I
say this is because her book is really part of a new economy in which
increasingly people have to empower themselves to make life better. If
you cannot embrace owning your life and taking charge of how much money
you make, then this is the only downside.
Terra
Wellington
is a
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