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Denise Hart-Krall's avatar

I've been putting a lot of thought into my comment below today and wondering, "What little portion can I offer into the great wide world to plant hope?" Can I help someone see that it's possible to change your stars in this busy complicated world?

My passion is to help coach others toward FI, especially paycheck to paycheck folks. Are there still guides for sharing YMOYL as a free seminar out there in internet land?

I'm plotting my semi-retirement in a couple years (what I prefer to call my "next chapter"), and I want the rest of my trips around the sun to be spent helping others manage their life points wisely. My life has been changed so profoundly through YMOYL, and I want to shout the message from the rooftops!

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Vicki Robin's avatar

here's a link to the study guides. https://vickirobin.com/books/study-and-teach-your-money-or-your-life/. you know there's a large movement called FIRE, financial independence retire early. you can find a lot of groups online. and bless you for your desire to liberate, perhaps one at a time, people from the sinking in debt, and never quite arriving in their own skin.

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Denise Hart-Krall's avatar

Thank you for the link!

And It's ok, to tote the YMOYL

workshop to libraries, middle schools, trailer parks, wherever listening ears will listen? I'll gladly pick up a baton and carry the lessons, all 9 steps, into my little corner of the world!

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Vicki Robin's avatar

You are the best. If you need anything from me let me know.

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Denise Hart-Krall's avatar

""America's not perfect. But I’ll hold her hand until she gets well" is a sentiment expressed by Lt. Col. William H. Holloman III, a Tuskegee Airman, reflecting the resilience and dedication of these African American pilots who served during World War II despite facing racial discrimination both at home and in the military. "

I love that quote. If people want to leave when things get tough or dont go their way, as things do in real life from time to time, I wish they would just leave. The rest of us have work to do.

Curious... Are they planning to return when it's all easier? My brother calls those people blisters...they appear once the work is done.

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Vicki Robin's avatar

you know, of course, that i've made my choice. I'd rather been in the thick of community, creativity, resistance, culture making that alone in some expat community with nothing juicy to do to make things an nth better.

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Denise Hart-Krall's avatar

I do...and I so appreciate your choice and of the many in generations past who also chose to roll up their sleeves. My sleeves are up.

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Mary Earle Chase's avatar

I meant funny! But dolphins are finny...

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Pbr's avatar

Nope. When I got married I agreed to for better or worse. As an adult, senior even, I live here in the USA for better or worse. I have seen and experienced in my lifetime market crashes, at least three of those, riots two of those, inflationary times, really bad ones two, not counting this one because I don’t know that it is going to get better anytime soon. Rotten politics, go back to Johnson, break down in schools started in 1970s, colleges breakdown in the 1990s, societal breakdowns, 1960s, never recovered, just put bandaids on it, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and eventually Taiwan. Yup I am still here, as bad as it can get here, this is home, this is family, good and bad. I will help out when I can, be a part of a community I know and love.

Yes, run if you must. But don’t look back just keep going. You’ll not find the peace, civility, or freedom you are looking for, it’s not there. I will endure, survive, might even thrive with less, I can do that. I have experienced enough in my lifetimes to know I will make it, it just might be different. I hope my husband will be with me, along with the dogs, oh, and toilet paper.

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Pbr's avatar

Because humans are everywhere. And most people are saying they are leaving because of the current political environment. They aren’t leaving because they can’t afford living here, or they get better healthcare, education, jobs outside of this country. They don’t want to be here because of political upheaval, things aren’t going their way.

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Vicki Robin's avatar

Some, rightly or wrongly, believe their demographic or their profession puts a bulls eye in their back. It's dear, not just preference.

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Vicki Robin's avatar

I meant fear, not dear.

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Pbr's avatar

Okay, as old as I am, this blows me away.

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Barrie Trinkle's avatar

You had me until the second paragraph. Yes, it's admirable to stay and resist and help your community, but why is it NOT admirable to say hey, this isn't working for me anymore and I'm going to look for something better? When you get married you make a vow, but when you're born, you're just a baby--you haven't promised to hang around forever. And why are you so sure something better isn't out there?

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John William Reitter's avatar

Let's all go North ASAP, and bring our kids, grandkids and pets, our books, art, and recipes. We could leave our cars and trucks and planes and pollution behind; and bring shovels and hoes and hammers and saws if you will teach us how to build, garden and canoe in the cold, eh?.

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Annis Cassells's avatar

Love this, Vicki. Thank you. xoA <3

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Bruce Elkin's avatar

Nice poem, Vicki. Of course we'd love to have you tether your little rock to our bigger one. And you can forget the Benjamins and saying "eh?" We'll take you as you are and knock the worst of USAness out of you and let you keep the best. Elbows up!

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Mary Earle Chase's avatar

Brilliant and finny! You are a hoot!

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Rhea Miller's avatar

Oh you clever woman. This about says it. I am still wanting to continue to resist!

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