Sunday, April 22, 2018

The Tightwaddery---ENOUGH--- More Continuum - Historic Revisionism & Omission

The Tightwaddery---ENOUGH--- More Continuum - Historic Revisionism

MONEY (tim) Magazine Cover : F.I.R.E, Vicki Robin,& Joe Dominquez

I knew Joe Domingez who started it all = not Vicki Robin  for what has now become FIRE
That said - Joe's 'enough' (he published in 1992 like I did) is explained I believe in the context of a continuum of enough

On one end is More on the other end is tightwaddery
 
Enough is in the middle with variations - Joe's was more toward fiscal restraint even tightwaddery --- at the time there was a Kiplinger's cover story of a guy shining his shoes with a banana peel to say money... There was even the Tightwad Gazette.

The enough I professed at the time was 'one man's floor was another man's ceiling'.

So there wasn't the political agenda in my approach to Enough as there was in the tightwad and Joe's at the time

Furthermore, the enough approach I wrote of took more of the emphasis on aligning personal financial resources with life goals and values as you would see from my book 1st edition which was the culmination of my writings on enough from 1977 on.

From enough being 'clientle realizable goal determination with orderly plans for achievement' (1977) evolving to aligning personal fnancial resources  to achieve life goals and mission (1990's) to today enough is 'healing financial anxiety, puttin' money in its place, to transcend - elevate- connect and align to one's significance/assignment - what one is meant to do, meant to be - enough to live for, enough to live on (c)

So there is this continuum to consider -- but both would agree '- why sacrifice what you need (for enough) for what you don't need (for more - by more-ons__)

Interesting the historical revisionism and omissions by Money Magazine

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