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Mind Your Own Career: Your Guide to Right Working for Right Living can help you to explore important questions about how you, your work, your career and your life are integrated, and to understand, and even to change, the answers you find.

The guide lays a foundation with a basic philosophy and some practical tips for changing your answers to these questions, so your answers become more suitable for who you are, what you need and what you want – in your work, as well as in your larger life.

Money Myths

In Secrets of Self-Employment: Surviving and Thriving on the Ups and Downs of Being Your Own Boss, Sarah and Paul Edwards identify eight common myths about money and describe how you can know whether you believe them and how to stop believing them.

Since what you believe about money can have a huge impact on your work choices, and how you view work can affect your money choices, it is essential that you keep work and money in perspective.

Which of these eight common myths about money do you believe?

You believe that money buys everything, including love, success and happiness, and worry about how much or little money you have instead of believing that money is a resource and what you do with it matters more than how much you have.
You believe that “money is the root of all evil” and feel ashamed or guilty for having too much or too little money instead of believing that money is a reward for your contributions.
You believe that money is a private matter and feel uncomfortable talking about it instead of believing that you can, and it is often necessary to, talk openly, clearly and comfortably about money.
You believe that money comes from luck or other forces you cannot control and find money complicated and confusing instead of believing that money is a measure of how you are doing.
You believe that “money grows on trees” and expect to have money whenever you need it instead of believing that you need to proactively collect money that you have earned.
You believe that money is hard to get and people resist parting with their money instead of believing that people happily pay for whatever they find valuable and worthwhile.
You believe that money comes from misery and you shouldn’t be paid for doing something that you enjoy instead of believing that people happily pay for whatever meets their needs.
You believe that money is limited, spend as little as possible and feel a loss when someone else gains instead of believing that money spent wisely comes back to you multiplied.