What follows below are basic notes from a reading of Khorosh Ostowari’s cool book on money anxiety. I read it about 5 years ago and jotted down some observations. It’s a great book, and very helpful reading if you or any of your business partners are having money stress!

• It’s pretty clear from 2008 and 2021 that fortunes can be lost overnight
• Coming to money from a very conscious and embodied place is not so much a tool for financial gain, but instead a way to lose fixation from financial gain
• Will this book teach you budgeting? No, you can use Monarch or other apps and other books for that.
• The book will teach you how to change mindset, how to get out of “money anxiety disorder” and into peace
• Americans have far deeper money anxiety than people from other nations
• Key Questions to think about
  • How do you define prosperity?
  • What is your unique gift to this world?
  • Are your job, lifestyle and current financial situation helping you realize your goals?
  • Are your job, lifestyle and current financial situation obstacles that prevent you from experiencing true financial, creative and spiritual freedom?
  • Is anxiety about money preventing you from being content with your life?
• Key thing that people with money problems have in common (also incarcerated people) - they haven’t been able to manage stress well/properly
• Inflation is going to keep going up, and there’s not much we can do, so this is a very real way to perform a mindset shift
• We have a choice to have a fear-based vs. an abundance based relationship with money.