Do you find yourself rushing from one thing to another, over-booked, over-busy and over-buying just because you have no time to focus on what really matters in your life?

Yes? This course offers you a transformational roadmap for bringing your lifestyle into alignment with your deepest Self, creating a feeling of personal ease, as well as a better relationship with the planet.

The truth is that we all want to be happy, satisfied with our lives, fully alive and contributing. But does the stuff of our daily life — our things, our consumption, our relationships, our commitments — give us the happiness we want? When the answer is no (and it is all too often) we keep trying to adjust our stuff — get more of it, get rid of it, get over it, get ahead — in order to become happy.

In a culture of information overload, hyper-consumerism and uber-connected lifestyles, most of us feel a certain amount of stress in regards to our material possessions, our bodies, our livelihoods and even our relationships. Much of our creative genius — our real potential — is oftentimes squandered, sidelined or blocked. And it doesn’t have to be that way.

In this course, Vicki Robin, co-author of the international bestseller Your Money or Your Life and expert on sustainable living, offers you a 7-week roadmap that will teach you how to transform your relationship to money, stuff and just about everything else. Vicki is a provocative and compassionate truth-teller and way-shower, helping people see their patterns clearly and, thus, freeing themselves from stress and the things that don’t serve them.

Through short lectures, reflective exercises, coaching, lots of interaction and weekly experiments you’ll gain a new way to relate to your money, time and stuff as well as understand how much is enough of anything, what really makes you happy and how to expand your options for having what you TRULY want. You may find out that what you truly want is more — or less — or different from — what you now believe you want. You’ll never know without looking.

You will also have fun discovering multiple strategies for having what you truly want, and feel confident about your capacity to keep having what you want well into the future.

From the Desk of Vicki Robin

Dear friends,

I want to help you create an amazing change in your life, so that you feel happy, whole, and fulfilled. It’s a revolution in how you relate to the world of stuff.

This change is possible even on a modest income by bringing the “things” of your life into alignment with your essence and your truest values. When you do, you lose a lot of the frenzy and stress that is typical of Western culture.

Your life will be simpler, clearer, more creative, and filled with a deeper kind of satisfaction then when you are seeking, acquiring, fixing, and managing things that don’t bring you real joy.

To make this shift requires a journey that illuminates your core beliefs, digs into ingrained behaviors, experiments with new life strategies — all leading to a new psychology for yourself that is based on true prosperity and satisfaction.

When my book Your Money or Your Life (co-authored with the late Joe Dominguez) became a runaway international bestseller and even the most requested book from public libraries that year, I knew that we had put our finger on the pulse of a profound set of issues that have been sabotaging our happiness — and creating lifestyles of waste that are eroding our planet.

The great news is that since becoming the go-to woman on the subject two decades ago, I’ve learned a lot about exactly how to help people make profound shifts in their lives around the world of stuff. Over the years, my teaching has gone beyond money and consumer goods and extended to include time, food, relationships and other commitments that we tend to relate to as “things.” In this course, we will deal with the “whole enchilada” — the deepest patterns we have in relating to the world of stuff.

The same insights and practices can free you from unhelpful patterns in each realm. And the results are truly remarkable, freeing you to be more natural, relaxed, aligned, and creatively engaged with your purpose, with more satisfying relationships and more purposeful use of your time.

I’m really looking forward to helping you transform your entire relationship to the things of your life and liberate more of YOU for the world. The world certainly needs a liberated YOU.

Warm regards,

What People Say About Vicki’s Work

“My friendship with Vicki and her ideas of financial independence and conscious consumption changed my life, liberated me from the money chase and unleashed my courage and creativity.”
— David Korten, economist & author of When Corporations Rule the World

“This is just the book we need now — to free ourselves from fear and to liberate our real energies… Robin is our savvy, compassionate guide.”
— Francis Moore Lappe, author, Diet for a Small Planet

Vicki Robin entered my life at exactly the right time. After decades of striving for achievement and accumulation, I was searching for more meaning. Vicki taught me that the key to “more” is actually “less.” Doing less, consuming less, worrying less. Finding the quiet place that represents “enough” for me. What I love about Vicki is not only does she walk her talk, she’s also realistic about the challenge of change. She recommends small steps that feel right for you. She won’t ask you to completely transform your life, although you may just find that you do!
— Barbara

I took the course with Vicki because I kept saying I wanted balance in my life and I couldn’t figure out how to make it happen. By tracking my time and money while pondering her encouraging words, I came to see exactly where I was leaking time, energy and money and made pretty radical but simple changes almost spontaneously. I now have balance and my debt is slowly being paid off. I spend time with people I care about, take care of myself well, and I focus my work energy towards goals that are really in alignment with my purpose. Vicki is encouraging, practical and validating. We all have enough inner critic about our finances or out of control lives. She helped me figure out how to create balance and alignment in my life without guilt or shame.
— Kay Taylor

Setting my spending and use of time to align with my values has been powerful and freeing, as has living a debt-free life.Vicki gets to the heart of what is ultimately important…how we choose to use our life energy. Thank you, Vicki.
— Jan Johnson, Trenton , ME

Vicki’s presence was a weekly comfort to me as I gently examined my life and it’s many facets. I was able to make the changes that I most needed to, because of her refreshing guidance. As a result, my time is cherished (and protected) more than ever.
— Suzanne K. , California

Vicki brings fun and creates a safe atmosphere where participants in her course can reveal themselves without fear of being judged. No shame, no blame.
— Dr. Dexter Nardella , Indianapolis, IN

About Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin is the coauthor of the international best seller, Your Money or Your Life (5 years on the Business Week list) and is a leading voice for sustainable consumption. She was featured as one of 61 Visionaries by Utne Magazine, named the “prophet of consumption downsizers” by the NY Times, has received awards from Sustainable Northwest and Green America, and has appeared regularly for 20 years in the media including Oprah Winfrey show, NPR and PBS specials as well as over 1000 other media stories. She is a member of a community choir and an improvisational theater troupe on Whidbey Island Washington.