16 September 2008. I am reading a book by Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robin. It is called “Your Money Or Your Life”. This book deals with the distinctions we should know, have, do and be in order to be financially independent. A new distinction Joe and Vicky are introducing is: “Money is just something we trade our life energy for. Money is our life energy”. This is a very original way of looking at money. It gives us a new opening in dealing with it. The opening I see is, that if money is our life energy which is ending when we die, we wille take action to optimize our financial situation. That means that since earned money is most heavily taxed, we will start to invest for earnings from cash flow and become financially independent. This way in The Netherlands instead of paying 52% income tax we we only pay 1,4 % income tax. What does this mean to you and what thoughts are coming up when you read this?