If you’ve been following this blog, you know that my major project over the next year is to revise, update, and annotate my original bestselling book, Moneylove. The comments I get on a regular and frequent basis indicate that it would be a mistake to try to replace the book with an all-new version. So I am attempting a more challenging route–leaving the basic book as it is and has been (after all, with paperback copies selling for as much as $169.95 online, there seems to be a demand for a new edition at the very least). But the new effort, tentatively titled Moneylove Now! will probably be at least twice as long, and probably be published as several volumes, at least online.
So here’s my challenge: To make the book even simpler in concept, while expanding its content dramatically, to expand on those things worth expanding on. As I look through the book, I see countless statements that would provoke me to go on and on with my take on them if they were said or written by someone else. So this is what I will do, look at everything I wrote in Moneylove and make my comments to bring it into line with the Internet age and the new economy.
As I peruse the book, I can see where I could easily produce a volume of several thousand pages.
Just on the first page, for instance, at the beginning of the introduction, I have a list of eleven of the basic philosophical ideas behind my take on prosperity consciousness. I could write a whole chapter on just the first one:
Spending money is better for your prosperity consciousness than banking it.
This has a great deal of new relevance in today’s beleagured economy, and it is more true today than ever before in our economic history. We hear a lot of references to this now being a “consumer-driven economy,” but we rarely focus on what that actually means. And how we can prosper from that knowledge as entrepreneurs and innovators.
And I’ll confess to something you rarely hear from an author. As I go through the book, there are some things that surprise me, things I actually had forgotten I knew. This is great, as it affords me the opportunity to look at the text with new eyes and a fresh set of perceptions. And the biggest challenge of all? Making a new and expanded work that is as pioneering and profound as the original was. What will make that possible is the support, feedback, and suggestions from you. Go back to Moneylove if you haven’t recently done so, or download my new Moneylove Manifesto, and come up with those ideas and concepts you would like to know more about, those questions you would like to ask, those principles that you can use to transform your own life, but perhaps need some more specific methods to apply them to your personal situation.
In addition to seeking this support from readers and fans, I will be talking to some of the great prosperity teachers, and including some of their ideas in the new edition. In case I might miss a few, let me know who influenced your ideas about money and prosperity in a profound way.
And my primary commitment to creating an exciting new work, building on the base of the original, is to make it even more so. More so of what? More ideas and strategies readers can immediately start applying, more explanation of some of the basic premises, more provocative suggestions, and a lot more fun!
Jerry
