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The Mindful Investor
How a Calm Mind Can Bring You Inner Peace and Financial Security
We take readers through the basics of Mindfulness Meditation, including the five hindrances to success, and demonstrate how to combine these concepts with sound financial planning principles to create a clear, structured financial future. When you're mindful, you can make money work for you, rather than being worked by your money.
»» Internal Awareness - Subjective World 11:18 »» External Awareness - Present Moment 11:19 »» Creating / Imagining Positive Outcomes 7:28
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With this year's RRSP season heralding more than the usual alarms and advice on financial planning, two Canadian authors offer a timely cry for clarity and clear thinking. In their book The Mindful Investor: How a Calm Mind Can Bring You Inner Peace and Financial Security, Maria Gonzalez and Graham Byron urge investors to take a deep breath and tune out the "noise of the world." 
Thursday, February 25, 2010 Greg Herbert
Business @ Night - Business Book Review: The Mindful Investor CFRA Radio 
Economic turbulence in 2009 might have spelled trouble for corporations, investors and financial regulators, not to mention the newly inaugurated U.S. president. But it yielded more than one good read. According to business booksellers, books about the market meltdown — and the lessons learned from Wall Street's mistakes — have been a popular choice lately. So have books about surviving in the modern workplace, from showing leadership to how to negotiate just about anything.
There's a growing field of research and literature called "behavioural finance" that looks at the emotional side of investing but until the publication of the book pictured below, I'd never come across one that looked at the spiritual side of investing. In light of the 2008 stock market crash and ongoing jitters about the financial crisis, The Mindful Investor is a timely little book. 
Management grad Maria Gonzalez, BCom’81, MBA’85, recently co-authored a book called The Mindful Investor: How a Calm Mind Can Bring You Inner Peace and Financial Security, which has been a huge success. Written with Graham Byron, the work jumped to number 1 on the Globe and Mail’s list of bestselling business books and hit the top spot as well on Amazon.ca’s Hot New Releases list in the business and investing category.
Brett Hooton
McGill Alumni Live 365 Most of us feel some level of stress when we sit down to manage our personal finances. The Mindful Investor is a guide for bringing calm, clarity and focus to your relationship with money. You'll find this is an easy read that helps you discover what truly matters in your life, and develop a financial plan that will take you there!
Peggy Gilmour
SVP Finance Home Trust Company Maria and Graham have given me the gift of a primer in mindfully dealing with money. In a world when investing seems like a ride on the craziest of rollercoasters, The Mindful Investor provides me with tools that help me to be clear, to gather my focus and to even relax when planning my financial life. Maria's mindfulness exercises can be applied to investing and to life's challenges in general. I find myself going back to the meditations over and over to find that healthy state of calm.
Debbie Dimoff
Toronto, Ontario Before reading The Mindful Investor I felt embarrassed by my lack of financial knowledge and overwhelmed by articles and seminars. Now I have a better understanding and a clear and concise resource at hand. The book includes an exercise for decision making and a great chapter on portfolio construction. As an added bonus, the book delivers a wonderful guide for daily living.
Sudoro
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The Mindful Investor is a friendly, non-threatening guide, teaching you how to bring focus, clarity, and equanimity to your life and finances. In reality most people have enough money, even after the recent market collapse; what they don't have is the level of calm and focus required to live peacefully with money.