Portable Blessings Ledger

Rose Press

The Portable Blessings Ledger

A Way to Keep Track of Your Finances

and Bring Meaning and Heart

to Your Dealings with Money

Naomi Rose

{For fuller details, also see Rose Press Books:

"The Money & the Inner Life" Series}

The "Money & the Inner Life" Series

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What if

~ every time your hands, mind, and heart

touched money ~

something wonderful happened?

This practical and inspiring book will give you all you need to bring your heart and finances together in an immediate, hands-on way. Its magic is that you don't need to take it on faith, or carry out someone else's instructions. It's all based on your own direct experience!

As soon as you start using this soul-based ledger, the blessings start to come into your life ~ both inside you, and outside you. The very act of bringing your awareness to money as a vehicle of blessings begins to transform your relationships with:

~ money ~
~ the people you do business with ~
~ your own personal history and conditioning ~
~ the thoughts inside your head, and ~
~ your growing ability to receive blessings in monetary (and beyond monetary) form.

Is it magic? Or is it the result of ceasing to separate the best of your inner life (even the more difficult parts) from your relationship to money? Can money actually enhance your experience of life, of your place in the world, and of who you actually are?

If you will take on this holy experiment ~ yes, it can.

The format of an actual blessings ledger enables you to keep track of everything you make and spend down to the penny. This helps you budget, keep accurate records for taxes and personal/business assessment, and learn where your money goes ~ all the nuts-and-bolts of record-keeping.

But because these data-details are part of a larger story ~ a context of finding your true nature, your true desires, and learning that the Universe can meet them well ~ your inner life is given room to surface, become conscious, express itself to you through your brief stories about the blessings that came about. So while you are tracking your finances, you are also rewriting the story of your life by becoming intimately aware of the soul-story pattern that reveals itself in the process.

Keeping this ledger transforms everything ~ how you see your life, the abundance flowing to you, and the expansion of your heart that makes you a source as well as recipient of blessings.

CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE

Reader Reviews

Contents of the Book

Purchasing Details

Additional Positive Reader-Experiences of Using the Book

Reader Reviews
From Hal Brill, President of Natural Investment Services, Inc. (a Socially Responsible Investment company) and co-author of Investing with Your Values: Making Money and Making a Difference:

“The Portable Blessings Ledger turns our relationship with money upside-down! This financial roadmap guides you to a place where money is the vessel that illuminates your inner wisdom, brings peace to your home and family, and expresses your deepest values in the world. What a gift!”

From Salima McKelvey, CPA (Naomi's accountant):

“It really works! Naomi gave me remarkably complete figures about her income and dedictible expenses so I could do her taxes. She was an extremely easy client to work with in that way. She swears it's because she keeps a Portable Blessings Ledger.”

And from people who have used the book in their own lives:

“This is a remarkable achievement. You've found a way to bring the inside outside, and relate it to money, in a way that brings into the world the mirror that was missing. We never learned how to be present with ourselves through our finances. The Portable Blessings Ledger should be everywhere, including taught in schools. You've pioneered something we can all use.” ~ Doreen Hamilton, Ph.D.: Author, Essential Speaking: The 7-Step Guide to Finding Your Real Voice

“I am so touched by how The Portable Blessings Ledger is all put together. It has lifted up my own standard and has inspired me to find way to balance my life and to write from a much deeper and more heartfelt place. I intend to start accounting my blessings starting on my Birthday on August 27. I would like to commit to the process for one year. To see the ‘world as a blessing detail by detail' is a state I understand but often forget. This seems a very refined and specific way to express gratitude. I keep getting little shocks of recognition at how you express our shared human experience. You write of experiences that I have never seen mirrored in writing before such as the ‘fear and low level panic' over your high grocery bill. I can't tell you how many times I have felt that!! Your writing is indeed a ‘vivid impress' and I feel very grateful to connect with your generosity of spirit.” ~ Shelley Klammer: Author, Collage for Self-Discovery

“I felt the book was very nonjudgmental. You're only asked to observe yourself. This allowed me to actually use it and notice what's going on in my finances and inside me. The beauty and care and loving nature that surrounds Naomi's book opened my heart to the mystery of money, and its ebb and flow. It feels so good to be back writing down the ebb and flow of money. It is always surprising to see how much goes out, with so little remembrance; and how lovely the gratitude always is, when the flow returns to our shores, supporting and sustaining us. ”~ Risala Mary Laird: Book Arts Educator, Letterpress Typesetter

The Portable Blessings Ledger was chosen as the weekly study book for one year by a circle of spiritual women, including Dr. Rebecca Field (quoted in "Additional Responses" at end of page) and Ramona P. Rubio, Ph. D., author of The Alchemical Woman: A Handbook for Everyday Soulwork.

For additional positive reader-experiences, see end of page.

Contents of the Book

Introduction

About Blessings

The Circumstances That Tend to Bring Blessings About

How Keeping a Blessings Ledger Can Help You to Be in Community Blessings and Income

How to Use the Portable Blessings Ledger

Making the Agreement to Use These Forms for a Specified Period

of Time

Sample Entries and Formats from the Author's Experiences:

The Data and the Stories

Spending-Form Options

Long Form

Short Form

Ledger Form

Sketchbook Form

Income-Form Options

Long Form

Short Form

Ledger Form

Sketchbook Form

Musings Pages

Celebrations!

End-of-Period Assessment Forms:

Financial Assessment

Life-Story Assessment

And Now, Forms for You to Use

Spending Forms

Income Forms

Musings Pages

Celebrations

End-of Period Assessment Forms: Financial & Life-Story Assessment

Additional Forms to Play With

Expense & Income Form, Combined

Apportionment of Income Before Making a Deposit

Anticipated Income

Future Payments to Stay Tuned To

Giving to Myself

Create Your Own Form(s)

Purchasing Details

Print version: Hardcover $24.95. Includes CD with all blank forms. Add $8 shipping. (CA residents add $2.43).
E-Book: $15.00. Printable blank forms included. (CA residents add $1.46 sales tax)

{Author's suggestion: For individual readers, the e-book is simpler and more affordable. For groups wishing to study and use The Portable Blessings Ledger together, the print version is more useful.}

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Print version: Hardcover $24.95. Includes CD with all blank forms. Add $8 shipping. (CA residents add $2.43).

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E-Book: $15.00. Printable blank forms included. (CA residents add $1.46 sales tax)

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Outside California: $15.00:

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Additional Positive Reader-Experiences from People Who Have Used The Portable Blessings Ledger:

“I find myself paying much more attention to how I feel when I am about to make a purchase or even go shopping. And if I have a choice between an item that feels just OK and one that really attracts me deeply, I'm giving myself much more permission to follow my bliss even if it means spending a few more dollars. Secondly, it suddenly dawned on me that all I really have to do (now that I have on-line banking) is to keep track of the cash that I withdraw from my account, because everything else is recorded on my on-line banking ledger. I think it will be a great exercise to sit down at the end of the month and transfer my expenditures to my ledger and do my reflections then.” ~ Alicia Carter, LCSW

“The Portable Blessings Ledger allowed me to make friends with money ~ and to realize that everybody goes through [the kinds of things the author reveals about her own experience and process]. What's great is that there are these ledger pages. I'm normally intimidated by ledger pages, but these are presented in a softer way. If you have this notebook in your purse, you can take it when you're shopping, you can take it to a business meeting.” ~ Katayoon Zandvakili: Author, In the Lap of the Gods

“I have not yet committed myself to doing the Blessings Ledger, even for a week. I would, however like to report a couple of things. Your introductory material is clearly written from the heart, and certainly touched mine. I would find myself sobbing on and off as I read it ~ and feeling like someone really understood. Also, the day after I got far enough into the book to have it in the forefront of my mind, everything went amazingly. I had exceptionally good connections with everyone I talked with, people kept smiling at me (usually I'm the one who smiles first), and I did many errands in no time flat ~ i.e., effortlessly ~ all involving money. Everything opened up, from parking spaces to hearts, including my own. I can't even say for sure if it was all the ledger, though I'm sure that was a factor.” ~ Karen W., former university professor

“I just wanted to tell you how very touched I am about this Portable Blessings Ledger that you have sent me. It's absolutely lovely, so clever and original. I just think it's wonderful! Of course, I want to see it as a best-seller.” ~ Rebecca Field, Former Director, The Mercury Institute

“I'm so moved and inspired reading your writing. It's like walking into a garden of different-colored flowers that are opening up into bloom.” ~ Shira Stone, MFT, Sound Therapist

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