Earn What You Deserve: How to Stop Underearning & Start Thriving

by Jerrold Mundis

"Jerrold Mundis is the godfather of underearners."
 - Business Week
 
Praise for How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously :
 
"The most helpful self-help book I've ever read."
  - Whole Earth
 
"A must read for anyone wanting to get their head above water."
 - The Wall Street Journal
 
In Earn What You Deserve: How to Stop Underearning and Start Thriving financial therapist and bestselling author Jerrold Mundis presents a revolutionary new system that shows you exactly how to bring more money into your life - starting right now.
 
No matter who you are. Or what your circumstances are like.
 
For as long as you wish
 
Step-by-step, Mundis leads you through these groundbreaking concepts and techniques into a life in which there is enough. More than enough. And where you never have to underearn again. Ever.
 
And he shows you how to do this humanely - without having to work 60 hours a week or drive yourself like a crazed taskmaster.  How to do it even with some ease, and pleasure.

Genres: Finance, Nonfiction, Money, Business, Psychology, Personal Development, Self Help

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Also writes under pseudonyms Robert Calder and Eric Corder.

Reviews

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mundis has succeeded again in helping folks with money problems in this book, Earn What You Deserve. This book could be a mantra for helping many unemployed Americans lift themselves from the doldroms of "the economy". Mundis challenges all along the way in this book the thinking and behavior of underearners. He experiments with his definition and helps doubters to lay aside doubt to explore how this syndrome might affect one's life and how one might change. Structured and motivational like How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, & Live Properously, this book takes a realistic look at how to make changes, one day at a time. Mundis correctly in my mind advocates reading his first book before launching into overcoming Underearning. I think he is correct because clearly improving income while continuing to debt would be self defeating. One example of changes needed that he suggests is, "You have your own individual economy. In fact as far as underearning is concerned, the larger economy is largely irrelevant." He then explains that as he undertook the program he discovered, ". . . at the height of the recession, . . . I brought in more money than I ever had in any other year of my life." While I believe the way out of underearning takes time and incremental growth, as he suggests, I have seen his tools and ideas work for others. I cannot see why any underearner would not invest in this important work.

[Brian Cluster · Rating 5 out of 5]

A relatively unknown book about fixing what is hindering your financial earning power and it goes very deep into self-work. The author uses the 12 step approach of alcoholics anonymous into a 12 step approach to fix the underlying challenges, obstacles and flaws that keep you from earning what you deserve.

A tremendous book that I recommend to anyone working on the money side of your life. Can't recommend it more.

[Electra · Rating 1 out of 5]

Do not bother. It starts well by defining what underearning is and describing behaviors or traits of underearners. Then he goes off topic - you will be doing a lot of lists and soul searching to finally hit you with his steps approach which actually comes down to this: god will help you.
No practical tips on salary or contract negotiation, how to identify a potential underearning trap, how to get out of an underearning situation or what to do if you cannot get out of one.

[Bpatchett · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm rich now

[Sebastien Helary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eye-opening, but seriously lacking substance.

[Nick Woodall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good business book, especially to help you figure out where you fit in and what you are worth.