Author : M. P. Dunleavey
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0767922786
Explains how and why money that is wisely spent can promote a healthier, happier, more satisfactory life, with guidelines on how to reevaluate one's priorities and reallocate one's wealth to buy more time and peace of mind.
Author : Elizabeth Dunn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1476740704
If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?
Author : Chris Heerlein
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2017-04-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781544890432
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. Why doesn't wealth bring a constant sense of joy? The fact is that people aren't very good at figuring out what to do with money. As humans, we are conditioned to positive experiences. Pleasures are short-lived because we adapt to them. On the other side of the coin, comforts are not front-and-center in our consciousness until they are absent. This book will help you look at money through a new lens. Discover simple yet actionable strategies to keep more of your hard-earned dollars in your pocket for the long term, because it's not about what you make, but what you keep. Chris Heerlein takes readers of every age and income through steps to discover the greatest asset of all... TIME. This book serves to lead investors on a path to once and for all take control of their financial future, providing a perpetual level of happiness only true freedom can bring.
Author : Melissa Leong
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1773052802
Featured on The Drew Barrymore Show. The Social’s finance expert gives practical advice on how to spend, budget, invest, and feel good about money. Can money buy happiness? Maybe, but not like you may think . . . With Happy Go Money, financial expert Melissa Leong cuts through the noise to show you how to get the most delight for your dollar. Happy Go Money combines happiness psychology and personal finance and distills it into an indispensable starter guide. Each snappy chapter provides practical, easy-to-understand advice on topics such as spending, budgeting, investing, and mindfulness, while weaving in research, interactive exercises, and relatable anecdotes. Frank, funny, and empowering, this primer challenges everyone to revamp their relationship with their money so they can dial down their worries and supersize their joy. “Using humor and kindness, Leong shares a lovely starter guide to living a happier life with a better relationship to your money.” —Book Riot “A book that puts money, life and happiness in perspective. Loved every minute of it.” —Gail Vaz-Oxlade, author of Debt-Free Forever “Happy Go Money is informative but also accessible, smart and funny, silly and sexy, tough and also kind. It is, perhaps, the way money has always wanted to be represented. Melissa Leong has given her a makeover—and she looks SO good.” —Elaine Lui, LaineyGossip.com, and author of Listen to the Squawking Chicken “A must-read for anyone who wants to fall in love with their money.” —Shannon Lee Simmons, founder of the New School of Finance “Leong’s breezy, relatable writing style will appeal to a broad range of readers.” —Booklist
Author : Tammy Strobel
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1608680835
Strobel and her husband are living the voluntary downsizingNor smart-sizingNdream and here she combines research on well-being with numerous real world examples to offer practical inspiration.
Author : Darrell M. West
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815725817
Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know. With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson, Michael Bloomberg, David and Charles Koch, George Soros, Tom Steyer, and Donald Trump—as well as international billionaires from around the globe. The growing political engagement of this small supra-wealthy group raises important questions about influence, transparency, and government performance, and West lays bare the wealthification of politics, including: • How billionaires can block appointments and legislation they don't like • Why the supra-wealthy moved into policy advocacy and referenda at the state level • Why billionaires run for office in more than a dozen countries around the world
Author : Daniel Gilbert
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0307371360
A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it. Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off? Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.
Author : Patty Ann Tublin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2020-11-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781736173817
From the cradle to the grave, you've been given the message, covertly and overtly, that money cannot buy you happiness. Women, unlike men, have bought into this myth hook line and sinker, paying an extremely high emotional and financial price. Because women view money as a dirty work, asking to get paid what they are worth is hard, contributing to the gender wage gap.This book provides women with a simple proven step by step negotiation system that teaches women to embrace their financial worth and get paid what they deserve. Rather than shying away from the conversation of money, this book gives women permission to actively pursue it and embrace all the wonderful ways money can enrich your life, the life of your family and the causes you care about.
Author : James A. Roberts
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0062093622
In Shiny Objects, a cross between In Praise of Slowness and The Tipping Point, consumer behavior expert Professor James A. Roberts takes us on a tour of America's obsession with consumerism—pointing out its symptoms, diagnosing specific problems, and offering a series of groundbreaking solutions. Roberts gives practical advice for how to correct the materialistic trends in our lives which lock us into a cycle of financial hardship and stress. Shiny Objects, a new The Paradox of Choice for the modern reader, is more than a critique of capitalism—it's also an exploration into how we can live happier, fuller, more productive lives today.
Author : Wes Moss
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1264269277
The bestselling author of You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think and host of Money Matters reveals the 10 essential habits for a rich, rewarding, and blissful retirement. What does it take to have a truly happy retirement? Is it money? A mortgage-free home? An active social life? A long-lasting marriage—or maybe a new one? Finance expert, author, and radio host Wes Moss asked more than 2,000 of the nation’s happiest retirees to find out—and their answers may surprise you. Through a series of revealing surveys, Moss noticed a pattern of distinct, recognizable habits that the happiest retirees shared, from the simplest of lifestyle choices to the smartest of financial strategies. These are the kinds of habits anyone can develop—the perfect road map to a healthy, secure, and joyful retirement—sooner. Whether you’re already retired or just starting to make plans, these 10 simple actions and attitudes can make a profound difference in every aspect of your life. The book is packed with hard-won wisdom and invaluable advice on how to make little changes now that will have the biggest impact later. It’s filled with proven ways to develop smarter habits with: Money (“Think river, not reservoir”); Family (“Get your kids off your payroll”); Housing (“Live mortgage-free”); Investing (“Be a tomorrow investor”); Spending (“Be pound wise—so you can be penny foolish”); and much more. With these 10 transformational habits, you can stop obsessing over money, stay socially connected, and start enjoying your new life—as the happiest retiree on the block.
