Tag Archives: happiness
- Chapter 5 – If You Had a Million Rats, Would You be Successful?
TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 – I Got Hit in the Head With a Baseball and I Saw it Coming Chapter 2 – What Your Money is Trying to Tell You Chapter 3 – Take a Lap on the Gerbil Wheel of Debt Chapter 4 – Why Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Chapter 5 – [...]
- Chapter 7 – The Attributes of Internal Prosperity in Action
TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 – I Got Hit in the Head With a Baseball and I Saw it Coming Chapter 2 – What Your Money is Trying to Tell You Chapter 3 – Take a Lap on the Gerbil Wheel of Debt Chapter 4 – Why Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Chapter 5 – [...]
- Chapter 8 – Your Money is Your Friend
TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 – I Got Hit in the Head With a Baseball and I Saw it Coming Chapter 2 – What Your Money is Trying to Tell You Chapter 3 – Take a Lap on the Gerbil Wheel of Debt Chapter 4 – Why Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Chapter 5 – [...]
- Money Can Buy Happiness
For those of you that say money can’t buy happiness. I will tell you today what I’ve said my entire life: I’d like to believe you, but I don’t. The National Academy of Sciences released a research report this past Tuesday that showed people’s happiness and emotional well-being elevated with increasing income levels. The study, [...]
- Study Finds Life Experiences are More Valuable Than Possessions
The satisfaction we get from buying vacations, bikes for exercise and other experiences starts high and keeps growing. The initial high we feel from acquiring a flashy car or megascreen TV, on the other hand, trails off rather quickly, reports a new Cornell study. Why are experiences more satisfying? For one thing, it’s harder to [...]
- We Want to Sell Our House, Pay Off Our Debt and Start Over. – Julie
Julie “Dear Steve, In 2004, we bought our house for $916,000, put about $50,000 of improvements into it (e.g. finished basement, paved driveway, landscaping). In the last five years we have added a new baby to the mix and racked up $40,000 in credit card bills. Our current plan of attack is to sell the [...]
- Does Money And Things Alone Bring You Happiness?
I’m not quite sure what really resonated with me about this video. I guess it is the fact that it is a message that I have heard before from other doctors when I was in the medical community. And it is a realization that I experienced myself in my life. The lessons about material wealth [...]
- There Is No Good Debt and Bad Debt. Debt Is Debt.
Like nails on a blackboard, the mere mention of this notion that there is good debt and bad debt, irritates me. Debt is debt. So I was reading this article on a law enforcement site about debt faced by police officers and it was trying to rationalize the old good debt versus bad debt argument. [...]
- Christy Asks “Why Should I Even Bother With Getting Out of Debt?”
Christy wrote me at GetOutofDebt.org and asked me the following question. “I’ve been in debt so long I don’t even see why I should bother to get out of debt. It’s the American way. You get stuff, make payments and get more stuff. I think I’ll just stop worrying about getting out of debt.” Christy, [...]
- Money Does Not Always Bring Happiness
Over the years I’ve worked with several big lottery winners to help them overcome their subsequent money issues, all you had a similar story, winning millions changed their lives but not always for the better. One client summed it up when she said, “”Steve this money will be gone in twenty years and I’ll just [...]