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Money psychology, habits, anxiety, comparison, happiness, and attitudes toward wealth. Change how you think about money and good decisions get easier.
Author and speaker John C. Maxwell put it rather succinctly: “If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.” Not everyone dreams of building wealth. But if you do,…
We all like to think of ourselves as rational consumers. When we buy Product A instead of Product B, we think we’re doing it because we’ve carefully weighed the pros and cons – price, quality, and so on – and decided Product…
We’ve all been there before: You wake up in the middle of the night, and while you try to get back to sleep, your mind veers to the topic of money. Before you know it, you’re in a full-blown 2am…
Does your self-worth fluctuate based on the balance of your bank account? Do you feel more worthy when you’re dressed head to toe in name brand clothes? Do you feel uncomfortable or “less-than” when you’re around people who have more…
Individual investors usually underperform the market for a single reason: They let emotion influence their investing. In bull markets, emotion takes the form of greed, of trying to get clever and outsmart other investors. In bear markets, emotional investing takes…
Could you live on half your current budget? Your knee-jerk reaction was probably no. But you likely did live on a fraction of your current budget in your early 20s. In the years since then, you’ve let your spending become…
Money is a tool. Like any tool, you can wield it with great skill, or you can use it crudely. The self-made wealthy know not only how to wield it, but also how to use it in ways that don’t occur…
In 2016, one of the candidates for Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year was “hygge.” Pronounced “HUE-guh,” this Danish word has no exact equivalent in English. Its closest translation is “coziness,” but it means a lot more than that. It…
Suppose you’re looking for a job, and you have two job offers on the table. Company A offers you a salary of $100,000, but you know the average salary there is $200,000. Company B is willing to pay only $50,000,…
Expert investors dive deep into technical analysis, looking for that perfect predictor of market turns. But most of us don’t have a Ph.D. in economics and simply look for maximum returns with minimum time spent. The good news: You can…
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