Here are links to several of my favorite recent articles on personal finance and life. One of my favorite topics is money and happiness and all of these articles touch on that theme in an interesting way. Enjoy: If You Had to Choose by Taylor Milam at The Freedom From Money My 19 year old…
We have been told our whole lives that “money can’t buy happiness” but few of us believe it. Indeed, if you are ever a contestant on Family Feud and the question is “What would make you happier?” you can bet the top response will be “more money.” Richard Wiseman, in his great book 59 Seconds:…
“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” – Annie Dillard “By switching to a new game…time becomes the only possession and everyone is equally rich in it by biological inheritance. Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live.” – Rolf Potts In a recent…
“Money creates needs or encourages their multiplication.” – Edwin Lefevre “Abundance…is the enemy of appreciation.” – Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton The Washing Machine Paradox My paternal grandmother, Ann Amelia Chamberlain Esplin, was born on January 12, 1896 in the small Southern Utah town of Orderville. She would live to be 82 years old,…
“You can only have so much stuff, but you can never have too many stories.” – Paul Sullivan Great stories are one of the keys to happiness. Not great stories that you read in books but great stories that you live. Author Donald Miller writes about how he learned this lesson in his book…
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” – Wilkins Micawber in the book David Copperfield by Charles Dickens I have a confession to make. The Micawber Principle, as stated above and from which this blog gets…
