Tick-Tock! Time Is Money…or is it?
With a second child on the way, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ben Franklin’s saying, “Time is money” as I anticipate having a lot less time on my hands. The idea that time equals money carries a simple message: We should—to the best we can—use money to get us more time. And when you […]
Value Your Time More to Increase Happiness and Wealth
We spend our days making constant trade-offs between time and money. Together, they’re the most important resources we have, and yet throughout our lives they seem to be at constant odds with each other. Cook at home or order takeout? Take on that extra project at work, or spend more time with the family? The […]
The Next Millionaire Next Door: A Book Review
The Next Millionaire Next Door: Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and Sarah Stanley Fallaw, Ph.D. There are countless books available about “how to get rich”: Invest in this fund, buy this piece of real estate, whatever. Don’t you find them all a bit… out of reach? I know I do. […]
Happy Money: A Book Review
Some Thoughts on the Book Happy Money Finally! A book packed with insight on how to make the best use of our money. We’ve all heard plenty of anecdotes here and there, but Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending breaks down the “why?” on many of those intuitions we have about spending money. What […]