Buying Happiness
A new series from Making of a Millionaire exploring the keys to a happy, wealthy life
“Money can’t buy happiness.”
A quote you have heard a thousand times before, uttered almost exclusively by people who have never had to experience what life is like without an abundance of money and security.
The truth is that money can buy happiness if you use it correctly.
Obtaining money (working) dictates how we spend the majority of our waking lives. Money determines where we live, how we move around, what we eat, if and when we can travel and how often we see friends and family.
Of course money can buy happiness.
That is why I am launching a third series under the Making of a Millionaire banner called “Buying Happiness.”
In this series, we will explore the growing research on the connection between money and happiness to explore actionable ways you can use money to live your happiest, best life.
When I started Making of a Millionaire, I wanted it to be more than just a run-of-the-mill personal finance blog. Yes, budgeting, expense tracking, and all the traditional “personal finance” 101 stuff are important. But you can find 10,000 blogs that cover that.
Making of a Millionaire has evolved from “personal finance” to a publication where you can master money. Think of this as grad school for money.
The Rational Investor series started as a chapter-by-chapter release of my book of the same name but has turned into a collection of articles that summarize complex economic papers into easy to understand tips for long-term investors.
Money on My Mind is an ongoing series to help you identify the cognitive biases, strategies to overcome them, and simple tricks and exercises that can be done in a few minutes per day to develop a more healthy money mindset.
Now, with Buying happiness, we explore how you can use money to live a happy life.
With these three series, Making of Millionaire covers:
Simple ways to grow your wealth
How to unpack the psychological aspects of money
Finding peace with money and happiness in your life
Neither the topics or the order in which I have chosen to write about them were chosen at random. There is an order of operation and connection between these three topics.
As always, I will try my best to keep as much of this material as possible free. But, the only way to access 100% of this series on money and happiness is to become a paid subscriber.
Becoming a paid subscriber supports this publication, gets you access to exclusive subscriber-only articles, and gets you free copies of my books “The Financial Freedom Equation” and “The Rational Investor.”
I’ve done my best to keep the cost of a subscription as low as possible (the annual plan is about $4/month), but if you are going through a rough patch right now and can’t swing a membership, send me an email, and I’ll comp your first year.
Stay tuned for the first edition of “Buying Happiness” in your inbox soon. In the meantime, I’d love to hear from you.
Leave a comment and let me know what you are most excited to learn in this series and what parts of managing money you are struggling with the most right now.
Cheers,
Ben