Money
Life’s vital lessons in the dangers of self-indulgence
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Learning the dangers of indulging in instant gratification cannot begin too early in life . . . or continue too long.
In part of a slightly flippant quote taken from the Feedback page of BusinessWeek (Apr. 21), a father from [...]
Is spending the key to a Happy Christmas?
Before you empty your bank account or further increase your indebtedness, consider whether you could be just as happy without spending quite so much
This is the time of year when people spend money—lots of it. The retailers and manufacturers are desperate that you do so, since the bulk of their annual profits come from [...]
What do you believe about money?
Are your assumptions making you poorer and more stressed out?
Money may or may not be the root of all evil (I think that’s more likely to people’s constant desire to have everything their own way), but it’s definitely the basis for a great deal of stress. One idea is that how you think about it—especially [...]
The unending pain of circular reasoning
Why trying to make yourself feel contented by acquiring more is doomed from the start
All too many of us succumb to the kind of thinking that goes like this: “If I get a [new job, new house, new car, new partner—fill in the blank], I’ll be happy.” Of course a whole industry, called advertising, exists [...]
