Happy Go Money

by Leong, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9781770414723
• ISBN10: 177041472X
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781773052809
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-01-08
• Publisher: Ecw Pr

Summary

Featured on The Drew Barrymore Show

Can money buy happiness? Maybe, but not like you may think …

The Social’s finance expert gives practical advice on how to spend, budget, invest, and feel good about money

With Happy Go Money, financial expert Melissa Leong cuts through the noise to show you how to get the most delight for your dollar.

Happy Go Money combines happiness psychology and personal finance and distills it into an indispensable starter guide. Each snappy chapter provides practical, easy-to-understand advice on topics such as spending, budgeting, investing, and mindfulness, while weaving in research, interactive exercises, and relatable anecdotes. Frank, funny, and empowering, this primer challenges everyone to revamp their relationship with their money so they can dial down their worries and supersize their joy.

Author Biography

Melissa Leong is a personal finance writer, keynote speaker, on-air personality, and bestselling author. She appears on CTV’s The Social as its resident money expert and was a staff reporter at the Financial Post. She lives in Ajax, Ontario.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• BUYING HAPPINESS
  • 1: Banking on Happiness
  • 2: F*ck the Joneses
  • 3: More Stuff? Stuff It
  • 4: Buying Happiness (For Real)
• CHECK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YOUR WEALTH
  • 5: Watch Your Friggin’ Language
  • 6: Worries B-Gone
  • 7: Your Default Settings
  • 8: Sorry Not Sorry
• FEEL LIKE A MILLION BUCKS (FOR FREE)
  • 9: Train Your Happy Ninja
  • 10: Invoke the Dollar Lama
  • 11: Invest in Bonds
  • 12: Eat Play Snooze
• TAKE STOCK, MAKE GAINS
  • 13: Balance the Bills and the Thrills
  • 14: Check Your Worth
  • 15: Goal Digger
• HAPPINESS FOR LATER
  • 16: Save Right
  • 17: Make That Money Work
  • 18: Make the Silver Fox Happy
  • 19: Hooking Up with a Financial Advisor
• MAKE IT RAIN
  • 20: Show Me the Money
  • 21: Happy Hustling
  • 22: Couch Cushion Cash
• HAPPINESS ASSASSINS
  • 23: Debt: The Big Killjoy
  • 24: Bulletproof Your Happiness
• THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF GIVING A BUCK
  • 25: Give to Get
• Happy Ending