Make Money, Be Happy: How to Make the Money You Want And Do The Things You Want to Do - Softcover

McConnell, Carmel

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9780273675600: Make Money, Be Happy: How to Make the Money You Want And Do The Things You Want to Do

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273675605 ISBN 13: 9780273675600

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2004

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Do you think you have enough money? Do you feel really fulfilled by your career? Very few people can answer yes to both questions. Some of us can say yes to one or the other. But the majority of people would actually say no to both.

So what is it that is stopping you achieving your full financial & career potential?

Is it possible that taking steps to be fulfilled can actually be the same steps you need to take to get control of your financial situation (and vice versa). It runs completely contrary to what we've been led to believe - you can have lots of cash or a fulfilling job, but you can't have both. Unless you are one of those annoyingly rare people who turn their hobby into their job (and we've all read enough about those).

Make Money, Be Happy shows that a career is just one income stream, and that many others exist. It offers the reader a different life perspective, one that integrates career ambition with greater personal financial control. It blasts financial fear and stupidity and attempts to replace it with knowledge and the desire for personal financial action (in order to do the things you love).

The book provides lots of examples and basic finance tools and techniques to help you, the reader figure out

Why you earn what you earn
What you might really want to do with your life
What your career choices will mean, financially
What is the business case for you, right now, where you are
The concept of day rate versus salary
What is good to understand about investments
Self destructive spending habits
Ways to make a low income work harder
Ways to make a high income feel like one

This book explains simple concepts buried underneath the jargon of financial management. The author digs so the reader doesn’t have to.

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Review:

Carmel McConnell was featured as insiprational woman of the month in She Magazine, October 2006

From the Back Cover:

Make Money, Be Happy

How to make the money you want and do the things you want to do

Do you earn the right amount of money?

Could there be more happiness in your life?

Forget either/or – how about both...

Make Money, Be Happy shatters the myth that you have to choose between healthy finances or happiness. It shows that, whatever your starting point, it is possible to have both. Step by step, it will help you assess what your financial and fulfilment needs really are, and then take you through a process of creating a life which really works for you.

It’s a personal approach, designed to be gentle on those of us who shiver at the thought of financial planning. And it will softly steer anybody who doesn’t really know what it is they want to do.

Creating your own Make Money, Be Happy will help you improve

Your ability to create and keep money
Your ability to create and keep happiness

Sounds good? It is. Creating your own Make Money, Be Happy strategy gives you back control that you may have let slip away. And you'll feel so much better for it.

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