The Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind
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Overview
The Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind delivers easy-to-follow steps for combining sensible saving strategies with mindfulness practices to achieving financial peace of mind. Finally, you can know how to fix your finances without feeling stressed out!
In this book, you’ll find out that sound financial strategy is far more straightforward than the financial industry wants you to think. It reveals the path to mindful money simplicity, showing readers how to adopt behaviors that encourage responsible saving and spending.
You’ll learn about:
- How to journal your spending and saving so you keep track of the money you have coming in and going out
- Easy mindfulness exercises, mantras, and meditations that keep you centered, rational, and calm when it comes to your money
- Simple explanations of the financial industry and how to invest responsibly that anyone can understand
Perfect for anyone who doesn’t usually like books about money (or the complicated jargon they’re often filled with), The Little Book of Zen Money proves that you don’t need to be an expert, professional, or mathematician to get great financial advice.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781119859673 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 04/18/2022 |
| Series: | Little Books. Big Profits |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Sales rank: | 1,065,231 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword John-Paul Flintoff xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
Preface xviii
Money xviii
Zen xix
A Little Light xx
On a Cliff Edge xxii
Seeing Emotions Directly xxvi
Zen Money xxviii
Introduction xxxi
Humans Are Warm xxxi
Money Is Cold xxxiii
Money Only Appears Complicated xxxiv
Money Is Just a Tool xxxv
Zen Only Appears Simple xxxvi
Wanting Nothing xl
Infinite Financial Security xlii
A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind xliv
Here and Now xlv
Chapter 1 Zen and the Art of Money Management 3
No Judgement 3
Money Stress 6
The Playground 6
The Fairytale Trove 8
The Mis-education System 10
You Don't Get What You Pay For 12
Best Times 14
Expensive Times 16
Fear of Missing Out 22
Avoiding Bad Times 23
Money Can Buy Happiness - On Average 24
See Money Directly 25
Money Is a Tool 25
Time and Energy 27
The Jungle Is Neutral 29
Money Is Neutral 31
Money Management 32
The Simple Path 32
Through a Complex World 34
A Burning Forest 36
Education Is a Path 40
Begin with Small Steps 41
The Right Path for You 44
Is It a Path or a Mission? 45
Don't Wobble 47
The Frame 48
The Podium 50
The Floating Buddha 52
Schrodinger's Observation 55
A Better Frame 57
A Clearer Picture 59
How Much Is Too Much? 60
"Maslow's Stair-Master" 61
Torches of Freedom 63
The Thumb Treadmill 66
Be the Experiment 68
Fire Worshippers 71
How Much Is Enough 73
Enough Steps 73
Stepping Off the Chocolate Treadmill 79
Maslow's Enso 83
Zen 85
Scarcity 85
Living 87
The Zen Path 88
Chapter 2 The Path Is a Mission 91
From Money to Now 94
The Money Step 95
Money Pots 97
Life 99
Store 102
What Money Isn't 103
The Income Step 106
Three Sources of Income 107
Working for Someone Else 108
Work for Yourself 111
Work Stress 112
Work Plan 114
The Saving Step 116
Saving Always Comes First 117
The Predictability of Not Saving Second 119
The Sound of One Hand Saving 121
You Only Spend Once 124
The Profit Motive 125
Motivation 126
What Are We Saving For? 128
Two Steps: A Tiny One and Half Again 131
The Spending Step 132
Not All Spending Is Bad 133
But Spending It All Might Be 134
The Save or Spend Trade Off 136
Number Alert! 139
How Much? 141
We Need to Write Things Down 144
Beyond Good And Evil 145
The Investing Step 150
"I Want What She's Having" 151
The Confused Path 153
The Long-Term Power of Compounding 154
The Risk of Not Investing 155
R-RISK 158
Small Regular Investments 163
The Owning Step 165
Freedom from Financial Concerns 166
Debt Is Not the End 168
Financially Free 170
A Fire of Your Own 172
The Now Step 177
The Boring Power of Compounding 178
Live in the Present 181
Now 182
Chapter 3 The Path Is Practice 185
First Steps 185
Step 1 Saving Comes First 186
Step 2 Count to 10 187
Step 3 Write Down Your Spending 189
Step 4 Breathe More 190
Step 5 Collect Receipts 192
Step 6 Build The Faith 193
Step 7 Look Back, Look Ahead 194
Baby Steps 196
Step 8 Make a Zen Tracker 196
Step 9 Important … Notice 198
Step 10 Secret Zen Tracker 200
Step 11 Better Get a Bucket 201
Step 12 Imbue 203
Step 13 Degrees in Needs 205
Step 14 Think About the Week 206
Crawl 207
Step 15 What Is It Like? 207
Step 16 Easy as Pie 209
Step 17 Crawl Before You Walk 211
Step 18 What Else Could I Do? 212
Step 19 Triangular Breathing 214
Step 20 Take A Picture 216
Step 21 How Does This Feel? 217
Walk 219
Step 22 Sit. Walk. Don't Wobble 219
Step 23 Go for A Walk 221
Step 24 Box Breathing 222
Step 25 Because You're Worth It! 223
Step 26 Wobble! 225
Step 27 Give Yourself Permission 226
Step 28 Look Back Down the Path 228
You Might Be Wrong 228
Step 29 Write This Down 229
Step 30 Who Have I Become? 230
Step 31 Zero-Risk Fallacy 232
Step 32 Breathe the Ocean 234
Step 33 Mindful Screen Use 236
Step 34 Mindful Spending 238
Step 35 Where Are You? 239
Challenges 240
Step 36 No Spend Days 240
Step 37 Fast Gains 241
Step 38 Breathe 243
Step 39 Work for Free 244
Step 40 Read Another Little Book 246
Step 41 Push Yourself to Breaking Point 247
Step 42 Analyse Your Finances 248
The Journey 250
Step 43 Money and the Door 251
Step 44 Cut Out the Income Middle Man 252
Step 45 Saving Is an Action 253
Step 46 Mindful Spending 254
Step 47 Investing - Avoiding Scams 255
Step 48 Owning 256
Step 49 Now 257