Jerry Banfield

Hear what I learned listening to Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton on Audible at http://amzn.to/2lfIrfp. The primary purpose of the book is to encourage readers to consider what impact their spending has on their happiness. In summary, investing our cash in others brings us great joy while using credit to buy things we consume for ourselves consistently does not. Buying experiences tends to bring much greater memories whereas wasting on expensive clothing, cars, and housing produces only the briefest short term pleasure followed by an adjustment from our minds to our new position which eliminates any long term benefit. With a life happier than I have ever known today, Happy Money helped me to see some of the reasons I get so much satisfaction out of my business today because of how much I am then spending on contract labor and advertising which gives thousands of people like me the chance to work full time online from home. A few little tricks from the book