You Don't Have to Be Rich: Comfort, Happiness, and Financial Security on Your Own Terms - Hardcover

Chatzky, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591840120 ISBN 13: 9781591840121

Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover, 2003

Synopsis

A columnist for Money magazine and financial editor of NBC's Today show identifies money management techniques that can enable readers at any income level to improve their circumstances, outlining the financial habits of happy people while presenting real-life examples of how to implement healthy financial change. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

Money can't make you happy, but it can make you miserable, explains money maven Jean Chatzky in You Don't Have to Be Rich: Comfort, Happiness, and Financial Security on Your Own Terms. Her premise is provocative: the financial habits of people who believe that money equals happiness will stand in the way of achieving that happiness. Chatzey, a financial editor for the Today show and a columnist for Money magazine, leverages money smart habits of mind from her research with 1,500 Americans and their wallets.

She begins with short and savvy history of how Americans turned from market observers to "in the game all the time participants." Then, she focuses on how to use market down turns as an opportunity "to take back our money by living within our means." Chatzky's down to earth advice is practical and confronts the reader head-on with a non-nonsense approach: "five steps to wanting less," "Feng Shui finance to simplify," "advice for the organizationally dyslexic," "non-gaseous goal setting," or "how to stop digging a financial hole and spotting unconscious spending."

Chatzky illustrates with clear examples and includes survey questions so readers can assess their own money matters. Although some of the advice will sound familiar, (pay your bills when they come in), this is a priceless blueprint for balancing your checkbook along with your outlook. --Barbara Mackoff

About the Author:

Jean Chatzky writes the back-page column in Money magazine, and is a featured columnist for USA Weekend and Time magazine. She is the financial editor of NBC's Today show and her "money minutes" air weekly on CNBC. Chatsky is the author of Talking Money and The Rich and Famous Money Book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1591840120
• ISBN 13: 9781591840121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256