Getting rich may get you a higher standard of living, but it may not necessarily reduce your stress. If you have bad habits, it frequently doesn’t.
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In a nutshell
The focus of No Worries is how to minimize your financial stress.
Financial stress compounds other kinds of stress: marriages, jobs, kids. It makes your life difficult.
Book Club Notes
I must admit that I found Jared Dillian’s voice grating, however I really enjoyed the book – this is a first for me. Putting my personal personality preferences aside, this is a great book that has a unique financial point of view. His writing is clear and easy to grasp, the book is incredibly easy to read and it’s filled with great tips that will be relatable to many.
Most finance books give you standard rules to follow. They’ll tell how to or not to spend, save and invest to achieve financial freedom. They won’t tell you how you might feel getting there. Jared Dillian gives a whole other perspective. He’s not teaching you how to get rich or how to be financially free but rather how to have a stress-free financial life – this is different. He believes that money stress is unnecessary and in No Worries he shows you how.
My favorite piece of advice from No worries
Drink the coffee if you want to.
The greatest lie ever told: You can get rich by cutting expenses to the bone. Austerity is tough. It’s tough to maintain day after day, week after week, month after month. When you live this way, money is not your friend, it is your master. And every decision, no matter how small – such as whether to get a soda out of a vending machine – must be examined within the following framework: Do I need it?
We are constantly told that we buy stuff we don’t need. So? Sometimes we buy things because it is fun. And sometimes we buy a drink because we are thirsty, because waiting two hours to get a drink at home will result in unnecessary discomfort. Money may not make us happy, but it does make things easier.
Any program that asks you to deny yourself small, affordable luxuries for a period of months, years or decades is doomed to fail. Because there are two possible outcomes; either you won’t be able to do it, and you will give up on your financial future; or you will be able to do it, and you will be miserable and make everyone else around you miserable, too.
Read If
Your finances stress you out and you’re looking for a new perspective on how to manage your money.
Rating
Writing – 8/10
Applicability – 9/10
Timelessness – 10/10
Shareability – 9/10
The Nitty Gritty
Published by: Harriman House, Distributed by Jonathon Ball
Genre: Non-Fiction, Self Help, Finance
ISBN: 978-1-80409-055-8
Pages: 231
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