Make Money, Be Happy

How to Make All the Money You Want, Doing What You Want to Do

By: Carmel McConnell

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Product code: 20480
ISBN: 0273675605
256 pages
Format: Pb
Published by: FT Prentice Hall, 2004, 1st edition

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Description of Make Money, Be Happy

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.

Make Money, Be Happy - Chapter headings

1. Introduction
How are you?
Your big purpose
What this book will give you
Work that asset
Are you niche, or commodity?
The danger of leaving your success to others (and a quick quiz to find out if you are..)
Leisure
What makes you happy?
Ten big ideas
Twelve ways to spot a coping strategy
The Chicken Option

2. Great expectations
Purposeful Profit: One way to make money be happy
Does my career make a profit?
Money basics (a guide for those who've been doing more interesting things)
My business cycle - an exercise
Fund Your Fulfilment - second way to Make Money Be Happy
The oxygen mask rule
Time for a change?

3 Where are you now?
Budgets seem to be the hardest work (sorry Sir Elton)
How to calculate the Magic Number (how much you really have to spend each month)
Top ten things to learn about your own money
The asset ladder
Smile - your financial snapshot
Where are you now - happiness-wise?
Ten ways to happiness

4. How to make money, be happy? The three-step approach
Beliefs
What's going on in your head - what are your beliefs?
What are your beliefs about money?
Common beliefs amoung the seven richest people I know
Imagine multiple streams of income
Ten suggestions to earn more - freelance or contractor view
Better thoughts
Ten little known things about money
Beliefs about happiness - do you have happiness in mind?
Behaviours
How Andy made money be happy
Depreciation
What are your money behaviours?
The link between thought, behaviour and money
Happiness is a normal behaviour
Action
The Make Money, Be Happy Strategy - in practice
Six steps anyone can take to make money, be happy
Action - the facts about my value add
Purposeful profit plus - a formula to make money be happy
Step-by-step formula

Finally, an introduction

Authobiography of Carmel McConnell

Carmel McConnell is an ex-Greenham Common activist turned global corporate business consultant. She advises on how to build sustainable profit and have positive social impact. She has worked with a huge range of big name clients from large financial services institutions to IT specialists, and is now beginning to run courses for very large corporates training people in change activism and ethical behaviour.

Carmel has written two books, and co-authored two more. Change Activist was first published in 2000 and Soultrader followed in 2002. With Mick Cope she wrote Float You, and with Jonathan Robinson authored the ground-breaking career guide Careers Un-ltd.