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Hi Do, Here are Todd’s latest fun picks to take your financial skills to the next level... Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
But I despise Black Friday and everything it represents.
Having these two days back-to-back is like yin and yang, night and day, good and evil.
Thanksgiving is about getting the family together, enjoying a feast, and giving thanks for all that is good in my life.
No commercialism. No politics. Nothing messy. Just family, friends, good food, and gratitude.
Black Friday is the worst of crass commercialism. It promotes the deceptive lie that happiness is found in more-better-different thus motivating mass consumption that otherwise wouldn't occur.
I savor each Thanksgiving. I've never once participated in Black Friday.
The issue isn't about shopping, happiness, or materialism. It's about contentment.
The holidays can be stressful. Contentment is your antidote to remain sane when the whole world seems crazy.
If that sounds interesting, I hope these resources help you find peace in this holiday season... and beyond!
Contentment is the ability to enjoy who you are, and live the life you were destined to live. Yet, our consumer culture is built on sewing seeds of discontent to promote material gratification as a source of happiness. GDP growth is how we measure prosperity, but contentment is how we experience it. This makes learning contentment antithetical to modern culture, but essential for anyone pursuing financial security. It's not easy, even though it should be. As the article states, "Your happiness is based solely on your decision to be happy." It doesn't get any simpler than that. This brief, step-by-step guide delivers a practical starting point for your own life practice. A Yale University researcher assembles a team to study 5,000 years of diverse cultural history, and he travels to the deepest jungles to meet with cultures untouched by modern civilization. The discovery? The most advanced form of human awareness is contentment. Contentment comes from our relationship to what is going on around us, rather than our reaction to it. It is the knowledge that things are okay exactly as they are, right now, regardless of what you are experiencing outside. If you read only one article from this list to get started on the path to a more satisfying life, then start here... This beautifully told story from a New York Times financial columnist was never intended as an ode to contentment, but it is. Every sentence explains the transition from the struggle for more to the realization of enough. It's a central topic in my Expectancy Wealth Plannning course because (as the article states) you must define enough so you can plan how to achieve it and know when you get there. (BTW, you can overcome the "subscribers only" block on NYT articles by stopping the page load after the text first appears and before the block renders on the screen.)
Onward and upward!
Todd Tresidder
Finally! A complete and comprehensive solution that takes financial planning to the next level. No more contradictory advice. Nothing more is needed. Confusion is replaced with confident action and tangible results.
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