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Make Money, Be Happy by Carmel McConnell
  • 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, ISBN13: 9780273675600, 256 pages, paperback
      Published by FT Prentice Hall on 2004 , 1st
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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.

    Contents of Make Money, Be Happy

    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

    About 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.

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