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WORK TITLE: Mindful Money
WORK NOTES: foreword by Alice Walker
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CITY: Berkeley
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AU blog: http://happinessdividend.com/ * http://www.deyoewealthmanagement.com/cms2/view2.htm/2/3064/2978/3100/About-Us/Jonathan-K.-DeYoe * https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathandeyoe/ * https://abnormalreturns.com/2017/04/11/qa-with-jonathan-deyoe-author-of-mindful-money-simple-practices-for-reaching-your-financial-goals-and-increasing-your-happiness-dividend/
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PERSONAL
Married; children: two.
EDUCATION:Attended the Theological Union’s Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1994-95.
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CAREER
Investment advisor. Happiness Dividend, founder; DeYoe Wealth Management, founder and chief executive officer, 2001—. Has also worked for Morgan Stanley, UBS Paine Webber, Salomon Smith Barney, and Prudential.
WRITINGS
Contributor to periodicals and Website, including Business Insider, Huffington Post, Yahoo! Finance, Wall Street Journal, NerdWallet, MarketWatch, Motley Fool, and the Christian Science Monitor.
SIDELIGHTS
For most of his life, investment advisor Jonathan K. DeYoe has combined his Buddhist faith with his financial career. He made his first investment when he was nine and later began practicing Buddhism, attending the Theological Union’s Institute of Buddhist Studies from 1994 to 1995. After working for Morgan Stanley, UBS Paine Webber, Salomon Smith Barney, and Prudential, DeYoe went on to found DeYoe Wealth Management in 2001. DeYoe has served as CEO ever since, and he shares his expertise in his 2017 book Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend. In the book, DeYoe advocates for a mindful approach to wealth, and he explained this perspective in an online Abnormal Returns interview. “Aristotle viewed ‘Happiness’ as the central purpose of human existence and life’s most important goal,” DeYoe noted, “When I talk about earning your Happiness Dividend, I am actually talking about realizing your ultimate purpose as a human being.”
DeYoe went on to comment: “In finance, a ‘dividend’ is a share of profits that are distributed to owners of a company. But ‘dividend’ has a more general meaning as well: a return or reward that results from your efforts. Our relentless obsession with money and investing is ruining our happiness and causing bad financial outcomes. We react impulsively to emotional financial triggers instead of responding mindfully. By DOING less, we can actually get further ahead. For this strategy to work, you must first figure out what you truly want from life and let that be the guiding light of all your financial behavior.” Indeed, Mindful Money stresses the importance of happiness over financial wealth. DeYoe notes that, in order to establish this priority, investors need to examine their relationship with money, and the “illusions” attached to that relationship. Next, DeYoe goes on to explain Buddhist concepts of happiness. The author then offers advice for creating a happiness-focused financial place.
Praising the book in Publishers Weekly, a reviewer announced that DeYoe’s “advice is solid, his delivery is assured, and his claim of discovering the key to happiness is surprisingly plausible.” A critic in the online Spirituality Today was also impressed, and while they wished for more practival advice, they also stated that Mindful Money is “an interesting and thoughtful reflection upon the world of personal wealth creation and accumulation.” The critic went on to conclude that “those who feel they have lost their souls to chasing wealth and who, as a result, have become slaves to money rather than freed by it will appreciate the book’s specific approach to life, happiness and the pursuit of material security.”
BIOCRIT
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Publishers Weekly, December 19, 2016, review of Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend.
ONLINE
Abnormal Returns, https://abnormalreturns.com/ (October 12, 2017), author interview.
DeYoe Wealth Management, Inc. Website, http://www.deyoewealthmanagement.com (October 12, 2017).
Happiness Dividend Website, http://happinessdividend.com (October 12, 2017),
Jonathan K. DeYoe Website, http://jonathandeyoe.com (October 12, 2017).
Spirituality Today, http://spirituality.today/ (February 14, 2017), review of Mindful Money.*
Jonathan DeYoe, AIF & CPWA, is the author of Mindful Money, the founder of Happiness Dividend, and owner of DeYoe Wealth Management.
He bought his first stock in 1980 (he was nine years old) and he started wondering about the "Meaning of Life" in High School. He started studying finance, but quickly shifted his focus to philosophy, comparative religion and Buddhist phenomenology. He spent 7 years on those subjects before embarking on his financial career.
Jonathan DeYoe is a Berkeley, CA based financial adviser and a longtime Buddhist. During his twenty years in the personal finance world, he has managed investments for clients at Morgan Stanley, UBS Paine Webber, Salomon Smith Barney, and Prudential. In 2001 he founded his own wealth management firm, DeYoe Wealth Management. Today Jonathan manages nearly $250 million for over two hundred families and foundations in the United States and overseas.
In his spare time, Jonathan speaks publicly about the intersection of money and happiness and contributes opinion pieces to publications such as Business Insider, Huffington Post, Yahoo! Finance, The Wall Street Journal, NerdWallet, MarketWatch, The Motley Fool, and The Christian Science Monitor. Jonathan lives in Berkeley with his wife and two children.
Jonathan loves reading, skiing, travelling, playing and coaching soccer and he spends as much time with his family as he can.
His blog can be found at happinessdividend.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @HappinessDiv.
Q&A with Jonathan DeYoe author of Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend
April 11, 2017
Q&A with Jonathan DeYoe author of Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend
April 11, 2017
Mindfulness is a topic we have touched on here at Abnormal Returns before. The more time I have spent in and around markets the more I realize that impulsiveness and thoughtlessness can have a huge effect on our financial outcomes and emotional well-being. In a post a couple of years ago I wrote:
The markets are almost by definition, anxiety-inducing. Pursuing a practice that helps put things into some better perspective should be a good thing. However if you approach mindfulness and meditation as just a means for greater business and/or investing success you will likely be disappointed. Mindfulness is about putting your mind in a healthier, more balanced state, and that is a recipe for living a richer, less anxious life.
That is why I was interested when Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend by Jonathan K. DeYoe (and a Foreword by Alice Walker, yes that Alice Walker) came across my desk. I wrote a blurb for the book and am happy to present a Q&A with DeYoe below.*
What is the #1 fear most people have about their finances? What’s the fix?
The #1 financial fear held by most Americans can be summarized as: “Not having enough.”
They worry about not having enough money to cover an emergency, their lifetime healthcare, a job loss or extended unemployment, or the death of the primary breadwinner. But, most importantly, almost everyone worries about not having enough to create an income stream in retirement that they cannot outlive.
The fix requires three simple steps:
You need a written financial plan to follow
You need to earn more than you spend
You need to use your surplus earnings wisely by establishing an emergency fund, avoiding high interest debt, and investing mindfully.
Once you’ve taken these steps, it comes down to adopting a few core beliefs. You need to have Faith in the future, Patience to wait for the future to come to fruition, and the Discipline to work your plan while you wait.
What is a happiness dividend?
Aristotle viewed “Happiness” as the central purpose of human existence and life’s most important goal. When I talk about earning your Happiness Dividend, I am actually talking about realizing your ultimate purpose as a human being.
In finance, a “dividend” is a share of profits that are distributed to owners of a company. But “dividend” has a more general meaning as well: a return or reward that results from your efforts.
Our relentless obsession with money and investing is ruining our happiness and causing bad financial outcomes. We react impulsively to emotional financial triggers instead of responding mindfully. By DOING less, we can actually get further ahead.
For this strategy to work, you must first figure out what you truly want from life and let that be the guiding light of all your financial behavior. Then you need to follow the simple financial steps I outline in the book – such as paying off high-interest credit card debt and investing for retirement. Mindfully follow these steps, and you’ll become more financially secure and happier. That’s what I mean by earning your Happiness Dividend.
How do you define “mindfulness?”
To use a rather broad brush, I define mindfulness as a non-judgmental awareness of what is really going on for us in the present moment, both in terms of our five sensory inputs and our mental and emotional interpretation of those inputs.
Mindfulness doesn’t come naturally to most folks, including me. That’s why I’m a huge advocate of meditation and mindfulness training.
Many people I’ve talked to over the years will say something like, “I can’t possibly meditate, because I can’t sit still for that long.” But that’s the whole point of meditating. If you can’t sit still, I think it’s important to understand why that is the case.
We humans are hard-wired to feel like we constantly need to be doing something. At the same time, our brains don’t ever shut-up. While we’re busy doing whatever that something is, our brains continue secreting thoughts into our consciousness. So, once we’re done with that activity, both we and our brains are off to “doing something” else. The brain keeps bringing stuff into our focus, but much of it isn’t all that helpful or important. Unless we take the time to understand this process, we just blindly follow along.
Mindfulness training helps us navigate through this endless stream of thought secretions, so that we can deliberately choose which ones (if any) deserve our attention.
How can the practice of mindfulness be applied to personal finance or money management?
Mindfulness can play two key roles in personal finance:
It can help you define your personal path
It will help you remain on your path in the face of family, media, and cultural pressures
Personal finance is way more personal than it is financial. When we flip this equation and start following talking heads in the financial media who “know” more than we do, instead of listening carefully to our personal inner voice, we lose our way.
Philosophers throughout the ages have wrestled to explain how we know what we know. The sheer enormity of this question should cause us all to pause before we accept the veracity of anyone claiming to possess knowledge of any kind – especially knowledge of something as big and variable as the global economy. We must also accept the limits of our own knowledge.
Since each of us has a subjective understanding of the world gleaned from our 5 or 6 (in Eastern traditions) senses, what we consider knowledge is actually a social agreement about how we interpret and communicate about the world around us. Unfortunately, accepting this social agreement in our financial lives means trying to spend our way to happiness and participating in the blowing up and popping of every stock market bubble that comes along. This combo creates incredible anxiety and bad financial outcomes.
Mindfulness helps us avoid these pitfalls, stick to our long-term financial plan in the face of short-term temptation, follow our investment discipline no matter what the market is doing, make the tradeoffs necessary to reach our goals, and remain humble about the limits of our own knowledge.
Is it possible to be a conscientious citizen of the world and grow your wealth?
I wholeheartedly believe that being guided by your own unique sense of what is right is the only way you can grow your wealth and safeguard your happiness.
Of course, neither wealth nor happiness is easy or guaranteed. Being a conscientious citizen and growing our wealth requires focus and work, although not the kind of work popular culture would have us believe.
The news media and marketing machines bombard us with messages demanding our urgent attention and action – all the time. If we haven’t considered what we really want in this lifetime, we don’t know what trade-offs are important for us to make, so we follow random marching orders that lead us away from our goals and contradict our values.
By focusing our efforts on planning, saving, and investing to reach our goals, we’re much more likely to achieve them. By working hard to clarify our values, we enable ourselves to make mindful investment decisions, instead of re-acting to all the media noise.
If investing “responsibly” is important to you, then I suggest you consider the broadest possible global diversification. When you focus on diversifying your portfolio, the individual companies you own become less important, so “screening” out the companies, industries, or sectors you want to avoid is easier. The practice of owning a little bit of many good things reduces the impact of not owning bad actors that do well.
What is the most important thing folks can do to achieve financial success?
Own it! Your behavior is the single greatest determining factor of your success, so decide what is important to you and get to work. This is true of losing weight, getting a college degree, starting a business, or retiring a millionaire.
Too many people say they want financial success, but they don’t want to plan and they don’t want to make trade-offs. They want to go out with their friends whenever they feel like it, and they want the instant gratification they are used to. They always want more, but they will never have enough unless they change their financial behavior.
You can read more in Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend by Jonathan K. DeYoe with a Foreword by Alice Walker.
Jonathan K. DeYoe, CPWA, AIF, is a California-based financial adviser with twenty years’ experience and a longtime Buddhist. In 2001 he founded DeYoe Wealth Management, which works with families and institutions. He lives in Berkeley, California. More information at www.happinessdividend.com.
*We did not receive compensation for the blurb or this post (outside of a copy of the e-book).
February 06, 2014 14:27 ET
Jonathan K. DeYoe Announces That DeYoe Wealth Management, Inc. Is Now a Registered Investment Advisor
BERKELEY, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 6, 2014) - Jonathan K. DeYoe of DeYoe Wealth Management, Inc., who provides financial planning and investment advisory services in Berkeley and Oakland, CA, has announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission granted the firm's application for registration as an investment adviser under Section 203(c) of the Investment Adviser Act of 1940 on 12/23/2013.
"DeYoe Wealth Management's objective has always been to provide independent, objective advice," said DeYoe, "and we believe that becoming a Registered Investment Advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission is the logical culmination of this commitment to our clients."
For more information about Jonathan K. DeYoe and DeYoe Wealth Management, Inc. you may visit the firm's website: www.deyoewealthmanagement.com. If you are an advisor and would like to learn about joining our firm, please contact Mr. DeYoe at info@deyoewealthmanagement.com.
DeYoe, a resident of Berkeley, CA is the CEO of DeYoe Wealth Management, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor in Berkeley. DeYoe and his team specialize in empowering people and non-profits towards their financial success. Through comprehensive Financial Planning, clients can see how their choices contribute to their financial successes and failures. Recognizing the choices that lead to success is the first step of the journey.
About DeYoe Wealth Management
The DeYoe Wealth Management mission is to inspire our clients to pursue their passions and make meaningful financial decisions that are rooted in their values. We are trusted for our knowledge, integrity, discipline and commitment to service.
Investment Advice and Financial Planning offered through DeYoe Wealth Management, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor and separate entity from LPL Financial. Mr. DeYoe is an LPL Branch Manager and Securities are offered through LPL Financial member FINRA / SIPC.
Contact Information
Contact:
Nancy Wright Cooper
DeYoe Wealth Management
(510) 848-0012, ext. 103
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Jonathan K. DeYoe
Jonathan K. DeYoe, CPWA®
LPL Registered Principal
In 1994, Jonathan DeYoe moved to Berkeley, CA to attend an M.A. program at the Graduate Theological Union’s Institute of Buddhist Studies (IBS). In 1995, while still attending IBS, Jonathan began his career in financial services and found his true vocation. Although he enjoys the puzzled look on people’s faces when they first hear of this unlikely professional transition, it’s clear to all who work with DeYoe Wealth Management that Jonathan’s unique background correlates perfectly with his unwavering ethics and mission to provide “holistic wealth management.”
Jonathan's professional experience includes investment management responsibilities at Morgan Stanley, UBS PaineWebber and Salomon Smith Barney. After completing Level I of the Chartered Financial Analyst program in 2001, he founded DeYoe Wealth Management, guided by the principle that no amount of money or prestige was ever worth sacrificing one’s integrity. Jonathan's primary aim is to provide independent, unbiased advice that gives his clients the opportunity to be financially successful and pursue their passions — all while remaining firmly rooted in their values.
He believes that committment to family, health, personal achievement, lifelong learning, generosity, and maintaining a positive and supportive attitude are the keys to a successful life. His parents inspired his uncompromising principles and work ethic during Jonathan’s formative years in South Dakota. He is a thoughtful, hard-working professional who believes in treating his clients like family.
Jonathan is active in his community … even by Berkeley standards. He is a Berkeley Rotarian and a member of the Sustainable Business Alliance, the Berkeley Breakfast Club, and the Berkeley Community Fund’s “Berkeley 100.” In addition, Jonathan is a past Chairman of the Board for the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, and he has chaired the Government Affairs Committee and the Chamber’s Strategic Planning Task-Force, as well. He has also served on several boards and committees for organizations ranging from the Berkeley Food and Housing Project and the Berkeley Opera to the East Bay Regional Parks Foundation and the Berkeley Library Fund. Jonathan is particularly proud of the fact that DeYoe Wealth Management is an Alameda County Certified Green Business.
He has many personal interests, all of which revolve around time with family and friends. Jonathan especially enjoys entertaining, travel, food and wine, the great outdoors and great literature. He loves skiing with his family and is passionate about the "beautiful game" of soccer. Jonathan and his wife, Kate, have been married for seven years and make their home in the Berkeley Hills. They have a son named Eli and a daughter Annie, both of whom very much enjoy having the hiking trails and merry-go-round of Tilden Regional Park right at their doorstep.
Email Mr. DeYoe at jonathan@deyoewealthmanagement.com
Jonathan K. DeYoe on Nerwallet Finance, Ask and Advisor Profile
Jonathan K. DeYoe
Founder, DeYoe Wealth Management & Happiness Dividend
Jonathan K. DeYoe has been in the Financial Planning and Investing world for over 2 decades. Mr. DeYoe is a Certified Private Wealth Advisor (CPWA) and an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF). He is the founder of DeYoe Wealth Management, a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) in Berkeley, CA and The Happiness Dividend Blog, a financial mentoring and coaching company for beginning investors. DeYoe Wealth Management has been on San Francisco Business Times' "Fastest Growing Private Companies" list for much of the last decade (based on IRS reporting and PriceWaterhouseCoopers reasearch). The Happiness Dividend is a top 25 Financial Advisor Blog according to Master's In Accounting and Jonathan is among BrightScope’s Top Financial Social Influencers (Based on social media activity and Moz, Alexa, & Google page rankings). He writes regularly about personal finance and issues around human flourishing. Twenty-five years ago, Jonathan was a student of philosophy and comparative religion with an emphasis in Tibetan Buddhism at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He is driven by the disconnect he sees between the important place "money" has in our lives and the misunderstandings we have about the true sources of meaning and happiness discussed by the old philosophers. Jonathan lives and works in Berkeley, CA. He is married to Kate and has 2 amazing kids. He coaches youth soccer, serves on a number of boards and committees and believes you can be/have anything you want in life... as long as you are helping other people get what they want. Visit his blog: www.happinessdividend.com
Jonathan K. DeYoe is the president of DeYoe Wealth Management in Berkeley, CA, the author of Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend, and the founder of Happiness Dividend. Happiness Dividend is a blog offering educational content and tools. The opinions voiced are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual. To determine which financial choices and which investment(s) may be appropriate for you, consult your financial advisor prior to investing. Financial Planning and Investment Advice are offered through DeYoe Wealth Management, Inc., a registered investment advisor doing business as Happiness Dividend. All performance referenced anywhere on this website is historical and is no guarantee of future results. All indices are unmanaged and cannot be invested into directly. Original content written by Jonathan K. DeYoe, PEAK Advisor Alliance, and Broadridge Advisor Solutions (copyright 2017). The Happiness Dividend crew selects and edits all content with permission and care before you see it here. There is no assurance that the techniques and strategies discussed are suitable for all investors or will yield positive outcomes. Investing involves risks including possible loss of principal.
Jonathan DeYoe, AIF & CPWA, is the author of Mindful Money, the Happiness Dividend Blog, and runs DeYoe Wealth Management.
Jonathan K. DeYoe is a California-based financial adviser and a longtime Buddhist. During his twenty years as a financial adviser, he has managed investments at Morgan Stanley, UBS Paine Webber, and Salomon Smith Barney. In 2001 he founded his own wealth management firm, DeYoe Wealth Management. Today Jonathan manages nearly $250 million for over two hundred families and foundations in the United States and overseas. In his spare time, Jonathan speaks publicly about personal finance and contributes opinion pieces to publications such as Business Insider, Huffington Post, Yahoo! Finance, SF Business Times, The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, The Motley Fool, and The Christian Science Monitor. Jonathan lives in Berkeley with his wife and two children. His blog can be found at happinessdividend.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @HappinessDiv.
Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend
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Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend
Jonathan K. DeYoe. NAL, $15.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-60868-436-6
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This mindfulness-themed finance book from DeYoe, a practicing Buddhist, claims to offer the path not only to material wealth, but to something even more elusive: happiness. He says that's the only financial goal that really matters. Part one addresses "illusions" about money; part two, the eight "pillars of happiness"; and part three, concrete steps towards a financial plan. DeYoe's financial advice, absent the Buddhist spin, is quite basic: plan and save. One virtue of DeYoe as an author, however, is that he, unlike some purported financial gurus, actually holds a day job as a financial adviser. Accordingly, his advice is more grounded in reality than most and the book is refreshingly devoid of silly savings schemes wherein one forgoes 20 years of lattes in order to retire at age 55. DeYoe doesn't say anything about financial planning that hasn't been written before, but his advice is solid, his delivery is assured, and his claim of discovering the key to happiness is surprisingly plausible. Alice Walker contributes a foreword, a rapturous ode to penny pinching entitled "Counting My Eggs," that alone is worth the price of the book. (Feb.)
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"Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend." Publishers Weekly, 19 Dec. 2016, p. 116. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA475324335&it=r&asid=17abec34aa0d648a0af4d8f776b7de8d. Accessed 23 Sept. 2017.
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Mindful Money by Jonathan K. DeYoe
February 14, 2017 Spirituality Today
Is it possible to be a conscientious citizen of the world and grow wealth?
Our Rating
3/5
Being wealthy might not make you happy but it is near impossible to make money unless you do so by focusing upon happiness first.
Such is the tenet of Buddhist and financial advisor Jonathan DeYoe who, in his book Mindful Money sets out to guide his readers through the intricacies, obstacles, challenges and pitfalls of wealth creation.
In his book DeYoe poses that fundamental question that everyone working a spiritual path has had to face at one time or another which is “How do we develop a serene relationship with money in such a nonserene world?
Facing Illusions
Mindful Money offers a discourse on money management and a personalised guide within the somewhat confounding world of financial products and fiscal planning strategies.
Divided into three sections DeYoe’s book unravels the intricacies that link money and personal happiness and how you can amass personal wealth in ways that avoid compromising yourself in the process.
In Part One ‘Unmasking the Illusions’ the author fronts the often painful and challenging obstacles that we can face in running our finances successfully in later life. The heart of these difficulties are often borne from the erroneous ideas and concepts regarding our own financial self-worth as children.
In Part Two ‘Finding Your Happiness’ the author explores what he refers to as “happiness pillars”. These range from health and relationships through to generosity and gratitude.
Part Three ‘Making a Plan’ cements the relationship between money and happiness and directs the reader into the process of “launching your dreams into action.”
All of which references the subtle connection between life, oneself and our financial future.
As the author points out in his closing remarks. “When you take the minimal money steps required for financial success, you free up the forces of growth to do their own thing. And they will. “
Our Review of Mindful Money by Jonathan K DeYoe
Money can often blind us from the task of assessing exactly who we are and what it is that we want out of life. Mindful Money is a salutary reminder that we need to understand that as individuals we are the value of the assets that we accumulate.
This is also a book that weaves a somewhat convoluted way through a variety of subjects regarding investment within ourselves as well as financial commitments geared towards ensuring our future.
Its crossover between hardcore consideration of the role of money plays in our lives pitched against our more aesthetic values occasionally work fairly effectively from the perspective of a reader and financial investor but at other times they only seem to confuse and confound. The result is a book that is a little patchy and which covers a lot of ground without actually saying much.
Ultimately it is difficult to be overly critical of a book such as this but I did feel that it failed in providing any real, practical and useful financial guidance but overall how well this book speaks to you is, I guess, is determined by how relevant the approach that the author takes is to your circumstances.
At times it reads more like a commentary on the subject with the result that the author all too often often makes generalised statements that I felt are too weak and which carry little sustenance.
Nevertheless Mindful Money is an interesting and thoughtful reflection upon the world of personal wealth creation and accumulation. It does not draw greatly from Buddhist practice and principles and overall I would have liked the book to have had more of an emphasis on that part of the author’s work.
Those who feel they have lost their souls to chasing wealth and who, as a result, have become slaves to money rather than freed by it will appreciate the book’s specific approach to life, happiness and the pursuit of material security.
Our Rating
3/5