MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your 'Enough'
by Manisha Thakor with Lisa Sweetingham
Buy on AmazonA veteran of the financial services industry guides you on the path to fiscal enlightenment using "MoneyZen"--her joy-based approach to personal finance that will help you gain peace, confidence, and clarity when it comes to your money. What if everything we've been taught about money and success is wrong? In chasing the American Dream, many of us have lost our way: forgetting to be present with one another, ignoring the richness that can be found in simplicity, spending more time at the office than home, and feeling the compulsion to over-work and out-earn our peers. Veteran financial advisor Manisha Thakor herself fell victim to these habits--at the cost of her mental and physical health.…
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"I feel personally attacked by this book. I picked it up hoping for some helpful perspective on personal finance – and I got that. But what MoneyZen is really about is our deeply harmful obsession with work. In her decades in finance, Manisha Thakor worked herself into the ground – damaging relationships and becoming so physically sick from stress that she had to take months off. And health statistics suggest that she’s not the only one. Even if your work obsession is less severe, it’s nice to be reminded that life has value and meaning outside the workplace."
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