Absolutely loved it! Reconfirmed my current mindset about money that can often be misunderstood by friends and family. Ken has an amazing way of explaining money, its hold on us and the ways in which our upbringing can dictate how we view money without ever sounding critical.

Happy Money was a great reminder that money is a lot about attitude and gratitude - I really appreciated the way it reminded me to be thankful for the money I have, and to be careful about how we treat and talk about money to my stepdaughter and other kids in my life. Early ideas about money really impact us down the road.

Happy Money is one of the most thought provoking book that i have read on the topic of Money.
It brings to you a new way to look at money. First by identifying your history with money and introducing you a new way to look at life and money by aligning with your purpose in life and what truly makes you happy or bring contentment to your life..
I underwent a paradigm shift after completing this book.
Highly recommended for people who are blindly chasing after more, you will then have a new outlet towards life and money.

This book is all about how to have a better realationship with money, This was so something I needed at the time and didn't even realize. Kindness matters. What you put out into the world matters. Thank you, NetGalley, for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review!

I received a review copy from Netgalley. Happy Money is, at its heart, a book about gratitude. That if yourself and your loved ones with gratitude, kindness and love, life will treat you in kind.

Spend your time, your money and your energy on the people who matter most to you, the people you love and appreciate and you’ll have happy money.

A great book. One which I’ve benefited from.

Arigato Ken.

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There are two types of book about self finance-
1. Technical
2. Psychological
..This book falls in second category. Only earning money is not enough to be happy, free, secure and powerful.

.It tries to answer questions like,
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a. Why poor people of Bhutan are happier than millionaire of USA,
b. And why unethical people keep earnings lots of money.
c.And why money is not equal to freedom and security.
And many more fundamental questions.
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And it also explores how we may become rich as well as happy.

Author @kenhondaofficial is bestselling author of #japan and shares his wisdom with world in a simplified practical book.

After sluggish initial half book becomes fast in second half where tios to repair your psyche about money are given
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You need to change your thinking and relationship with money so that whatever you earn makes you happy.
Book describes how few people attract more money.

Approch towards money is novel, practical and eye opener. Different sort of book. It is an add on over all the investing books that you have read like rich dad, poor dad, intelligent investor and many others.
It helps to polish what you have learnt from those books.

Afterall who wants to become a pathetic, depressed and sad billionaire.
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Thanks netgalley and publisher for review copy.

This book shows us how to have a better relationship with money. It guides to releasing ideas we may have about it from childhood as well as telling us how to attract it and be grateful for what we do have. This is a good read for anyone who wants to live better and have a better relationship with money.

I would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy free of charge. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.

Initially, I was turned off my the self-aggrandizing in the early part of the book. But, ultimately, I think this volume has some good wisdom about money and presents information that I have read before (in books cited by this author) in a fresh way. The two most impactful ideas, IMHO, were healing your ideas about money from childhood and to have gratitude for your money.

Happy Money is a excellent book with great suggestions for the relationship you have with money. Some of the ideas he has re valuable that I will take to heart.

I've had an interesting relationship with money. Even though I've been lucky enough to have enough of it all my life, I still have a lot of anxiety around it, especially around providing for my family. I think the anxiety is not serving me but I haven't really figured out a way to resolve it. So when I saw this book, I was excited to see what it could teach me.

I've highlighted many, many sections of this book and of course I am not "healed" but it has given me a lot of food for thought. It focuses a lot on what the author calls your money EQ. I will say that if you're looking for how to invest your money or if you have serious money problems, I would not start with this book. It focuses very much on your emotional relationship with money.

There are several sections around how our approach to money and our feelings about it have a lot to do with how we were raised and how our parents approached it which gave me a lot of pause. On the surface, I don't remember any tension around money in my house hold. But as I dig deeper, there's a lot there that I still have to really excavate my way through.

"By checking whatever feeling you project onto money, you can recognize your own emotional baggage. If you can do that, you can see money clearly."

And that's always the crux of everything, isn't it. Food, money, so many of the essentials of life and how we treat them and how we think of them is intertwined with our emotional baggage.

I'm a big saver, so this quote really resonated with me:

"In other words, we want to have something to show for our life's work. We want it to mean something."

certainly true for me.

There is a whole section around gratitude and thanking the money for coming and thanking the money when spending it. I love this idea and have to do it more. The cultivation of gratitude and abundance and the feeling of having enough.

There are also things I've read before: spending money on experiences, doing something i love and am good at to make more money, being willing to receive chances/opportunities given to me, make friends, don't compare with others, make your own rules, etc.

There is the reaffirmation that no matter how much I save, it will not erase the unease I feel. (not what I want to hear, even though i know it to be true, and yet another parallel to body issues.) The fear is not related to money, it's about life in general.

There's a wonderful story about a candy factory where there's a song playing with kids who say thank you so the people who work there remember what they are doing it for. I loved this idea of remembering what it's for. It's something I can do more at my work: remembering the users we make happy each day.

I loved this too:
"What would someone watching you say is important to you based on the way you act in your daily life?"

I try to live by this so often. I spend time with my kids, my husband, etc. But I also fail more than I'd like. Often not on behalf of money but books, art, doing the things I want to do.

There's also a reminder that fear and anxiety is often about fear of the future and what we fear usually doesn't become reality and yet we waste so much energy on worrying. I certainly do.

At the last chapter, he lists all five steps to happy money: shift out of the scarcity mindset, forgive and heal your money wounds, discover your gifts and get into the flow of happy money, trust life, say arigato all the time. My favorite is "trust life."

"We know that everything that happens, positive or negative, will end up working out to support our lives in its own unique way. This is what frees us from the paralyzing anxiety of judging things in ur lives as "good" and "bad." This is why trusting people are more passionate and successful.

When we trust, we are able to become our authentic selves."

I need to remember this again and again. Trust life.

Trust life. And say thank you.

thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review