Happy Money

SPENDING Happy Money My review of Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton. This short book sets out five rules for how to spend money to increase our wellbeing. One exercise I like to do with clients is to have them categorise what they spend money on into...

How much is enough?

SPENDING How much is enough? Many successful professionals have lost touch with how much is enough. As a result they may be putting their lives on hold unnecessarily. Let’s suppose you’re 35 years old and a senior lawyer in a large company earning £350,000. Your...

Don’t waste a crisis

SPENDING Don’t waste a crisis How to use the COVID crisis to better understand your spending. Rahm Emmanuel, former Chief of Staff to Barack Obama, once said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that...