Shira Boss Green With Envy: Why Keeping Up with the Joneses is Keeping Us in Debt
Why Keeping Up with the Joneses Is Keeping Us in Debt shows you how. Fueled by assumptions of how her neighbors were supposedly “making it,” while her and her husband struggled, Boss set out to understand what was really happening in the financial lives of her neighbors, friends, and others. Boss shares stories of couples caught in the trap of “keeping up with the Joneses.” You’ll read stories of couples who, once doing o.k., fell step-by-step into financial ruin. Think those in Congress are financially set? Boss reveals an often different reality. Think money can solve your problems? You’ll learn that even billionaires have money-related problems. Exploring the social side of money, Boss exposes envy’s ugly head and the games we play in our efforts to keep up. Boss offers techniques to help you “tame money” and your “preoccupation with what others seem to have,” including a including a fresh strategy, which when employed can help you develop an empowering mindset for taking control of your life and, in turn, your finances. Through Green With Envy, you’ll learn:
- That what you see isn’t always the reality.
- How the power of sports psychology and marathon training can help you gain control of your life and finances.
- The importance of an “internal locus of control.”
- About mindfulness meditation and ways to develop your brain’s control of your body, and to stay in touch with reality.
- How to concentrating “action” and acting “as if” can help.
- How changing your perspective and response can give you a greater sense of control.
- The importance of occasionally indulging yourself, and the power of thankfulness, gratitude, and abundant thinking.
