The ObservatoryWhat is my wealth?
Shift your gaze from what you own to what gives you energy, and invest in that.
How it works
- From the bookWrite
- Inventory your wealthListWrite
- The empty caloriesWriteChoose
- ReinvestChooseWrite
- Three good thingsList
A story that gets passed around: a wealthy father took his daughter to the countryside to show her how poor people live. Back home he asked, "Did you see how poor they were?" The daughter answered: "We have a dog, they h …
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Why does it work?
Good relationships are what most often correlate with health and wellbeing in the Harvard study of adult life (Waldinger & Schulz, 2023). Money raises wellbeing for most people, but with diminishing effect (Killingsworth, Kahneman & Mellers, 2023), and gratitude exercises have modest but recurring effects (Davis et al., 2016).
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