Mindful Money Blog

How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Starting Today) [Video] | When The Music Stops | Expanding Awareness of the Science of Intellectual Humility | Ten Ways to Breathe Meaning into Existence | Half of American Households Have No Retirement Savings

How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön | Twelve New Films That Highlight the Best in Humanity | We All Get “Monkey Mind” — and Neuroscience Supports the Buddhist Solution | Negativity Drives Online News Consumption | 5 Ways Investors Can Succeed by Knowing Their Limits | PHOTOS: See the Wildflower 'Superbloom' Happening Across California

5 Ways to Increase Your Happiness, According to Science | 2,000 Years of Kindness | There’s a Psychological ‘Vaccine’ against Misinformation | Are Joint Bank Accounts Good for Your Marriage? | The A to Z of Economics

What to Read and Watch When You're Sad and Just Want to Wallow a Little Bit | ‘Is This It?’ When Success Isn’t Satisfying | Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It | How To Log Off | Charley Ellis: Six Nuggets of Investment Wisdom

How to Find Joy in Your Sisyphean Existence | Why Do High IQ People Stagnate in Their Careers? Emotional Intelligence | The War on Suffering | Biden (Trump) Grows National Debt by 11% in Two Years | Are Rich People Really Less Ethical?

7 Unexpected Tips We Learned From Relationship Therapists This Year for Boosting Connection and Intimacy | Why Is It So Hard to Change? | Here's Why You Should Make a Habit of Having More Fun | Seeking Wisdom — Lessons on Becoming an Outstanding Thinker | All Markets Are Uncertain

Jason Scott Montoya of the Share Life: Stories & Systems To Live Better & Work Smarter Podcast interviews Jonathan DeYoe of Mindful Money

How to Create Luck | What the Culture Wars Get Wrong | Justifying Optimism | How the Modern World Makes Us Mentally Ill | Snowball’s Indolent Portfolio

Life Is Hard. And That’s Good | Surrendering Isn’t Giving Up: Why We Need to Accept What’s Happened | The Psychology of Prestige: Why We Play the Social Status Game | Overcoming the Myth of Separateness | 6 Conversations About Money to Have With Your Family Over the Holidays

Doc G of the Earn & Invest Podcasts talks with Jonathan DeYoe of Mindful Money about how to be thoughtful about what our financial framework is meant to support. Jonathan takes us through his pillars of happiness and how to use them to create a financial plan that serves our unique goals in life.

“Isn’t Personal Finance Pretty Simple?!” | Men Are Struggling. A New Book Explores Why and What to Do About It | Wealth is Partly Imaginary | The Lonely Hearts Club Man | The Quality of Our Questions

SVP Jonathan DeYoe joined the Smart Money Circle podcast to discuss how wellness and spirituality tie into investing your money and happiness.

How to Get Comfortable With Uncertainty and Change | There is No Timeline to Grief | Why Nancy Pelosi Sabotaged Wildly Popular Bipartisan Legislation | Retirement Can Mean a Loss of Identity — How to Bring Happiness to Your Next Act | Tailoring Your Portfolio When One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Stock selection is hard because leaders change hands. 25 years ago Apple was nearly bankrupt – and if it wasn’t for Microsoft’s last-minute investment, it would have gone under. Now it is the largest company in the world (by market cap). This is one reason that academics (and evidence-focused advisors like me) suggest that owning a broadly-diversified index of stocks in a low-cost vehicle like at ETF makes an enormous amount of sense.

Fast Unicorns Frequently Fade | An Epidemic of Delusions | The Right Way to Be Introspective (Yes, There’s a Wrong Way) | An End to Doomerism | Why Saving Is More Important Than Investing

Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism | Discover the Best Graduation Speeches | A Fitness Guide to Preventing Dangerous Falls in Old Age | What Happened to Giving Money to Charity? | The Tragic Irony of Overconfidence in Investing

Mindful Money - broadly sharing basic financial education and presenting the simple actions that enable and inspire wealth-building - is my "Second Mountain." This is the purpose of this reading list. These are the core books that have helped me establish my own set of financial beliefs and behaviors that can work for anyone who is climbing their own mountains.

Thanks Martine for not just creating a tearful episode. I very much appreciate the opportunity to remember some of the good times with and funny stories about my brother, Dave. It was my pleasure to be your guest.

Historical Roots of Economic Disparities for African-Americans | Your Explanations Are Not True | Validea: Market Valuation | Financial Bloodletting: Don’t Let This Happen to You | Tiresome Debates

The great companies of the US and the World are on sale. That sale may (or may not) get better. If it does get better, it won’t get that much better. There will be some point in the not-too-distant future where we look back at today – the September retest of the June low – and say, “I wish I would have invested then.”