Mindful Money Blog

What’s the difference between speculating and investing in real estate? In this interview, we hear from Jonathan K. DeYoe, author of the new book Mindful Investing. Jonathan also talks about some of the typical traps that investors can fall into.

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Holly Morphew of The Wealth Trifecta Podcast discusses money, love, and mindfulness with financial coach, author, and trainee meditation teacher Jonathan DeYoe.

The Healthy Advisor: Living With Cancer With Lynn Ballou | Living in Hyperbole | Don’t Let Them Fool You | Every Self-Help Book Ever, Boiled Down to 11 Simple Rules | Fix the National Debt

How to Wander | Stop Being Who You Aren’t | AI Canon | Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence | Don’t Take Financial Advice From Ron DeSantis

‘You Can’t Say That!’: How to Argue, Better | Dear Americans, Define “Worse Off” | Nobody Optimizes Happiness | The Tyranny of ‘the Best’ | Skill or Luck?

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk To Yourself (Video) | Can Movies Help You Become a Better Person? | Why We Forget That Most People Are Good | How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty | The 10 Greatest US Investors and the Virtues That Made Them

American Crisis: How We Lost Our Faith in the Future and How To Get It Back | Tevye On The Other Hand (Video) | How Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study | Influencer Creep | Workaholics: Why Staying Busy Feels Safe and How It Takes a Toll

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

All successful long-term investors are continuously acting on a plan that is founded on their deeply personal values and goals. They are appropriately allocated, they are broadly diversified, and they rebalance regularly. They are patient and remain mindful of their limitations. No one knows what is coming next.

Most investors get this wrong - they mistakenly believe that market risk is the issue they have to overcome. And, in the attempt to manage for market risk, they worry about the wrong things. Recession is one of those things that, while potentially painful in the short run, resolves itself to become a minor issue in the long run.

What Makes Life Meaningful? | Sunday Firesides: Everyone’s Just Trying to Make It in the World | How Emotionally Intelligent People Turn Frustration and Stress Into Fulfillment and Achievement | The Best Way to Deal with Dissatisfaction (It’s Not What You Think) | How To Want Less

Pain is Part of the Process | History Is In the Making | “Reality” Is Constructed by Your Brain. Here’s What That Means, And Why It Matters | Lessons From The Samurai: The Secret To Always Being At Your Best | The Universe in Verse (Video)

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.

To borrow from Churchill, “The balanced (stock/bond) portfolio is the worst form of investing known to man, except for all the other forms.” Those people who are suggesting – based on its immediate past 1-year performance – that the 60/40 portfolio is dead are probably trying to sell something that isn’t a balanced stock/bond portfolio.

For me, worrying isn’t just a sense of anxiety. It is a push to learn more. After I did some research and learned a little bit about how earthquakes work, I wasn’t worried about them anymore (or, at least, I worried less). Earthquakes and the fear of earthquakes are a pretty good stand-in for “market volatility.”

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

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