Happy Money

May 15, 2019
Honda is a best-selling author in Japan, known for encouraging readers to contemplate their relationship with money. In Happy Money, Honda proposes that getting to the root of one's emotional attachment to (or lack of interest in) money can unlock the power to attract beneficial financial relationships. Happy money is money circulated (earned, spent, given, or donated) with kindness and compassion; unhappy money is that circulated with resentment and rage. In the chapter Money IQ and Money EQ, Honda asks readers to consider their own, their parents', and their grandparents' relationship with money; with insight into the two generations preceding them, readers can identify their own money personality. Later, in Money and Your Life, Honda lists the emotions money can bring out in a person, and asks readers to recognize past negative experiences in order to move forward with only positive associations. Honda coaxes readers to examine the emotions he associates with money, and in doing so, forge a new positive (and potentially lucrative) path forward.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)