Smart financial decisions boost more than your bottom line they'll make you healthier and happier too! Are you one of the 90% of people who are stressed about money? If so, you know it can take its toll on every part of your life. Financial health, physical health and happiness are profoundly interconnected. It's almost impossible to enjoy any one of these without the help of the other two. The authors describe this phenomenon as the intersection of money, health, and happiness. Leveraging Your Financial Intelligence will teach you a powerful values-based approach to achieving your most important life goals. As you take steps to improve your financial well-being, you'll discover that leveraging your financial intelligence will also fuel your physical and emotional well-being. Backed by the latest research findings in neuroscience, psychology, health, and cultural anthropology, the authors' invaluable advice focuses on the practical actions you can take to improve not just your finances, but your overall life satisfaction. You'll be inspired by meeting people from all walks of life who have leveraged their financial intelligence to build financial security, promote fitness and health, and increase their daily sense of happiness. Proven recommendations from the authors' work with countless clients, along with worksheets, self-assessments, and other tools will help you apply the book's concepts to enhance your own financial, physical and emotional health. Use the strategies presented in this book to leverage your financial intelligence in a way that's tailored to your individual circumstances and allows you to create your own extraordinary intersection of money, health, and happiness.

Autorentext

DOUG LENNICK is the CEO of think2-perform, a company that provides executive coaching, business advisory services and professional development programs. Doug is legendary for his innovative approaches to cultivating high performance in individuals and organizations. ROY GEER was co-founder of Resource Systems, a management consultancy specializing in corporate strategic planning and employee development. He later focused on coaching individuals and small teams in personal and professional development. RYAN GOULART is a Business Development and Research Associate, at think2perform. He gathers and assesses data from clients in order to assist think2perform in developing tools and programs that effectively engage audiences to meet client needs.

Klappentext
Leveraging Your Financial Intelligence is a research-based guide that offers compelling real-life stories and a proven approach that clearly shows how a change in behavior can enhance financial security while improving physical and emotional wellbeing. Written for anyone who wants to achieve overall satisfaction in life, this vital resource explores a holistic approach that centers on the goals of economic stability, optimum health, and personal happiness. As the authors explain, while overall happiness may be one's ultimate goal, the fastest way to achieve happiness is to begin by reducing financial stress using the strategies outlined in this book. Rather than a feel-good, self-help book based on one individual's personal philosophy, Leveraging Your Financial Intelligence draws on quantitative research by top experts and thought leaders in neuroscience, psychology, health, and cultural anthropology, as well as original case studies. Clear, concise, and practical, Leveraging Your Financial Intelligence explores a number of approaches for expressing and drawing on your financial intelligence. The wealth of illustrative examples can help pinpoint which method will work for you and the strategies presented will allow you to apply your financial intelligence to create your own intersection of money, health, and happiness. With Leveraging Your Financial Intelligence as your guide, you will discover how to achieve true financial, emotional, and physical wellbeing by taking the actions needed to live in alignment with your principles, values, and goals.

Zusammenfassung
Smart financial decisions boost more than your bottom linethey'll make you healthier and happier too! Are you one of the 90% of people who are stressed about money? If so, you know it can take its toll on every part of your life. Financial health, physical health and happiness are profoundly interconnected. It's almost impossible to enjoy any one of these without the help of the other two. The authors describe this phenomenon as the intersection of money, health, and happiness. Leveraging Your Financial Intelligence will teach you a powerful values-based approach to achieving your most important life goals. As you take steps to improve your financial well-being, you'll discover that leveraging your financial intelligence will also fuel your physical and emotional well-being. Backed by the latest research findings in neuroscience, psychology, health, and cultural anthropology, the authors' invaluable advice focuses on the practical actions you can take to improve not just your finances, but your overall life satisfaction. You'll be inspired by meeting people from all walks of life who have leveraged their financial intelligence to build financial security, promote fitness and health, and increase their daily sense of happiness. Proven recommendations from the authors' work with countless clients, along with worksheets, self-assessments, and other tools will help you apply the book's concepts to enhance your own financial, physical and emotional health. Use the strategies presented in this book to leverage your financial intelligence in a way that's tailored to your individual circumstances and allows you to create your own extraordinary intersection of money, health, and happiness.

Inhalt
Preface v

Acknowledgments ix

Chapter 1 Money, Health, and happiness: How they're Connected 1

Chapter 2 Living in alignment 22

Chapter 3 Setting and Achieving goals 36

Chapter 4 Money 54

Chapter 5 Health 77

Chapter 6 Happiness 103

Afterword 130

Appendix A: Exercise: What are your Top values? 132

Appendix B: Exercise: Values and Behavior alignment 133

Appendix C: Exercise: What is your life's purpose? 136