How to Increase Your Return on Happiness

What you can do to increase your return on happiness

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How you can assess your return on happiness of expenses

Are you chasing the dopamine rush of buying the next new thing? We’ve been taught that having the latest iPhone or designer shoes will make us happy. But that happiness is fleeting. So, what can we do to ensure our spending is worth it? Is there a way to measure the Return on Happiness of a given item or experience before you buy?

On this episode of Queer Money®, we share an overview of the four freedoms and explain how money, time, relationships, and geography contribute to our happiness. We discuss why you shouldn’t rely solely on a W-2 for your financial success and challenge you to add Return on Happiness to your spending analysis.

Listen in for insight on measuring ROH in terms of the four freedoms and learn how to improve your quality of life by considering the Return on Happiness of the things you consume!

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Topics covered on how to increase your return on happiness

Why we’re cultivating 3 sources of income in our Wealth Builder’s Pyramid
An overview of the 4 freedoms—financial, time, relationships, and geographic
Why time freedom proves to be the best predictor of happiness
Why you shouldn’t rely solely on a W-2 for your financial success
Why big-ticket purchases only bring us short-term happiness
How to assess the Return on Happiness of expenses in a spending analysis
How we measure ROH in terms of the 4 freedoms
How we spend to live up to other’s expectations (and why that’s problematic)
How to improve your quality of life by rating the ROH of what you consume

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We’re David and John Auten-Schneider, the Debt Free Guys (www.debtfreeguys.com), and the Queer Money® podcast hosts. We help queer people (and allies) live fabulously, not fabulously broke, by helping them 1) pay off credit card debt, 2) become part- or full-time entrepreneurs and 3) save and invest for retirement.