Ken Honda’s Happy Money – a refreshing approach to personal finance.

Did you know your money has an aurora? What if you could feel happy about paying $80 for that ‘necessary’ textbooks? Not convinced?

Neither was I, until I read Ken Honda’s Happy Money. 

Happy Money isn’t your typical personal finance book. It’s a refreshing take on happiness and relationships with money. 

In a conversational tone, author Ken Honda employs antidotes and life lessons to make readers reconsider their relationship with money, work, and life. Is Your Money Smiling? 

To quote Mike Scott, this book is out there. Honda opens with the story of a peculiar woman shuffling through his wallet, assessing whether his money is smiling or not.

This hippy tone sets the stage. Honda writes about money, emotions, and answers hard-hitting questions like why unethical people get rich along the way. 

A spiritual approach to finance may underwhelm readers seeking logic and numbers. But this isn’t a logical personal finance book. It’s a psychological one.

Audiences need to absorb all the emotion in this book to make the logic click. After looking at why and how we spend money, making the most of free time, and why materialistic things can be evil, Honda focuses our attention to the future – where he ties everything together in one epic finale that answers why?

This book could even pass as a self-help book. Like 12 Rules For Life or The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, readers need to sift through chapters of information to reach an Ah-ha! moment at the end.  

The author does what many others fail at – he makes the mundane of personal finance magical. This is a book you want to read. If not for Honda’s wisdom, then for his effortless writing style.

Stories from Honda’s youth, lessons from Japan’s rich culture – a close look at the habits of millionaires and ordinary people alike. These were the fascinating examples I enjoyed most.  

Already enjoyed by millions of readers around the world, this book has shifted my own perspectives. While I certainly don’t go around assessing the emotions of people’s wallets, I have reconsidered my own relationship with spending money and happiness. 

It’s taught me that you can be happy about spending money – that dinners out with family and friends, or life experiences – are invaluable. 

Just as Honda does so well in his novel Happy Money, I ,too, have begun looking at the bigger picture of spending money and happiness.  

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