How to Maximize Your Satisfaction

March 19, 2015

How do you make decisions? According to this article, there are two basic approaches. Some people are “satisfiers,” which means that when they see a choice that satisfies them, they take it. Other people are “maximizers,” meaning they want to see and study all the choices to pick the best possible option. Maximizers do tend to make “better” choices (for example, they make more money on average) but they also aren’t as happy with those choices (including with those higher-paying jobs). That’s because maximizers are always wondering if there’s a better choice they could have made. Continue reading

What Eating the World’s Largest Lollipop Can Teach Us About Spending Money

August 02, 2012

Last week, my fellow Financial Finesse planner Michael Smith wrote a blog post titled “What the World’s Largest Lollipop Has to Do With Our Financial Problems” about how the “bigger is better” mindset can lead us down the path of debt. The problem is that a desire for growth and improvement in all areas of our life, including materially, is arguably ingrained in our culture, if not our very DNA. Don’t we always want to become more fit and healthy, more educated and knowledgeable, more liked and respected, more financially secure and yes, more materially comfortable? Continue reading “What Eating the World’s Largest Lollipop Can Teach Us About Spending Money”