How to stop worrying about money
Pre-order YNAB's new book: Never Worry About Money Again
Today there’s a new addition to the YNABverse, a small-but-mighty book that’s bringing its message of Never Worry About Money Again ever-closer to our home planet.
And could the timing be better? Or worse, depending on how you look at it?
Worried is what we are about money— even before the recent spike at the gas pump. 81% of Americans are worried about money and of those 221 million people, more than half have been worried for longer than three years.
It’s clear that financial “innovations” like Afterpay are not going to help us. And neither will the timeless fallback of “just trying to spend less.” How much less? And until when?
What begins as a conscious effort to avoid unnecessary spending can become a hardened habit that far outlives its usefulness.
Why do people feel guilty for spending on things that bring them pleasure?
The truth is that there’s only one thing you can do with your money: spend it. But there are a million ways to worry about it.
In fact, worrying about money is a pastime that is often (silently) passed from generation to generation, aided by our cultural discomfort with honest money conversations.
In Never Worry About Money Again, YNAB’s founder Jesse Mecham gets it out in the open: why we worry about money in the first place, and what we can actually do to stop that worry.
“Nobody is born knowing how to spend well. Most of us live with the constant gap between how we think we should be spending our money and how we actually want to be spending it. Close that gap, and the worry goes away.”
This new book closes the worry gap with one question. What is that question, you ask?
Jesse’s book about getting good at money isn’t framed as a hack or one-shot deal (which would be totally unrealistic). Instead, Never Worry About Money Again teaches you to spend as a practice, and to embrace that your money is meant to be spent whether that’s today on plantain chips or by your grandkids long after you’re gone.
The personal finance space puts so much focus on earning, yet this book restores the rightful focus on spending, something that many of us have been stressfully stumbling through for a long time.
The good news is that Never Worry About Money Again is available to pre-order today.
By pre-ordering, you’re opting into an elite club that receives a bonus chapter (immediately available to you, since you’re one of our favorites) and access to ideas and stories from the book before it’s released later this summer.
Never Worry About Money Again is a small, but powerful book that will forever change how you see money.
Here’s to less worry,
Dan