The Little Book of Zen Money

"Preface 9 Money 9 Zen 10 A Little Light 11 Seeing Emotions Directly 15 Zen Money 17 Introduction 19 Humans are warm 19 Money Is Cold 20 Money only appears complicated 21 Money Is Just A Tool 22 Zen Only Appears Simple 23 Wanting Nothing 26 Infinite Financial Security 28 A Simple Path To Financial Peace Of Mind 30 Here and Now 31 Chapter 1: Zen and the Art of Money Management 32 No Judgement 32 Money Stress 35 The Playground 35 The Fairytale Trove 37 The Mis-Education System 38 Best Times 42 Expensive Times 44 Fear Of Missing Out 49 Avoiding Bad Times 50 Money Can Buy Happiness - On Average 51 See Money Directly 52 Money Is A Tool 52 Time And Energy 54 The Jungle Is Neutral 55 Money Is Neutral 57 Money Management 58 The Simple Path 58 Through A Complex World 59 A Burning Forest 61 Education Is A Path 64 Begin With Small Steps 66 The Right Path For You 68 Is It A Path Or A MISSION? 70 Don’t Wobble 72 The Frame 73 The Podium 74 The Floating Buddha 76 Schrodinger’s Observation 79 A Better Frame 80 A Clearer Picture 82 How Much Is Too Much? 84 ""Maslow's StairMaster"" 84 Torches Of Freedom 87 The Thumb Treadmill 89 Be The Experiment 91 FIRE Worshippers 93 How Much Is Enough 96 Enough Steps 96 Stepping Off The Chocolate Treadmill 101 Maslow's Ensō 104 Zen 107 Scarcity 107 Living 108 The Zen Path 109 Chapter 2: The Path Is A MISSION 111 From Money To Now 113 The Money Step 115 Money Pots 116 Life 118 Store 120 What Money Isn’t 122 The Income Step 125 Three Sources Of Income 125 Working for someone else 126 Work for yourself 128 Work Stress 130 Work Plan 131 The Saving Step 134 Saving Always Comes First 134 The Predictability Of Not Saving Second 136 The Sound Of One Hand Saving 137 You Only Spend Once 140 The Profit Motive 142 Motivation 143 What Are We Saving For? 144 Two Steps: A Tiny One, and Half Again 146 The Spending Step 149 Not All Spending Is Bad 149 But Spending It All Might Be 150 The Save Or Spend Trade Off 151 How much? 155 We Need To Write Things Down 156 Beyond Good And Evil 158 The Investing Step 163 ""I Want What She's Having"" 164 The Confused Path 165 The Long-Term Power of Compounding 167 The Risk Of Not Investing 167 R-RISK 170 Small Regular Investments 174 The Owning Step 177 Freedom From Financial Concerns 177 Debt Is Not The End 179 Financially Free 181 A FIRE Of Your Own 182 The Now Step 188 The Boring Power Of Compounding 188 Live In The Present 191 Now 191 Chapter 3: The Path Is Practice 193 First Steps 193 Step 1: Saving Comes First 194 Step 2: Count to 10 194 Step 3: Write Down Your Spending 196 Step 4: Breathe more 198 Step 5: Collect Receipts 199 Step 6: Build The Faith 199 Step 7: Look Back, Look Ahead 201 Baby Steps 203 Step 8: Make a Zen Tracker 204 Step 9: Important… Notice 205 Step 10: Secret Zen Tracker 206 Step 11: Better Get A Bucket 207 Step 12: Imbue 209 Step 13: Degrees In Needs 211 Step 14: Think About The Week 212 Crawl 213 Step 15: What Is It Like? 214 Step 16: Easy As Pie 215 Step 17: Crawl Before You Walk 216 Step 18: What Else Could I Do? 218 Step 19: Triangular Breathing 219 Step 20: Take A Picture 220 Step 21: How Does This Feel? 221 Walk  or it’s not about the money 224 Step 22 Sit. Walk. Don't wobble. 225 Step 23 Go for a walk 226 Step 24: Box Breathing 227 Step 25: Because you're worth it! 228 Step 26 Wobble! 229 Step 27 Give Yourself Permission 230 Step 28: Look Back Down The Path 232 You might be wrong 233 Step 29: Write This Down 234 Step 30: Who Have I Become? 235 Step 31: Zero Risk Fallacy 236 Step 32: Breath The Ocean 238 Step 33: Mindful Screen Use 239 Step 34: Mindful Spending 241 Step 35: Where Are You? 242 Challenges 243 Step 36: No Spend Days 244 Step 37: Fast Gains 244 Step 38: Breathe 246 Step 39: Work For Free 247 Step 40: Read Another Little Book 249 Step 41 Push Yourself To Breaking Point 250 Step 42: Analyse Your Finances 251 The Journey 254 43: Money And The Door 255 44: Cut Out The Income Middle Man 256 45: Saving Is An Action 257 46: Mindful Spending 257 47: Investing - Avoiding Scams 258 48: Owning 259 49: Now 260"