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The dollar you save is the dollar you make
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The dollar you save is the dollar you make

New insights about spending and saving
Last updated 11/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Money saving skills
  • Financial awareness
  • Financial goals prioritizing
  • Financial discpline
  • Better money handling habits

Course content

1 section16 lectures1h 32m total length
  • Introduction2:20

    Analyze how we earn and spend money and uncover deeper needs behind purchases. Build a transparent system to save time, energy, and money, and gain control of your wallet.

  • The culture of consumption. How society involves us in buying?6:45

    Explore how the culture of consumption shapes our money habits, social life, and identity, from advertising and price perception to the rising role of money in daily interactions.

  • Renewal. How we seek and buy changes in life4:18

    Explore how renewal mirrors nature's cycles as modern life shifts from nature to city living, reshaping rituals, traditions, and meaning in a capitalistic world.

  • Buying habits8:28
  • Buying and happiness8:46

    Discover how money and stuff shape happiness by showing that value and joy arise in the mind, not from objects themselves. Learn how buying mediates emotions and social signals.

  • Buying as a challenge5:46

    Explore how buying becomes a personal challenge driven by emotion, not money, as we move through a five-stage journey from idea to purchase, use, and discard.

  • Linear lifestyle4:26

    Question the linear life mindset and shift from autopilot spending to spending on travel, self-development, and realizing your dreams, using money to improve quality of life rather than accumulating possessions.

  • Why we buy expensive things3:59
  • Car expenses6:39
  • Emotional buying desicions3:29

    Explore how emotions eclipse intellect in buying decisions, driven by insecurity and safety needs, and how emotional overload causes irrational purchases and regret.

  • Psychology of spending money4:30

    Explore how psychology and capitalism drive overconsumption, reveal that owning more stuff rarely boosts happiness, and examine the social costs of a material focus over meaningful life goals.

  • What do we really want8:53

    We buy to satisfy emotional needs, not just functions; understanding our desires clarifies decisions and turns money into a tool for reaching goals.

  • Being an owner7:04
  • New possibilities stimulates consumption7:11

    Explore how expanding possibilities stimulate consumption, shaping desires and inner friction between needs and wants, while highlighting creativity and decisive choices in a consumer world.

  • We make money with intelect and spend with emotions5:15

    Explore how to make money with intellect and spend money with emotions, reduce waste, and manage insecurity and anxiety shaping everyday purchases and financial safety.

  • Freedom to buy dreams5:05

    Explore how saving and spending priorities shape inner freedom and dream attainment, distinguishing outer freedom from money, and outlining discipline and mindset shifts to align spending with your true goals.

Requirements

  • No

Description

Have you ever ended a month having failed to keep to your financial plans?

Have you ever thrown away things that have been collecting dust for years, and you ask yourself “What I was thinking when I was buying these?“

Have you ever felt uncomfortable just because you refused to buy an overpriced item?

Have you ever felt that you don't control your money as well as you would like?

Do you often experience inner conflicts and doubts related to buying?


We live in a society of consumption, in which we are trained to copy our spending habits from media and those around us. Most people would love to save for bigger goals and dreams, but that requires proper saving habits, which in turn demand discipline.

In this course, I will share numerous fresh and valuable insights on how to save money while still maintaining a healthy balance on spending for pleasure. It will detail how status and reputation are involved in both selling and buying, and also discusses the happiness that never comes despite how much money you may spend chasing it.

Prioritizing skills instead of self-limiting

While many believe that saving money is about limiting lifestyle and self-repression, I would say that saving is about attaining the necessary skills to sort and prioritize goals, and utilizing the knowledge of how to fulfill your deeper needs. I teach money spending that brings more value, fulfillment, and joy to your life. This course is your path to new shopping behavior, more peace of mind, and stronger skills to prioritize money for activities and things that you genuinely enjoy, as opposed to allowing external forces to guide your spending on autopilot.

More freedom not to buy

You will have more inner freedom to make different financial decisions than our consumerist society expects of you. You‘ve probably already noticed that a lack of self-control turns into unplanned shopping. I will explain how to gain more self-control, and how to create stronger boundaries that can resist the never-ending stream of advertisements that wash over us daily.

Stop buying just because other people buy

We invest a lot of intellectual effort into making our money, but at the end of the day, emotions take over and cause us to lose awareness, seek to please ourselves above all else, and regret our decisions later when it turns out that we‘re still emotionally unsatisfied. I`ll give a detailed explanation of the buying motives and emotions that overtake us when we make our purchase decisions, and explain what fears and insecurities we must overcome when we start changing our money habits.

What money brings to your life

You‘ve probably realized that buying more things, and more expensive things, does not necessarily bring you more happiness. Why do our expectations misalign with what we get? We still try to pretend that we are happy just like everybody else, and focus on the false hope that getting more money will bring more happiness to our lives.

No shame or guilt feeling because of saving

Don’t feel stressed anymore because of what others will think or say about your lifestyle. You won’t waste your time in shopping malls looking for entertainment and other voids to pour your hard-earned money into, because you‘ll be occupied with activities bearing actual meaning. This course will help you to set stronger boundaries and cure your sensitivity for the opinions of others.

It’s also about our common insecurities — which we try to hide under known brands — and about your car that‘s depreciating with each passing day. It’s about designer jeans that cost five times more than regular jeans, and also about psychologists who never advise impulse spending to relieve tension, and the fact that we somehow consistently do the opposite.

Let’s break down the main benefits:

1. You will improve your money spending habits.

2. You will get better control of yourself and your money.

3. You will feel more comfortable about making financial decisions.

4. Finally, you will have more money in your pocket.


Who this course is for:

  • People who wants to handle money better
  • People who wants to save more money
  • People who have shopping addiction
  • People who wants to stop emotional spending
  • People who want to change spending habits