Coaching practices for Time vs Money Happiness
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- There’s a job that pays more but eats my evenings, and a longer commute that saves a little cash, and I keep instinctively grabbing the money option
- Someone offers me extra paid work and I say yes almost on reflex because the money is right there in front of me
- I just spent another hundred dollars on stuff I’ll stop noticing in a week, and meanwhile there’s a dreaded chore I could pay to get off my plate but won’t
- I keep buying myself things expecting a lift and the thrill is gone within a week
- When I do have money to spend beyond the basics I keep funneling it into more stuff that I’m bored of within a month, and some part of me senses I’d get far more lasting joy out of a trip or buying back my own time
Practices that may help
- Choose time over money on purpose
When trade-offs arise, weight time more heavily than the extra dollars.
Time Affluence, Made Practical - Actively choose time over money at decision points
People who habitually trade money for time report higher life satisfaction than those who do the reverse.
Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence - Outsource tasks you dislike to buy time affluence
Paying to offload dreaded tasks raises happiness more than spending the same money on material goods.
Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence - Invest in experiences rather than possessions
Experiential spending produces more lasting happiness than material spending of equivalent cost.
Time Affluence Practices (Cassie Holmes) - Spend the enough on time and experiences, not the treadmill
When you do spend above enough, direct it where adaptation is slowest.
The Enough Mindset, Made Practical - Investing in people over status
Direct discretionary time and energy toward relationships, not just career and acquisition.
The Good Life: Lessons from the Harvard Study - Spend on experiences rather than possessions
Experiences resist adaptation better than objects because they exist as memories that improve over time.
The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical - Time Affluence, Made Practical
Time affluence is the felt sense of having enough time, the opposite of "time famine" — the chronic feeling of being rushed. Research suggests that valuing time over money, and spending money to buy back time, predict greater happiness, though much of the evidence is correlational and the effects, while real, are modest. - Invest freed time in activities with documented well-being returns
Buying back time only raises happiness if the freed time goes to high-return activities.
Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence - Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence
Ashley Whillans’s research shows that "time affluence" — the subjective sense of having enough time — predicts well-being better than income beyond a moderate level, and that concrete practices like outsourcing disliked tasks and protecting time for meaningful activities measurably raise it. The core studies are correlational with some experimental support for specific interventions.
Related concerns
- Time Smart Buying Back Your Time Affluence During A Big Change
Ashley Whillans’s research shows that "time affluence" — the subjective sense of having enough time — predicts well-being better than income beyond a moderate level, and that concrete practices like outsourcing disliked tasks and protecting time for meaningful activities measurably raise it. The core studies are correlational with some experimental support for specific interventions.
- Time Smart Buying Back Your Time Affluence After A Loss
Ashley Whillans’s research shows that "time affluence" — the subjective sense of having enough time — predicts well-being better than income beyond a moderate level, and that concrete practices like outsourcing disliked tasks and protecting time for meaningful activities measurably raise it. The core studies are correlational with some experimental support for specific interventions.
- Time Smart Buying Back Your Time Affluence After A Setback
Ashley Whillans’s research shows that "time affluence" — the subjective sense of having enough time — predicts well-being better than income beyond a moderate level, and that concrete practices like outsourcing disliked tasks and protecting time for meaningful activities measurably raise it. The core studies are correlational with some experimental support for specific interventions.
- Time Smart Buying Back Your Time Affluence As A Caregiver
Ashley Whillans’s research shows that "time affluence" — the subjective sense of having enough time — predicts well-being better than income beyond a moderate level, and that concrete practices like outsourcing disliked tasks and protecting time for meaningful activities measurably raise it. The core studies are correlational with some experimental support for specific interventions.
- Time Smart Buying Back Your Time Affluence At Work
Ashley Whillans’s research shows that "time affluence" — the subjective sense of having enough time — predicts well-being better than income beyond a moderate level, and that concrete practices like outsourcing disliked tasks and protecting time for meaningful activities measurably raise it. The core studies are correlational with some experimental support for specific interventions.
- Time Smart Buying Back Your Time Affluence During Conflict
Ashley Whillans’s research shows that "time affluence" — the subjective sense of having enough time — predicts well-being better than income beyond a moderate level, and that concrete practices like outsourcing disliked tasks and protecting time for meaningful activities measurably raise it. The core studies are correlational with some experimental support for specific interventions.
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