Are you valuing the right type of affluence?
If you value money over time, you might be doing it wrong
I’ve been making the rounds on various podcasts this month to support the release of The Fun Habit. A hot topic in many conversations is the concept of time affluence. Having a sense of time affluence essentially means that you feel you have an equitable amount of agency and autonomy over the way your time is spent in your daily life.
Below, you will find nine articles with valuable information on how to use time affluence to your advantage, a great strategy for having more fun and potentially greater happiness. Please enjoy and, as always, if you have any feedback or are aware of a great article I’ve missed on this topic—I’d love to hear from you.
“Time affluence” is at an all-time low, and it’s making us miserable (Dropbox)
— The tension between time and money.
Buying time promotes happiness (PNAS)
— A previously unexamined route from wealth to well-being: spending money to buy free time.
Want to Be Happier? Value Time Over Money (Video)
— Ashley Whillans offers advice on reclaiming your time to be happier.
New Study: You Already Have Enough Free Time (INC)
— The magic amount of free time for maximum happiness.
Why having too much free time can be as bad for you as having too little
(The Washington Post)
— An individual’s well-being increases in correlation with their free time — but only to a certain point.
Why More Time, Not More Money, Is the Key to Happiness (Video)
— Cassie Holmes shares her study results in this short 2-min video snippet.
Making Better Use of Your Free Time (Psychology Today)
— What are time affluence, famine, and confetti?
Which of these six time traps is eating up all your time? (TED)
— The first step to becoming time smart is identifying the time traps in your life.
Having too little or too much time is linked to lower subjective well-being
(Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
— Can there be a downside to having too much discretionary time?
I hope you find the takeaways from the set of articles for this month as valuable as I have.
Yours in fun,
Mike Rucker, Ph.D.