Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

by Bill Perkins

Although we all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. Squandering our lives should be a much greater worry.

“What Good Is Wealth Without Health?”

Many psychological studies have shown that spending money on experiences makes us happier than spending money on things.

Start actively thinking about the life experiences you’d like to have, and the number of times you’d like to have them. The experiences can be large or small, free or costly, charitable or hedonistic. But think about what you really want out of this life in terms of meaningful and memorable experiences.

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that’s all there is.”