The Power of  Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money
Elizabeth Husserl
New World Library (January 2025)

How to embrace wealth as an experience of joy

Elizabeth Husserl describes this book as “an invitation to explore a new possibility in your relation with money and wealth, where money becomes a trusted mentor that pushes you to expand your horizon and wealth becomes something to embody instead of possess. This requires a radical transformation of how we [especially you] see wealth, how we [especially you]  define money, and the ways we [especially you]  take responsibility for where we’ve [especially you’ve] gone wrong.”

I urge you to assume — and then become convinced  — that Husserl WROTE THIS BOOK SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU.

Read each chapter slowly and carefully. Highlight key passages.

With exceptional skill, Husserl identifies the WHATs of wealth management and the relevance of each to the WHATs of happiness management. Each is separate but all of them are interdependent.

As you absorb and digest the material in The Power of Enough, you will become involved in what seeems like — and in fact is — a journey of personal discovery. Elizabeth Husserl is your your tour guide. Think in terms of achieving these three objectives. Each is essential to your personal growth and professional development:

1. Redefine wealth and money
2. Embody wealth and cultivate satiation
3. Master tools

Frankly, I am reluctant to “give away” too much of this book’s “plot.” Also, I do not wish to suggest to you that your “journey of personal discovery” will resemble a stroll in the Bavarian woods. Many people far wiser than I have correctly insisted that an unexamined life is not worth living (Socrates), that most people lead lives of quiet desperation (Henry David Thoreau), and that we should cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it (Voltaire).

Yes, it will be a great challenge to find joy in your relationship with money but if you think that success costs too much, try failure.

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Here are two suggestions while you are reading The Power of Enough: First, as suggested earlier, highlight key passages. Also,  perhaps in a notebook kept near-at-hand (e.g. Apica Premium C.D. Notebook A5), record your comments, questions, and action steps (preferably with deadlines). Pay special attention to the Introduction and to the end-of-chapter “Takeaways.” The latter include action steps for which Elizabeth Husserl has carefully prepared you.

These two simple tactics — highlighting and documenting — will expedite frequent reviews of key material later.