How to use money to boost your happiness

Each week the NZ Herald's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's the balance between money and happiness. Hosted by Frances Cook. <br /><br />I'm a firm believer that managing your money is actually about anything but money. <br /><br />Piling up cash just for the sake of it isn't just boring, it's pointless. Study after study has shown a big pile of cash on its own won't make you happy. <br /><br />But deciding what you want out of life, and using money as a tool to get you there? Now that's something I could talk about all day. <br /><br />The latest research from ANZ shows the sorts of changes that most of us would like to make when thinking along these lines. <br /><br />Especially after the impacts of Covid-19, family is the most important thing for most of us: 68 per cent of those surveyed said wealth was being able to pay for things that would help their family thrive. <br /><br />Unfortunately while trying to do that, 77 per cent of us feel like we could do better with our money. <br /><br />The biggest priority for most people is learning how to invest or save more money, while paying off debt and mortgages is the second biggest area. <br /><br />For the latest podcast I talked to Ben Kelleher, managing director for personal banking at ANZ.<br /><br />If you have a question about this podcast, or question you'd like answered in the next one, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/</a> Instagram here <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/</a> and Twitter here <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesCook" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/FrancesCook</a>