A book about money and emotion

“You don't have to fight your nature to be good with money. You have to learn to work with it.”

Behind every investment, every purchase, every postponed financial decision, something stronger than logic is at work. Fear. Comparison. Hope. Habit.

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Sound familiar?

You know what to do. You just don't.

The cheaper loan you don't chase

You know your home loan could be on a lower rate. But the paperwork feels endless, so the bigger EMI quietly rolls on, year after year.

Still timing the market

A simple monthly SIP would make life easier. Instead you wait for the perfect moment, and the gains you wanted slip by while you wait.

The upskilling you keep delaying

You can feel AI reshaping your field. You keep meaning to learn the new tools. Somehow, next month never arrives.

What the book does

Emotional Money is a plain-spoken guide to understanding why you do what you do with money, and building habits that fit how you are actually wired.

Emotional Money doesn't ask you to be more rational. It asks you to be more honest. Drawing on behavioural finance, psychology, and real money stories, the book shows why willpower keeps failing and how systems, defaults, and self-awareness quietly do the work instead.

You won't find shortcuts here. Or market predictions. Or templates designed for someone else's life. What you will find is a calmer relationship with money: clearer choices, smarter defaults, and habits that compound into peace, not just net worth.

The best financial plan isn't the one with the highest returns. It is the one you can actually live with.
What you'll take away
01

See your emotions clearly

They shape more of your money choices than you would guess. The work starts with noticing them, instead of trying to switch them off.

02

Let habits carry the load

Willpower fades. Habits last. Set up a few good ones and the smart money choice starts happening on its own.

03

Spend on your own life

Use your money for the life you actually want, the one that fits you, not a copy of what everyone around you is buying.

What's inside

From paradox to peace, in five chapters

1

The Money Paradox

You did everything right. More income, more boxes ticked. So why does it still feel off?

2

Under the Hood

Your brain runs ancient code in a modern money world. Meet the wiring you were born with.

3

Nurture at Work

Long before you earned a rupee, you inherited a money story. Here's how to read it.

4

Between Impulse and Insight

Two minds argue every time money moves. Learn which one to trust, and when.

5

Peace Over Perfection

What a money life you can actually live with looks like, and how to build it.

Why willpower keeps losing

You often know the smart money move and still don't make it. The reason has more to do with habit than discipline.

43%

Behavioural scientist Wendy Wood spent 30 years studying habits. She found that about 43% of what we do on a given day is pure habit, the same actions repeating on autopilot, with no fresh decision involved. How you spend, save, and invest is part of that. So the book works on your habits and your everyday defaults, the part that quietly runs your money life, rather than leaning on willpower that runs out.

Who wrote it
Animesh Hardia

Animesh Hardia is a Partner at 1 Finance, a SEBI-registered investment advisory. Over more than a decade in research and advisory, he co-built two patented frameworks for measuring financial behaviour, MoneySign® and the Financial Behaviour Score, and he's Editor-in-Chief of 1 Finance Magazine. But it's the everyday work that shaped this book: hundreds of real conversations and portfolio reviews, where he kept seeing the same thing. People change their money habits through better systems and gentler defaults, far more than through more information. And Emotional Money is what came out of it.

Reach me directly at animesh@emotionalmoney.co.in
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