Measuring Happiness with Money
Measuring Happiness with Money
Unwealthy people think that there is a direct correlation between happiness and money, that the more money you have, the happier you are, and vice versa.
• Anna wants more money, so she can move to a bigger house.
• Peter wants more money, so he can get tailor-made clothing.
• Sophia wants more money, so she can go out more.
• John wants more money, so he can travel overseas.
• Carolyn wants more money, so she can get her kids what she didn’t have.
• Mark wants more money, so he can become more attractive to women.
• Joan wants more money, so she doesn’t depend on her husband.
• Tom wants more money, so he can support a local charity.
• Lisa wants more money, so she can quit her job and become a singer.
• Paul wants more money, so he can retire and stop working. Wanting more money to do something is ok as long as it is not preventing you from enjoying yourself.
To think that happiness is related to money is an old paradigm. Yes, we all love the stories of the poor family that was so loving to each other that they did not need money…or the stories about the rich family that was horrible because they had too much money. All these stories are written by people who need to justify that they are not wealthy. It is ok to want more money and to have a purpose for that money. What unwealthy people do is tie their unhappiness to the amount of money they have, only to realize that they are not happier after they got what they wanted to get with the more money.
If you are thinking that you want more money to enjoy your life, it is time to wonder how you can enjoy your life with what you’ve got. Happy people work better, become more attractive and use less resources to get things done. By liberating some of those resources, you are able to focus on what you love, work better, have more joy in your life and free time to think creatively about making more money in a way that fulfills other, more emotional and spiritual needs. Unwealthy people think that money buys happiness. The vaccine to measuring your happiness in monetary terms is to feel in control of your own happiness regardless of your monetary situation. Once you feel good about what you have accomplished you get out of the rat race and become picky about what you do to make money, you select things that give you enormous pleasure and you thrive at those things. You become so good at it that your value to the world increases, you become more attractive and can be choosy. Not only you generate resources in a way that is more fulfilling to you individually, but you feel good about what you do, and you do better things.
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