Are you mistakenly projecting your value for freedom onto your money?
You know it's true when your internal brain chatter sounds something like, "I'll be happier and start living the way I truly want as soon as I achieve X" (replace X with a specific goal or level of financial security). The underlying belief is that when you achieve the objective then the various causes for your unfulfilled life will be solved.
Guess what? It doesn't work that way…
The truth is that unless you are living in abject poverty there is little or no relationship between increasing your financial success and your level of happiness. Achieving a goal won't do it because your happiness can never depend on a specific circumstance outside of you. Every study ever conducted on the subject proves this out and my own personal experience confirms the same. Money and achievement are not related to your happiness.
You know it's true when your internal brain chatter sounds something like, "I'll be happier and start living the way I truly want as soon as I achieve X" (replace X with a specific goal or level of financial security). The underlying belief is that when you achieve the objective then the various causes for your unfulfilled life will be solved.
Guess what? It doesn't work that way…
The truth is that unless you are living in abject poverty there is little or no relationship between increasing your financial success and your level of happiness. Achieving a goal won't do it because your happiness can never depend on a specific circumstance outside of you. Every study ever conducted on the subject proves this out and my own personal experience confirms the same. Money and achievement are not related to your happiness.
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