Most people I know always say " I need to become a millionaire" or I want to become rich before 30", and for many people, having money is what will determine the level of happiness they experience in life. However what they do not realize is that happiness is just an emotion and not particularly a result of an action. Think about it, if you just smile for no reason or even laugh out of the blue for no reason, doesn't that mean that you are happy?
I was the same way, and like many my main goal has always been to become rich, until I really thought about how I would feel when I did in fact achieve financial success. I realized that achieving financial prosperity is not the goal I should be going for, but rather I should be chasing the experiences that would make me happy in life. For example I made a list of all the places I would like to travel to in my lifetime, and after making that list I calculated how much it would cost me to go on a safari in Africa or to go on a Euro Trip. I also made a list of all the cars I would like to own in my lifetime and calculated how much they would cost as well. I essentially created a long list of all the things I would like to acquire in my lifetime and how much they would cost me. By creating this list, it made it more clear to me exactly how much money I need in order to feel rich , and where as before I used to say I want to become a millionaire or rich, now I say I need to make 10 million dollars in order to get what I want from life. Even though ten million is still considered a high number to many, at least for me I now know that I do not to need to have 100 or 200 million to be happy, I only need 10 million. And what this allows me to do is work on achieving that number rather than not knowing what level of rich I want to reach.
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