Wealth & Happiness

Your focus should never be the money, but how that money can elevate the meaning in your life. If dollars dictate your direction in life, you’ll find yourself on an endless search of “what’s next?”

Your life is not meant to be measured by accomplishments and hard work, but a life full of experiences that you may never have if you are always looking for that next thing.

Which would you choose: To be 20 years old with $0 – Or, to be Warren Buffett’s age (92) with $100 billion? Many align on the first option, and the reasoning for this ties into our shifting views of time, money and health as we age.

You could be the wealthiest person in the world and still feel unhappy. Money and success aren’t at the root of happiness, but these tools can be leveraged to enhance your purpose and elevate the meaning you experience in life.

Your natural money mindset might be to accumulate as much money as possible, but tales of even the wealthiest individuals tell us wealth isn’t the end all, be all.

Life Fulfillment = Time + Health + Money. That’s the equation you need for maximizing life’s experiences, and in that particular order.

"If you could speak to your 32-year-old self, what advice would you give?" This was the question author Sahil Bloom asked a group of 90-year-olds in honor of his 32nd birthday.

Investment guru Warren Buffett never let the media or opinions of others sway his investment decisions, and neither should you. Inevitable wealth is built by focusing on your behavior instead of the noise around you.

In today’s society, many of us measure progress through metrics to quantify our growth and overall life trajectory. Whether it’s a bank account total, salary, calories burned, leads brought in, etc., we always have a number to go by.

The gap between expectations and reality is where powerful emotion is felt, especially the larger we perceive that gap to be.

Have you reached your “cross-over point” of time and money? The perceptions you hold around the value around these two subjects will change throughout life, but there comes a point when you realize that time holds the most value.

Your expectations have enormous power in affecting the way you perceive life events. They influence your response to things that happen to you, especially in difficult situations.