Can Money Buy You Happiness?

Money doesn’t really buy you happiness; it gives you choices.

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be,” Abraham Lincoln.

Today’s generation is tricked by the idea that money can buy us happiness. I’m here to tell you we’ve been fooled by a fallacy.

Happiness is a choice, not a product on a shelf waiting to be bought.

Money gives you more choices.

It all starts with one initial choice. Let that resonate.

We start with a choice. With that choice, we make money. With that money, we get more choices.

Money itself isn’t what makes us feel fulfilled. What we really want are the choices that money allows us to make.

Therefore, the goal here isn’t really the monetary value. The goal is what you can do with the money.

Spend your choices just as wisely as you spend your money.

The cycle of spending money applies the same to the expense of our choices. The value of money is to spend with the intention of getting more money in return. This is why we are taught to spend our money wisely.

When you spend your money without thought, it goes away; this is a choice that determines further uses of that money.

Therefore, the choice of what you do with that money is gone when the money itself goes away.

If you save your money, the choice of what to do with it remains.

The same can be said about choices. We make choices for the purpose of being able to make more choices.

Now what? We need to be spending our choices just as wisely!

Prioritize your choices

The most valuable of your choices is how you choose to spend your time.

You don’t need to be rich to gain choices, but you need to be persistent and have intention with everything you do. The money is just a plus. *wink, wink*

You become wealthy with both choices and money when you spend your time with productive intention.

But what really does constitute our happiness?

Money doesn’t create our sense of contentment. You can be swimming in pools of money but still be unhappy.

There’s one factor that creates happiness in our emotional lives; it’s our own minds.

Like Abe Lincoln says, we are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. Read that one more time.

The outlook we have on our life is what dictates how we feel about it.

When we choose to think more positively about everything we face; the good, the bad and the indifferent, we are able to progress toward finding pure happiness.

Remember, it’s all about what you choose to put in your mind.

For more on how to think positively, even through life’s challenges, check out: Obtaining a positive mindset.