I don’t want happiness, I want money

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HAPPINESS

Income, Poverty, Wealth, Happiness, Money

Economists and psychologists have spent decades studying the relation between wealth and happiness, and they have generally concluded that wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter. Americans who earn $50,000 per year are much happier than those who earn $10,000 per year, but Americans who earn $5 million per year are not much happier than those who earn $100,000 per year. People who live in poor nations are much less happy than people who live in moderately wealthy nations, but people who live in moderately wealthy nations are not much less happy than people who live in extremely wealthy nations. Economists explain that wealth has “declining marginal utility,” which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired, and scared, but once you’ve bought your way out of these burdens, the rest of your money is an increasingly useless pile of paper.

 

Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert, pg. 239

 

So if its not about money what is life about? I will give you 3 takeaways for today that if you can latch onto will steer you well. None of these are earth shattering… unless you don’t practice them… then it can definitely rattle your world. 

 

 

What happens if today you find out you have heart disease? You have cancer? You have MS, you are obese? You realize in seconds how fragile life is and how much our health determines the quality of life. Not the length … but definitely the quality. 

HEALTH

THE WORLD BELONGS TO THE ENERGETIC... Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I am happier when i am healthy… aren’t you? I plan on being around for another 60 years so I need to take care of my body in order to be of value. 

What are you doing to invest in your health? 

 

Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Whats your temple look like? How you keeping it? 

 

 

Speaking of health… Humor is great health.

Scripture tells us the a merry heart doth good like a medicine. Prov. 17:22

Medicine: the cure. It takes care of what ails you. Every get stressed out and and after hanging out with your buddies life is just better? 

When I had my first colonoscopy… they found some polyps and a few seconds later found a huge tumor… My humor got me through this. 

When I had liver cancer my doctor said I have about 5 years to live 50/50… my good friend said thats awesome… that means you have a 100% chance to be alive for the next 2 1/2. 

 

Do you wait for humor? Do you wait for laughter? Don’t - make it happen. Get around the people who make you laugh, watch comedies, tell jokes etc… don’t wait to laugh it is too important in your life. 

 

Holiness

Holiness means set apart. What that means is not perfect, but rather we see the true state of our heart and our nature and we realize how much we need God. We need him to set us apart. 

It is incredibly freeing and life giving to know you are set a part for God for a purpose for eternity. You can live life free… set a part, holy as you were meant to be. Ever have a ball and chain? Imagine carrying that for years… and than having yourself set apart from it. Aahhh life is like this? 

Danger in the Christian walk is when we forget the feeling of being set a part. When we feel like we fit in… that is not a good thing. God help me stand out and be set a part. 

 

The people I have seen with the best attitudes, the most amount of joy and the biggest love for life have these 3 qualities. 

I can name a hundred people right now who don’t have a lot of money, they are not famous, they are not talented, they are not super Christians, they may not even have the best families… but they are happy because they have health, humor and holiness.