The Ways to Be Rich and Happy
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Yesterday I was listening to a local radio station channel on my way to attend an appointment. The program is a discussion program that covers a weekly topic and interview with some of the experts for a discussion. This week their topic is Should we blame ourselves for not enough money?
Yesterday was the last day for this discussion and they covered another interesting topics that how to be rich and happy. According to the expert, most rich people are not happy as what we always imagine. Yes they might have a lot of money and they can own most of the things that they want. However, in fact they have lost something valuable that make them regret and unhappy. The expert gave a few examples on this issue which he collected through his professional. Yes, he is a counselor.
What it Takes To Be Rich and Happy?
According to the expert, we will happy only if we can fulfill the 5 categories of “needs”. Of course part of it is financial or money. So if you want to be rich and happy, then we must also fulfill another 4 “needs” listed below:
- Relationship – Besides money, we are also looking for love, cares and encouragements from our friends and families. While we are fighting for our goal to be rich, we need some supports or encouragements from people around us. After we succeed, we always look for someone to celebrate and share our success. This is our human nature of thinking. Don’t you agree that all of us need love from others to be happy? So if you are fighting for your goal, please don’t forget your love one and families. According to the counselor, most people will ignore their relationship with others and hence break it. This is also the main reason why some rich people are not happy because they lose their love one.
- Health – I always hear that “health is our biggest wealth”. I agree with this statement. So in order to be happy, we must own 2 kinds of “wealth”. One is money and another is our health. Please imagine that if your body is weak and sick, you will not have the power and mood to spend your money to get something you like. Instead, you always spend your money on medical treatment. Do you think you will happy if your life is like this? For example, I love travelling and I think most people will be the same like me. Travelling is an activity that needs both health and money. If I lost anyone of them, my life will be suffering and gloom. This is why health is very important for us.
- Emotional Mastery – I believe that our emotion is very important for us and it can affect anything in our life directly. Emotional Mastery means controlling our emotion. I always call this “increasing our EQ (Emotion intelligence)”. I found that by mastering our emotion, we can actually master other fields of our life too. For example, if we can master our emotion and stop being angry in certain time, we can actually avoid a lot of argument and save our relationship with people around us. If we can control our emotion and also others’ emotion, we can run our business very well and make lot of money. Or even for the most basic, we can control our emotion and be happy at anytime, anywhere that we want to. At this moment, you don’t really depend on money to be happy instead you can control your emotion and be happy.
- Time Freedom – We all love freedom, don’t you? People have different definition on time freedom. For me, time freedom means that you can have more choice to do something you like and love instead of follow a fix schedule. For example, the reason why I don’t like a job is because it controls my time. I just feel I’m lacking of choice and freedom on my time because I have to go to my office in certain time. Besides that it also disturbs my life too. So I agree with the counselor that if we own most of the money in the world but we don’t have time to do something that we enjoy and love, then we might suffer from our life.
Follow our Heart and Personal Intuition
I believe that our heart knew the best for us. Sometime it is good for us to follow our personal intuition. Our subconscious actually knew what is good and what is bad for us. So our personal intuition can be a good signal from our subconscious mind. So follow it and we can live happily.
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