879 Money as a Tool For Happiness

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Inspiration, Education, Greatness, Celebrity, Money, Relationships, Mindset, Health, Business, Self-improvement, Self Care, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Success, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

MONEY IS A GREAT SERVANT BUT A BAD MASTER. Money can get a bad rap. You hear stories of people who worked so hard to get it, and it left them feeling unhappy. Some people even call it the root of all evil. But what if you used money as a tool for happiness? If you spend it wisely, it can help you have better health, better relationships, and more time for the things that fill you up. Instead of making money the problem, make it work for you. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Gretchen Rubin where she talked about her research on happiness and money. She says that happiness, like money, should be something we observe in the good times and the bad. Learn how to improve your relationship with happiness in Episode 879. In This Episode You Will Learn: Why you need to think about happiness in the good times and the bad (2:00) How money relates to happiness (03:00) The difference between buying things and experiences (3:30) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/879 and follow at http://www.instagram.com/879

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0:00.0	This is 5 Minute Friday!
0:05.4	Now today's episode is with the one and only Gretchen Rubin.
0:14.4	And for those that don't know who she is, she's really taken off in the last half decade
0:19.3	with her books and her blog.
0:21.1	She's a New York Times bestseying author of several books, including The Happiness Project
0:25.5	and her newest, better than before, mastering the habits of our everyday lives.
0:31.5	She is also a host of a very popular podcast called Happier with Gretchen Rubin, and she's
0:37.6	on there with her sister talking about similar topics that she covers in her books and her
0:42.0	blog.
0:43.2	So I think happiness is something that it's sort of like, it's like money.
0:53.2	It's good to think about money when you're worried about money and it's good to think about
0:56.0	money when you're not worried about money because that's also a good time to be thinking
0:58.8	about money.
0:59.8	It's like this is important for health.
1:02.0	You want to think about health when you're not in good health, but when you're in good
1:04.8	health you also want to think about your health because you still got to be doing stuff
1:07.7	that's going to protect that health.
1:09.8	You don't want to take it from granted.
1:11.5	And I feel like happiness is the same way.
1:13.5	When we don't, we need to think about it, but then when we do have it, I think we need
1:16.9	to think about it then as well.
1:19.0	And so I think that the risk for most of us is not that we overthink it, but that we
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