Hey everybody, welcome to the weekly wisdom. This is Dean Graciosi. I'm here in my backyard on my iPhone, but I had a really important video or message I wanted to share with you today.

You know, heading into the holiday season, there'll be a lot of presence and gifts and happiness and

wanting to share with my children that happiness is more than just external factors that give you a temporary boost.

What I said was, hey guys, if you get what Santa asked you and you're so excited, will

that make you happy?

And I said, but what if I took that present and I wrapped it for you

and gave it to you next week and gave it to you the next week give it to you next week give it to you

next week what it kind of wear off and like yeah and what I was trying to say is

enjoy your presence and love them.

But happiness comes from the inside.

It comes when you become the thermostat of life, not the thermometer,

not changing who you are, how you feel when there's a too liberal of a present or too conservative of a present

or when the economy is good or when the economy is bad or when your husband or wife is good to you or when your husband and life is bad

when your kids are bad.

When you have money in the bank or no money in the bank, believe me,

I am in no way saying that money doesn't help with happiness.

I'm an absolute advocate.

Dan Sullivan says, if you can cut a check for a a problem you don't have that problem, that is true.

When you can cut a check to help other people or build security in your own life or help strangers.

That money is an amazing thing to go after and I hope you are but what I'm sharing today is that I want to make sure you don't chase things because I did for years thinking when I made that certain amount of money when there was something different going on in my life

then I'll be happy don't put off being happy until tomorrow find your happiness now

and maybe that's easier said than done you might be saying well, well Dean, you got money now, it's easy.

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