So there's an easy mindset to fall into of if I just made this amount of money, I would be happy.

Or if I had this amount of money, I would be happy.

But even research shows that that's not really how happiness works.

So today, hopefully you're going to learn

three easy ways to break the I'll be happy win cycle so that you can find joy in the presence.

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So there's a well-known study from Princeton University that measured the connection between

money and happiness. And the findings suggest that emotional awareness, There's a well-known study from Princeton University that measured the connection between money

and happiness, and the findings suggest that emotional well-being, aka happiness, doesn't

increase much beyond an income of $75,000 a year.

Now, when the study was done, and if you take inflation, in today's dollars, that would be

a $100,000 income.

So to me, it really proves this point that, like, convenience and comfort with money can only get you a level of happiness up to a certain point.

So if that's true, then why do we still play this game of I'll be happy when?

Well, two things really come to mind.

Number one is that the world

makes feeling content hard for us because we live in a world where discontentment is so real.

Like we are seeing everyone's life all the time, things that we don't have. There's tons of

conveniences now that we have that we didn't have even 10, 15 years ago,

everything from like getting your groceries delivered or like fill in the blank. And so there can be

this feeling of I am behind because it feels like everyone else is winning. Everyone else feels like

they are moving up in their jobs. They're making so much money, they're going

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