Happiness

 

We are finishing up our course this week. If I was to do one final lecture about this course, I would do it about “making money for the right reasons.” Throughout the course we have been warned about money and the greed and lust that can come with it if your heart isn’t in the right place. We need to always follow the 6 steps from Jim Ritchie and to always make our goals to help serve other people. That should be our motivation for everything we do. And if we have money to help other people, than use that money for good.

If you were to begin your entrepreneurial journey, I would tell you to have a purpose. What is your purpose? It should be to support your family and to help your community. I would caution you to not let the money get to your head.

One interesting thing I learned this week was about our overall happiness. People think that we will be happy once we have money and a big house. But we learned that that is not always the case. Having a big house and lots of money would be nice, but it won’t increase your happiness. Humans have a baseline of happiness that you’re born with, and it doesn’t deviate too much from that. We were shown a graph of America’s happiness and the increase of wealth. Humans stayed at a consistent 30% of happiness even though Americans on average got richer. We also learned that if you buy a bigger house or a new car or whatever…your happiness only lasts for about 3 months and then you go right back to your baseline of happiness. Then you start wanting the next big thing in your life. So it’s better to find internal happiness than to use your money to find happiness.