the key to happiness. So this morning my wife told me that she wanted a Chanel bag and i was
completely surprised because one of the primary reasons why i married her is because she was or i
guess she still is very unsuperficial she doesn't really care about designer clothes or things
of that nature and i'm at the complete extreme end of not caring about any designer clothes or
anything like that in fact when i buy something i feel a lot of anxiety to actually maintain it
so if someone gave me something that was expensive that was a name brand i would immediately sell it
because i don't want the stress or the ocd that comes along with actually maintaining something
i have a tendency to wear the same clothes every single day i think that if you really want to
be happy you have to do what you can with what you have where you are and i think that one of
the most important ways to increase your level of happiness is to actually appreciate what you have
remember do what you can with what you have where you are and there have been numerous
studies about how materialistic items do not impart any long-standing increases in happiness
because what happens is that you'll get a slight dopamine increase from that materialistic item
but then your baseline level of happiness is not going to increase based upon an object that you
have so you're going to have to continuously feed that and that's why a lot of people end up getting
addicted to shopping and to buying things because they end up experiencing a short-term dopamine hit
when they buy something and it makes them feel good for a day or a week and then their baseline
happiness drops back to where it was previously and then they want to try to recapture that high
and this is actually something that's very similar to eating a lot of sugar or being a drug addict
you're always chasing that high and people become shopaholics for me personally i just choose not
to participate if everyone was like me then there would probably be no designer clothes
or no designer brands available i'm someone who's reasonably happy and who's incredibly
minimalistic in what i choose to buy and what i choose to own so i think that one of the big
takeaways of this video if you want to increase your happiness then find a way to increase your
level of appreciation and your level of desire for something that you already have and do your best
with what you have where you are you should find a way to desire and appreciate what you already
have and going back and circling back to what my wife said do i think that i'll end up buying her
a snow bag i would say the likelihood of that is really really low that's basically it that's you
know i was like really surprised when she told me that but i just want to share my thoughts for you
about how you can experience a really quick win and how you can increase your level of happiness
by just simply appreciating and increasing the level of desire for things that you already have
and that's by far the most important thing because there have been numerous research studies which
have indicated that engaging in consumerism and buying a lot of things that you really don't need
is an easy way to end up going broke and causing you financial pain in the future and also from a
long-term perspective it's not even going to increase your level of happiness what will
increase your level of happiness experiences and relationships so if you have an opportunity
to either spend a few thousand dollars on something that is a material item or
something that's an experience like taking a trip or creating new memories definitely
take that opportunity to go on the trip to create new experiences because those are memories that
are going to serve you very well in the future David Jaffee with beststockstrategy.com visit
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