MJ DeMarco
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Have a story where real financial freedom and abundance brought you joy and happiness?
Share your story here.
If you don't have a story, I will share many from my life. These are stories where having real financial wealth had a direct and meaningful impact on your happiness and/or lowered stress.
Background:
If you ever hear anyone say, "money doesn't buy happiness," you're talking to a fool. You can immediately presume the following about anyone who parrots such a tired cliche:
You know that old platitude that more money beyond $75K a year doesn't impact happiness? Ha Ha, what a joke. Don't believe that ancient bullshit that propagates the mediocrity agenda.
With the emergence of smartphone technology, scientists now (finally) admit that money indeed impacts happiness, and FAR BEYOND levels previously thought.
If anyone tells you they enjoy standing in line for 5 hours at a crowded airport while being stuffed in economy class on an airplane, they're liars.
If anyone tells you they enjoy inhaling diesel fumes in their 30-year-old truck, they're liars.
In anyone tells you they enjoy passing that nice restaurant for the umpteenth time because "it's not in the budget," they're liars.
Beware of liars.
Here are some stories that demonstrate how money directly impacts happiness. I plan on adding several per week from my life.
In 2018, Hachi, our rescue puppy we adopted and saved many years ago (he was 1 day away from euthanasia), suffered multiple ACL tears in both his hind legs.
He was unable to walk, play, or do his business.
The prognosis was to put him down as his quality of life would have been eliminated.
Or, I could pay for 2 costly surgeries involving screws and metal implants in an attempt to repair his legs. One surgery, wait 8 weeks and do it again.
I thought about this expensive decision for 1.3 seconds.
Here's my credit card: how fast can we get it done?
Both surgeries were successful, and years later, I'm happy to report Hachi is as playful as ever, even as an old man! Having Hachi in our family's life has brought us tremendous happiness.
And it all was made possible because I had money, not just "I can pay my bills" money, but an abundance of it.
Share your story here.
If you don't have a story, I will share many from my life. These are stories where having real financial wealth had a direct and meaningful impact on your happiness and/or lowered stress.
Background:
If you ever hear anyone say, "money doesn't buy happiness," you're talking to a fool. You can immediately presume the following about anyone who parrots such a tired cliche:
- This person is broke and has given up on obtaining true financial freedom. The old Fox and Grapes parable comes to mind where the Fox refuses to admit defeat and instead lies to himself, proclaiming, "Meh, I never wanted those sour grapes."
- The person has deep psychological issues; in many cases, money might not have a meaningful impact.
- That person inaccurately deploys binary logic and presumes that having tremendous financial resources involves working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and therefore, the money has less utility value.
- That person is trying to sell you something, often a financial plan of lowered expectations, minimalistic standards, and mediocrity. Settling for less is not a financial plan; it's just a Scripted plan that doesn't want to BEAT the system; it wants to DENY it and suffer the consequences. The World Economic Forum approves.
You know that old platitude that more money beyond $75K a year doesn't impact happiness? Ha Ha, what a joke. Don't believe that ancient bullshit that propagates the mediocrity agenda.
With the emergence of smartphone technology, scientists now (finally) admit that money indeed impacts happiness, and FAR BEYOND levels previously thought.
If anyone tells you they enjoy standing in line for 5 hours at a crowded airport while being stuffed in economy class on an airplane, they're liars.
If anyone tells you they enjoy inhaling diesel fumes in their 30-year-old truck, they're liars.
In anyone tells you they enjoy passing that nice restaurant for the umpteenth time because "it's not in the budget," they're liars.
Beware of liars.
Here are some stories that demonstrate how money directly impacts happiness. I plan on adding several per week from my life.
TALE #1 OF REAL FINANCIAL FREEDOM
In 2018, Hachi, our rescue puppy we adopted and saved many years ago (he was 1 day away from euthanasia), suffered multiple ACL tears in both his hind legs.
He was unable to walk, play, or do his business.
The prognosis was to put him down as his quality of life would have been eliminated.
Or, I could pay for 2 costly surgeries involving screws and metal implants in an attempt to repair his legs. One surgery, wait 8 weeks and do it again.
I thought about this expensive decision for 1.3 seconds.
Here's my credit card: how fast can we get it done?
Both surgeries were successful, and years later, I'm happy to report Hachi is as playful as ever, even as an old man! Having Hachi in our family's life has brought us tremendous happiness.
And it all was made possible because I had money, not just "I can pay my bills" money, but an abundance of it.
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