I've always thought that lifestyle trumps money, status and biceps. If you can choose your lifestyle and enjoy every second of it that has to be as close to happiness as ever possible. Bertrand Russell agrees with me on this one I might add.
Well, maybe not only lifestyle. I would add attitude and confidence as two crucial life ingredients to spice up the walk through life.
It fascinates me how we crave for fortune (money), attention (fame) and status (titles) as well as how we would do most everything - might that be politically correct and well executed - to reach the Nirvana on earth: the altar of Mammon.
Life is too important to have money thrown at you while running naked down the street with people cheering you on. It contradicts every sensible bone in my body and should in yours. That said I do like money but not at any price.
To live your life the way you want it has to be the most gratifying rewards of them all. Miles away from the corporate pad on the back or the "Well done, Sonny!" at the Xmas party.
I tend to use two different hats when I look at life; my present hat (more like a cap) and my 80-year old hat (more like a beret). They work as great perspective and decision-making filters. If something passes through both filters then both the retrospect and the present has concluded that the pursuit is worthy.
Just ask yourself: When you're 80 years old, what kind of life would you have wanted to live? The answer puts things in perspecitve and makes status-whoring the second most despised trade in the world.
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