Money Can’t Buy Happiness - or Can It?
Few things are prized more in our western cultures than power and money. The message is strong and clear: you get money, you get happiness. The more money, the more happiness. It’s laced into all of our commercials, it’s laced into the very fiber of our society. Money buys happiness.
Of course you and I aren’t so foolish as to buy into this get happy quick scheme. After all we have endless examples of people with incredible wealth and very little happiness. Hollywood being the prime hot bed for such examples.
And yet, still, some little part of you holds out. The illusion has been planted deep within. Money is fun. A lot of money would be the thing that would tip the scales forever in your favor for major happiness.
No, money doesn’t buy happiness per se, but it sure would make things so much easier. Or would it?
Tony Robbins is one of this century’s greatest motivational gurus. He stands as a towering 6′ 7" example of financial success and happiness; the personification of "money buys happiness." Surely, for Tony Robbins, money buys happiness.
Tony tells a wonderful story however. One we can learn much from. The day Tony’s company went public he made millions. He was at the height of his career–fame and fortune galore. A fairytale. And yet that night he talks about going home depressed, really depressed. One of his biggest dreams had just come true. He had banked millions. But still he went home depressed. The money, the fame, the success didn’t touch what was happening inside Tony.
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