This week, I’m talking about how gratitude changes your outlook on money. Today, I’m talking about how gratitude helps disconnect your happiness with having more stuff. If you sat down and made a list of the 10 things in your life that you’re most grateful for, my guess is that the top of your list would be occupied by life’s essentials - the people you love, your home, your job, good food and clean water. Probably not your latest purchase. 

Deep down we all know that real and lasting happiness can’t be found in a pumpkin spice latte, yet we are still tricked into believing that the pleasure-seeking variety of happiness, which is always short-lived, will make us happy. 

We we aren’t grateful, we quickly become discontent, which can lead to trying to find happiness in having more stuff, or even filling our days with more busyness and doing more, going on vacation, which are more subtle but still fall into the pleasure-seeking category. I’m not saying that going on vacation is wrong, but that it won’t lead to authentic happiness. 

So when we are able to disconnect happiness with having more stuff, and understand that we will never find happiness in having more stuff, but find contentment in what we already have, we can spend money in a more responsible way. And when our spending isn’t used as a means to buy happiness, we can better use our financial resources to achieve bigger and more important goals - things like saving enough for your kids' college, getting out of debt, paying off your mortgage, or saving enough for retirement. 

That’s it for today. But before you go, you probably know someone who is close to retirement and could benefit from listening to this podcast. If so, please share this podcast with them and encourage them to check it out by adding it to their flash briefing in Alexa or subscribing wherever they listen to podcasts! 

Thanks for listening. My name is Ashley Micciche and this is the One Minute Retirement Tip.

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