How do we find the things that we really need and will help enrich our lives? By focusing FIRST on the things that spending money CAN'T BUY: Health, Wealth, and Relationships. Health: Your body is your temple. Your vehicle from birth to death. Your interface with the outside world is not meant to be through your computer. It is through your body. It is how others view you and how you view others. How you express emotions, how you get things done. Without good health, nothing else matters because you cannot experience life without it. Walking, dancing, and sex would not be possible with poor health. You would be like King Midas, where everything he touches turns to gold, where he has all the wealth in the world but sadly not able to experience any of it. if you sacrifice time for money, you have already lost because you will be spending most if not all of that money buying your health back. Wealth: As we have discussed, the more you spend, you more you will have to work to make it back. Furthermore, the less you will have to build your army of income-producing assets which will work for you to produce more money while you sleep, eat or have sex. Relationships: Great relationships, whether it be friends or romantic encounters, can make or break a person. It can define their character, change their outlook on life and affect both their self confidence and self esteem. Great relationships can only be established through shared experiences. Good friends, good relationships, and a healthy body. Once we have our lives in order, suddenly advertisements become much less appealing. If you had the body of a Greek God, good self esteem and great self confidence, corporations would have a REALLY hard time trying to convince you to buy their products. Before you buy something, ask yourself if you will use it everyday, or at least use it regularly for a year or more. If it is a brand new pair of running shoes and you are training for your first marathon, you should buy it. If you haven't stepped foot in a gym before and are hoping the new shoes will motivate you to go more and turn you into a fitness model, perhaps you should hold off on buying until after you have a established a solid workout regiment. ' Coco Chanel once said "The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive" Only when you are accomplished in all three areas of the "free" quadrant can you truly find long term fulfillment in the things that money can buy. Lastly, cliche as it sounds, you need to love or at least be driven by what you do to make money everyday. Otherwise you will never be good or successful at it. The best road for mediocrity? To keep doing something that you hate to do, day in and day out. Your mind is smart. It automatically zones out when you are doing something you do not like to do. You start making careless mistakes, you start daydreaming, and your mind wanders. This is a coping mechanism prisoners do. You can trap the body of a person but the mind is far harder to enslave. If you notice this, you need to change jobs as soon as possible. Humans get depressed when they have no real goals to accomplish. When they are depressed, other areas of their lives suffer. It causes a snowball effect. You will never meet a successful businessman without a passion or who doesn't love what they do. This is the same reason why you will never see a professional athletes who doesn't love what they do. They simply can't compete otherwise. The same cannot be said for most office workers, who can't wait to leave the office. When Usher sang DJ Got Us Falling in Love,Thank God the week is done, I feel like a zombie gone back to life, he meant it literally. Yes, people dance to this song after working jobs they hate. Ironic, isn’t it?