How can you become happier? Try this experiment. Start mentally pretending that you already have what it is that you think you want. Let's say you want more money, wake up in the morning and say, "I love that I'm making more money."
Now, don't confuse this for just visualization with no action because after that, once you start creating that emotion, that I already have what I want, then you go out and are fueled by that to just go out and act. Act in that way. If you say, "I want to be great at investing and saving my money." Then, just say to yourself, "I love that I'm great at saving and investing money."
When it comes time to spend all your money or put a little in a savings account, your mind will be expecting that you're a great saver and a great investor. This goes beyond visualization. This is visualization in action. Positive thinking with action attached to it. You need both.
You can do this for every area including happiness. I was think a little bit about what I said earlier on how to be happier. One of the things that I realized is happiness is an outgrowth of multiple factors. A lot of people oversimplify happiness, and so I wasn't trying to earlier oversimplify.
What I was saying is basically I'll lay it out like this formula. To be happy is very similar to creating a good bowl of soup. To create a good bowl of soup, you need to have a little chicken broth. Let's say it's chicken noodle soup. You can't just have chicken broth only. You need some salt. You need some vegetables
and celery and salt and all those things.
There's no one factor. Some factors are bigger than others. Just like in soup, you need more broth than you need salt. What happens is in
life we get stuck. My hair's a little crazy here. We get stuck. Why? Well, because we are where we are now, and it's hard to conjure up the faith to get where we want to be.
What I was saying about earlier about visualization, the reason visualization is important even though it's not the only thing you need because you got to take action, is that visualization bridges the gap as I was illustrating earlier. If you're horrible at saving money. Right? You suck at it. You always pretty much spend or get into debt. You're here. To be happier, one of the ingredients in the soup of happiness is financial security.
You don't have to be a millionaire or a billionaire, but it's been proven over and over again ...
Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize as an economist. I think he's at Princeton. He did extensive research, high-level, scientific research by one of the most respected economist, and he found that if you're making too little income, the stress that comes with that decreases your happiness.
It's not true that money doesn't increase happiness. It does up to a point. It doesn't mean again you have to be a millionaire or a billionaire to happy. He found that the threshold of around $70,000.00 a year in the United States and most western countries.
You're here, let's say for example. You suck at saving money. One of the things to be happier is what I'm talking about. You got to jump over to here where you're better. How do you bridge that gap? That takes faith, and faith is hard. That's why very few people have it. I'm not talking about faith in the religious sense. I'm talking about the belief that you can jump from there to there, because everyone of us, myself included, we get stuck.
When you're stuck, the longer you get stuck
, the more you start to lose hope that you can ever get unstuck. You see that with patterns of addiction and drinking and alcohol. One of the ways that I use and I found it's amazing.
It works amazingly well, much better than you think. Is to start just acting in your mind like you're already there. They call it self-talk. You don't want your friends to think you're crazy. You don't have to literally talk out loud unless you're in the shower. I do a lot in the shower.
Then, you just start staying to yourself like, you know what? I use this pattern so you can adopt it and copy it or come up with your own. I just say, "I love blank." I would just say when I'm over here and I suck at saving money, I just say, "I love that I'm good at saving money. I love that I don't always go into debt. I love that my net
worth is going up. I love that my bank account is going up. I love that I'm able to resist spending when I know I should save."
I found you have to start saving this to yourself everyday or at least four or five times a week for approximately ... It's starts to kick in two weeks to about three months later. I don't know if that's an exact. There's no science I can prove this. One thing I found is that the worst the habit is, sometimes the more you have to do this before it kicks in. Just try it. Like I said, I found it works extremely well.
Try it out for yourself. If you've ever done it, let me know your results. I'd love to hear that, and like I said, you can use this not just to be better with investing. If you're not good at dieting, if you're not fit, that will affect your happiness. You can use this to start saying, "I love that I resist eating ice cream at midnight. I love that I work out four times a week." Just start saying that. Then, and I'll talk this in future videos, you got to kick in and do the action. This is just like a jumpstart, a jumpstart. You still got to do the action. You can't just do this. Okay? Leave a comment. I hope this daily
happiness tip of the day helps you out.
All right. Talk to you soon.
Stay Strong,
Tai
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