From Get Rich Slowly – Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Remembering to Appreciate What I Already Have

Walking home from work today, I decided to take the long way. Most of the time, I choose the easy quarter-mile stroll downhill from the office to our happy half acre (or happy .62 acre, if you’d like to be precise). But to celebrate the first day of summer, I took the river-forest loop. The river-forest loop is exactly what it sounds like: a series of quiet streets that wend along the east bank of the Willamette River, easing their way beneath stands of tall oak, fir, and pine. It’s three miles from our house down the river-forest road and back again. I choose this route when I need exercise or want to think. And, on days like today, I choose it to soak up the scenery. As I walked, I looked at the trees and the river and the lake. I listened to the birds. I watched the squirrels go about their squirrely business. I nodded [...]

I remember reading a study a little while ago. It ranked people’s happiness in comparison to other factors in their life. It found that once someone gets enough money for the bare minimum (food & shelter), there no correlation between happiness and amount of stuff or riches you have.

You know what one attribute every single “happy” person in the study shared? They were grateful people. 

Gratitude.

Just think about it, that’s all I’m saying.