“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
I often talk about saving for retirement. Taking advantage of the 401k program to get the company match. Taking advantage of the match = giving yourself a raise. Not taking advantage = saying, “nah, I don’t need an extra 4%, my future is SOLID.” My point when talking about saving for retirement is that you have to produce money and set it aside if you expect to be able to consume it at a future time. If don’t right that 5%-10% can amount to a very comfortable retirement.
That same concept applies to happiness yet people often fail to accept it. If you walk around all day every day putting out negativity, talking about people or being grouchy at some point that will begin to accumulate into a wealth of negativity. Everyone has a friend or family member like that. Why not produce happiness little by little, day by day. Over time that too will accumulate.
Produce - 1. make or manufacture from components or raw materials.
2. cause (a particular result or situation) to happen or come into existence.
You have the raw materials to manufacture happiness around you. Each one of us can make a conscious decision to produce positive things. We all have these abilities naturally. We can be nice, smile, donate, help, volunteer, be there for friends and family. You can spend your entire day producing happiness.
Consume - 1. To destroy or expend by use.
2. to use up (eat, devour, ingest, swallow, gobble up, feast on)
You also have the raw materials to destroy happiness. To use up all the happiness that is around you which will impact those around you.
When speaking about money, if you consume more than you produce you go into debt. That debt almost always comes with the extra expense of interest, compounding over time that interest costs people a lot more money than they can afford. If you make your money work for you have a nest egg of savings. When you have a bad month you can just dip into your savings. In my opinion happiness works the same. If you are known for negativity and you just start being nice people won’t necessarily trust that right away, you have taken so much that you still have to pay off your negativity interest. Some of us may have a lot of interest to pay off. Start producing today and get yourself out of happiness debt!
I often talk about saving for retirement. Taking advantage of the 401k program to get the company match. Taking advantage of the match = giving yourself a raise. Not taking advantage = saying, “nah, I don’t need an extra 4%, my future is SOLID.” My point when talking about saving for retirement is that you have to produce money and set it aside if you expect to be able to consume it at a future time. If don’t right that 5%-10% can amount to a very comfortable retirement.
That same concept applies to happiness yet people often fail to accept it. If you walk around all day every day putting out negativity, talking about people or being grouchy at some point that will begin to accumulate into a wealth of negativity. Everyone has a friend or family member like that. Why not produce happiness little by little, day by day. Over time that too will accumulate.
Produce - 1. make or manufacture from components or raw materials.
2. cause (a particular result or situation) to happen or come into existence.
You have the raw materials to manufacture happiness around you. Each one of us can make a conscious decision to produce positive things. We all have these abilities naturally. We can be nice, smile, donate, help, volunteer, be there for friends and family. You can spend your entire day producing happiness.
Consume - 1. To destroy or expend by use.
2. to use up (eat, devour, ingest, swallow, gobble up, feast on)
You also have the raw materials to destroy happiness. To use up all the happiness that is around you which will impact those around you.
When speaking about money, if you consume more than you produce you go into debt. That debt almost always comes with the extra expense of interest, compounding over time that interest costs people a lot more money than they can afford. If you make your money work for you have a nest egg of savings. When you have a bad month you can just dip into your savings. In my opinion happiness works the same. If you are known for negativity and you just start being nice people won’t necessarily trust that right away, you have taken so much that you still have to pay off your negativity interest. Some of us may have a lot of interest to pay off. Start producing today and get yourself out of happiness debt!
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