Ryan Daniel Moran (speaking in a short YouTube #shorts clip produced by Capitalism.com) argues that conventional advice separates making money and achieving happiness into sequential goals. He observes that while earning money first makes sense in extreme scarcity, most people unnecessarily postpone happiness; instead he suggests making being happier and richer simultaneously the central focus.
There's plenty of advice about how to make more money, and there is plenty of content out there about how to be happier, how to live a better life. But it's rare that a lesson does both. For most, it's first I will make the money, then I will live a better life. And to some extent, there's truth to that. When you aren't sure where your next meal is going to come from, pursuing money is a good idea. But for for the most part, we tend to put happiness or money as a later thing while we work on just one of those two things. If you can be happier and richer at the same time, wouldn't you make that the centerpiece of your focus.
