Always see clearly what you want.

And never forget being grateful for what you have.

I don’t know if you are like me.

I am ambitious – I have a knack for seeing vividly in my mind’s eye exactly that which I want in real ways that keep me motivated.

What I work on every day is to be as good at capturing a moment of gratitude for something that others might miss that reminds me how lucky I am to be alive.

As I have written previously, surveys show that the average couple needs $70,000 a year in the U.S. to be happy.

Anything less – they report less happiness corresponding with how much less they earn.

But curiously, anything more and they are not any happier.  Not even people who make millions of dollars.

$70,000 is the sweet spot.

This is significant because we spend a lifetime yearning to earn when we should also be yearning to learn the relationship between what we want and what we already are fortunate enough to have.