This has often been a controversial topic when I have bought it up on other social media forums. I don’t completely understand why, but I do have a bit of an inkling..

Money doesn’t buy happiness, money buys freedom. Freedom buys happiness.

Why we’re all so afraid to admit out loud that we would love an extra few hundred dollars a week to be able to go out f lunch with a girlfriend or save up and go and travel our countries or the world is beyond me. Society has trained us into believing that working hard for financial freedom is a negative way of being.

I own a Range Rover, it was my dream car. I absolutely adore it too, it brings me so much joy and happiness every time I get in it. I am so proud of myself for working as hard as I did and I am reminded of my efforts and hard work, every single day.

Now a lot of people have an issue with a random chick in her twenties buying herself a Ranger Rover. And not that it’s any of your business, but the reason I did was because I almost died the year before and I decided I didn’t want to wait until I was forty five to have the car of my dreams, Life is short and I want to enjoy it now. Not in retirement.

Now you don’t have to want a Range Rover. You could want to travel. But it takes cash flow to get you there and if you are not clear on exactly what it is you want.. You’re not going to know how much money you need to get there and it is unlikely it will ever happen.

I don’t need to be a billionaire. I don’t want to have so much money that I charter private jets to get around.. But I do like hand bags, I LOVE shoes and I enjoy amazing food and great cocktails. Our lifestyle is not exorbitant, but staying on Hamilton Island for five days, eating out at five star restaurants every night and doing unlimited snorkelling tours because your fiancé was apparently a seal in another life isn’t free.

So I want to say it again, it is okay to chase more money.

If anyone ever says to you ‘Money doesn’t buy you happiness” they are wrong. More money than you need to live the life you want doesn’t buy you happiness.

There is a really interesting concept I read about a while ago which argues that to be genuinely happy, there are certain fundamental requirements as human beings and if you don’t have them, happiness is simply not possible.

For humans to be happy, we need certainty that we will have unlimited access to food, shelter, health care and enjoyment.

In todays society, all of those things cost money. In your world, those things may only cost you $50,000 a year and if you make $75,000 per year, you’re in surplus therefore you have certainty that you will have unlimited access to the things you need.

If those things cost you $500,000 thousand a year and you make $250,000, you’re in deficit and happiness is unachievable. I know people who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and still cannot afford a mortgage or a holiday because they spend in excess. This is why we believe money does not buy happiness.

I also know people who earn $80,000 a year and their cost of living is $70,000 per year and they are the most relaxed and enjoyable people to be around. This is also why we believe money does not buy happiness.

You simply need to work out your means and live below them. If you exceed your means you need to either need to make some lifestyle changes and risk loosing the enjoyment in your life, or you need to chase, more, money. Regardless of whether society tells you its selfish to do so.

So in short, todays unsolicited advice is once again to live your best life irrespective of what they say and if you need a hype girl to pump up your tyres when you’re feeling deflated, find me on social media. I will be there for you every single step of the way.

Lots of money manifestations energy to anyone who reads this because y’all are my favourite people.

Sarah x