Be your own financial superhero by setting goals and striving for wealth -- whatever that means to you.
Some data has suggested money itself doesn't lead to dissatisfaction -- instead, it's the ceaseless striving for wealth and material possessions that may lead to unhappiness.
In his lyrics, Harrison sings of the falsehood of striving for wealth or power in the material world and advocates a direct relationship with one's deity as a genuine life goal.
When I speak to graduates, I tell them that it's human nature to strive for status, wealth, possessions, recognition, but the more you succeed, the more you'll come to realize there's more to life than that, and nothing matches serving a cause larger than one's self-interest.
In adult life, this group includes CEO's and celebrities, but also ordinary people who strive for prestige, wealth and beauty.
Such empty fears and desires, based on what Epicurus calls kenodoxia or empty belief, are themselves the main source of perturbation and pain in civilized life, where more elementary dangers have been brought under control, since they are the reason why people are driven to strive for limitless wealth and power, subjecting themselves to the very dangers they imagine they are avoiding.
We all strive, after all, for wealth and happiness do we not?
A rich man's striving for greater wealth, Lewis contended, was not greed but pride.
It seems that it may not be the money itself that leads to dissatisfaction, but rather, the continual striving for greater wealth and more possessions that is linked to unhappiness.
