Relationships matter more than money

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗳𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 — 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆, 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗲, 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲, 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗲𝘁𝗰. — 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗼 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀.

“Good relationships are significant enough that if we had to take all eighty-four years of the Harvard Study and boil it down to 𝒂 𝒔𝙞𝒏𝙜𝒍𝙚 𝙥𝒓𝙞𝒏𝙘𝒊𝙥𝒍𝙚 𝙛𝒐𝙧 𝙡𝒊𝙫𝒊𝙣𝒈, one life investment that is supported by similar findings across a wide variety of other studies, it would be this: 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙪𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙧. 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙙.” – The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz

By far the biggest determinant of our happiness is our relationships with other people — friends, family & co-workers.

Still, many people choose to believe that material wealth is the stepping stone towards happiness – it is not!


Well, happiness is a complicated topic but one culprit is this one:

Money has a value you can attach to it. It’s impossible to quantify the value of strong relationships in your life.

And so we keep on accumulating more of what we can measure.

Often driven by that mantra ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ (I don’t even know who they are … incidentally, they even might be heavily indebted & unhappy behind the façade they present to us).


𝗜𝘁 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 (= 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁?) 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗷𝗼𝗯, 𝘀𝗼 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀-𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲.

Does anyone else see any irony in this?

So I asked myself how much time I spend on accumulating more money & how much time on building stronger relationships.

Hmm. 🤔🤔🤔

High time to fix that ratio …

What do you say? Do relationships matter more than money to you?