Happiness

I titled this week's blog post, "Happiness" this week because that's what I feel like the theme was for this week. Happiness is something that we as a people strive for, year for. We all want it. It's that person that we all want to be best friends with. Sometimes we find it the wrong way. We look for it in the wrong places. With the wrong people and sometimes we never really find what we were looking for. We all want to be happy but is happiness? What is TRUE happiness and why does it sometimes feel like it's so far out of reach? 

The mini cases that we worked on this week got me to thinking about this topic more. I wrote that family always comes first. No matter what. The mini cases were really good for me to read yesterday. For the past little bit, I have witnessed this very same thing happening to someone who I know. It is heart breaking to see them time and time again choose something or someone over their own family. It makes me sad to watch this happen and make me wonder what I could do to help? I think that the best thing that we can do is decided how we want to react and how we want to live our lives. 

• What is your attitude toward money?

It is really a love/hate relationship with money. Obviously, we need it to survive and for the fundamentals but it can become such a greedy, selfish, evil thing if we allow it to grow into that way. 

• How can your view of money affect the way you live?

I think that it could affect a lot about the way that you live. We do need money to survive but we need to filter what we need and what we just want. Depending on how much money we have/make, it could determine our attitude towards life and others. Money can cause a lot of stress, anxiety and worry. It can ruin relationships and cause problems. 

• What rules are recommended for prospering?

Rule 1. Seek the Lord and have hope in him
Rule 2. Keep the commandments, that includes the temporal ones, tithing and fast offerings.
Rule 3. Think about money and plan how you can become self-reliant.
Rule 4. Take advantage of chances for learning so you will not be ignorant of these matters. Education, as President Hinckley has taught us, is the Key to Opportunity.
Rule 5. Learn the laws upon which the blessings of wealth are predicated.
Rule 6. Do not send away the naked, the hungry, the thirsty or the sick or those who are held captive.