everyone this is the millionaire hippies
podcast with your host boom shikha where
we chat about spirituality business and
health we all want to live self
actualizing fulfilling lives with joy
prosperity and gratitude let's go on
this beautiful journey together I missed
a couple of days because I was away I
was in chiang dao for a music festival
and a bunch of things happened i wasn't
able to take my laptop of me or do my
live videos i apologize for that but i'm
gonna keep on doing these for as long as
i can so i think that 30 days of live
video doesn't really apply
i wanted to speak to you guys about
something today that i've been thinking
about a lot as i've been developing my
stoic philosophy and really figuring out
what's important in my life
what do i want to do how do i want to
spend my time here what i want to
contribute etc and as watching this
youtube video and if you guys haven't
watched
absolutely recommended by louis c.k he's
a comedian and one of the most brilliant
comedians i know and he said something
like everything is amazing and nobody is
happy and it was really interesting when
I first heard that because it's so true
I mean I'm sitting here right now doing
a lot of video in Thailand to everyone
in the world from before to people all
over the world I mean they're people
from everywhere in the end this group
watching this probably and I'm sitting
on my chair here talking to you guys in
a manner where I could literally be
sitting in your living room chatting
with you and I'm able to talk to you
guys express my views even though I'm
not anyone really famous or I don't have
a lot of money ah like if you think
about it I don't have a lot of fame or
fortune but I can be kind of personal
sits down here and shares my thoughts
with you and this is something that is
just is amazing everything is astley
amazing and I'm living here in Chiang
Mai because I can I have an online
business because I
can because I have the access to
Internet I travel all over the place but
my I fly basically all over the world
and it's just I I mean I don't know not
to how to like there's so many different
things are absolutely amazing on this
planet right now and they're only going
to get better from here this is just the
beginning every single moment is just
the beginning because it's just going to
keep on getting better and better and
better and better and that's all it is
there is no going back right and if you
compare yourself to even 10 years ago
the things that you had 10 years ago you
don't have a lot you don't have a lot of
problems right now it not only is
technology much better the internet much
faster um more apps to do all the things
that you want to do travel cheaper food
is cheaper things that I mean there's so
many things happening is making life
more and more amazing and this is just
the beginning it's gonna get keep on
getting better and better and better
even if you think about the fact that um
that the world like global warming and
all that stuff like things are getting
worse that way there's still a lot of
good things in the world and everything
is getting better and better and better
but what happens and this is called
hedonic adaptation I guess I absolutely
recommend you guys read up on this
hedonic adaptation because this is one
of the myths of happiness is that we
think that we're going to get something
in our life like we're gonna stop making
$100,000 in our business or we're going
to make whatever might be you have to
certain goal in your head and you think
that once you receive that goal you're
gonna be happy forever obviously what
happens is that you receive that goal
you make it and you adapt to it men in a
few weeks few months few years and then
you are unhappy again or you're already
startups trying something else because
we're insatiable girls were more and
more and more and more so this is
hedonic adaptation it happens more with
positive things than with negative
things so we get adapted to positive
things faster than you do it negative
things so if you are keeping that in
mind then realize that no matter what
you achieve
even live you're going to get adapted to
it extremely easy and so that doesn't
matter anymore you have to realize that
happiness will then be dependent on not
what you achieve in life but where you
are right now
and realizing that everything is amazing
right now in this moment and you need to
be happy right now as it is if you start
moving in that direction River never
happy because all the striving for
something different like our kids
leaving the house or retirement or that
trip or whatever might be then we
realize that we're never going to be
happy because as soon as you achieve
that goal we're already striving for
something different and we're not gonna
be happy at that point either
that's hedonic adaptation and that's
really related to what Lewis CK says
that everything's amazing and nobody's
happy it's because we don't actually
appreciate what we have we're always
looking to what's gonna happen next how
much faster can my computer get how is
thinner can my phone get how much better
can my cell or network at how much
bigger can my house get how many more
clothes can I buy how many more places
can I visit and when you start thinking
only in terms of what more you can do
and what more you can have more what
more you can be then at that point
you're kind of basically hitting
yourself in the foot because you're
never going to be happy and that's one
of the myths have happen is everything
we're going to be happy once we reach us
this specific spot but that's not our
see the truth
so we kind of integrate that into your
life and realize that hedonic adaptation
is going to happen it happens to
everyone it's a fact of life then you
can start focusing on the process you
can focus on the journey you can focus
on each moment rather than thinking that
you have to strive for this end result
at which point you're not going to be
happy anyways right and that's one of
the things that a lot of happiness
researchers say is that you need to
focus on each moment focus on
experiences not and stuff focus on
what's happening right now rather than
reaching a particular goal and have
goals for sure but realize that once you
it doesn't necessarily mean that you're
gonna be happy at that point it doesn't
necessarily mean that that's gonna
completely change your life because as
we always think in our head we are not
good at visualizing this kind of stuff
so a lot of times we're like oh but if I
achieve that one goal then everything in
my life is gonna be perfect I'm gonna be
so happy everything's gonna be awesome
my life is going to come to fruition in
fact it's not going to be like that and
have to realize that hedonic adaptation
is going to hit you guys every single
time every single human goes to this so
what can we gather from this the main
thing that we can kind of get from it is
that gratitude gratitude is ultimate you
have to be grateful not only for what
you have and where you are but for
everything that you have that your
aunt's a citizen have that's called past
from the visualization realizing that
even a year ago you're better off than
you were a year ago even a month ago
you're better off than you were a month
ago every moment you're improving
so always realize that gratitude is the
key gratitude for what you have
gratitude for what you've done
grant it for the past grant you for the
future let's come in gratitude for the
present graduate gratitude gratitude
that is one of the main ways that we can
realize happiness in this moment right
now rather than always trying to move
towards some thing in the future which
is not going to give us happiness
enemies gratitude on a general daily
basis and how I do my gratitude is that
I journal it obviously in every moment
and I have a delicious cup of noodles or
if I have a great friend I'm sitting
with I'll be grateful in that moment
where I'm like I'm so thankful Thank You
universe for giving me what I have thank
you thank you thank you but also I spent
a couple of minutes every morning while
I'm journaling you know do my morning
pages writing down things I'm grateful
for basically thanking the universe for
this amazing life that I have thanking
the universe for all that I have
accomplished thanking the universe for
the person that I am thanking the
universe for my family my friends my
support systems in the universe for my
body thanking the universe
from my senses my eyesight my touch
think of the universe for my strong body
think of the universe for the fact that
I have this business opportunity to work
on a business online opportunity to
travel thanking the universe for the
person that I've become and the person
I'm going to become thank the universe
for the fact that I was able to move out
of India and to all these amazing
different countries and live in Canada
earn Canadian dollars because without it
I wouldn't be able to live this life I
lead thanking the universe with the fact
that I'm in Chiangmai right now and
living this amazing ideal life of mine
thing in the universe for the fact that
it's so cheap here that I can live a
really really great life and hope to be
back to the society here by volunteering
and donating thanking the universe for
all the different people that come into
my life all the experiences that I've
gathered all the support and one thing
in the universe for anything and
everything that I have everything
anything that I am everything anything
that I've been able to do that I'm going
to do so in general there's a lot of
gratitude in me and I read Baba's
gratitude every single morning I
experienced this gratitude every single
morning so I start off the day with a
sense of Thank You universe for
everything I have
anything that happens in that day
anything more that happens is just gravy
on go I don't know how easy just gravy
in general it's just icing on the cake
because I already live an absolutely
amazing life anything more that happens
just awesome right so I want you guys to
really really think about hedonic
adaptation Google that think about it
watch that video by you lose CK
everything's amazing and nobody's happy
because it really puts things into
perspective and he's brilliant
and lastly make gratitude just a normal
part of your life because without
gratitude you're not going to be happy
with this present moment or you're
always gonna be striving and basically
we're just going to be chasing after
happiness whereas happiness is a choice
you can be happy right now just decide
to be happy no matter what is going on
in our life I can tell myself right now
no matter what is going on in my life I
am happy
I am happy right now and I am making
this choice to be happy no matter if
everything is in my necks to accomplish
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