Investing In Happiness
b'ARVE Error: Mode: lazyload not available (ARVE Pro not active?), switching to normal mode\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n{"@context":"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/","@id":"https:\\\\/\\\\/onproperty.com.au\\\\/investing-in-happiness\\\\/#arve-youtube-txwgyklbm7i659a0b2d7ac1c157445639","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\\\\/\\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\\/embed\\\\/TxWgyklbM7I?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0"}\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nSometimes it makes sense to invest in your happiness and relationships at the expense of your long term financial success. Me and my wife Kelly talk about how we have approached investing in happiness in our lives.\\nResources Related To This Episode\\nAll In The Van\\nTranscription:\\nSometimes when it comes to finances, it can be really easy to focus on your investments and focus on property because it all has a figure and you can see your net worth grow, but it can be a lot more difficult to spend money on your relationship and to value that relationship because it doesn\'t actually have any figures attached to it. So we wanted to create an episode today to talk about how we\'ve kind of approached investing in our relationship in the hopes that it\'ll help some people out there. So. Hey, my name is Ryan today. I have with me Kelly. Hi. Can we have, you don\'t know is my wife. We\'ve been married almost 10 years. Can you believe we\'ve got three kids as well? Yeah. And we\'ve got a pretty good marriage. We\'re pretty happy. Pretty good, pretty happy. We still enjoy each other\'s company so that\'s good. And we still laugh a lot. Um, but yeah, this idea kind of came about and then we were talking in the car about it and you came up with this idea that will you explain it to them?\\n\\nWell, what we were talking about how people put value on specific things in their lives and that I think a lot of the time your relationship kind of gets forgotten because it\'s not like natural for you to put like a monetary value in your relationship. Like we were talking about. We, we\'re talking with friends about how we haven\'t actually like invest in necessarily yet because for us we chose to invest into our marriage and our kids instead of that.\\n\\nAnd I always felt like I\'ve always had this thing. I don\'t know since before we even met that I was like, okay, if I get married one day, no matter how much success I have in my marriage falls apart, then no success is worth that. And so I don\'t know if that came about through watching my parents marriage or like what it was, but I just always felt like yeah, because you\'re the family unit and being happily married is more important to me than financial success. And so we\'ve always kind of made decisions based off that. But I feel like a lot of people don\'t because like you were saying, it\'s so easy and exciting to track your finances when you\'re saving towards a house or when you\'re investing in property. You can get your property revalued, you can see how much it\'s worth. My net worth is x amount. I\'ve got a million dollars in equity or whatever. You can\'t say\\n\\nthat you can\'t track the health of your relationships. Can you like there\'s no way to be like, yeah, you\'ve done so good this week.\\n\\nOur relationship is currently with $200,000 in. Previously it was only worth $100,000. You can\'t do that. And so. Well I guess why don\'t we talk about some of the decisions that we\'ve made that have been bad loan term financial decisions. Like if you just look at it from like a financial standpoint, we could have that into property or into something else. But we chose to instead invest into our relationship.\\n\\nWell is it. I think it\'s not, it\'s not just about our relationship, it\'s like investing into happiness. Okay. So for us, like our relationship is a big part of that happiness. So for us like we can easily kind of just say that, but I think the overarching umbrella that it kinda comes under is like your emotional happiness and wellbeing.'