Having a Better Life

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(Draft) “The First Step on Having a Better Life” By: Marcellis Jewett People today are so tired and not happy with their life. They seem to just be bored all the time and they can’t seem to find a way to have a better life. They read articles on psychologists talking about steps on having a better life and they sometimes work but most of the time they don’t. Some people say that having money and material possessions will make you happy, but in the end people with that type of life style are unhappy than the people that don’t have that much money. So what is the “key steps” on having a better life? The first step might surprise you. When I was in high school, I took a class on personal finance. That class didn’t really talk about having a budget and saving money, rather it talked about having an enjoyable job. Most people today would tell you that they are unhappy with their job and they wish they would be in a job that they would like. So that personal finance class helped me to find out what type of job field I wanted to follow and to not end up in an unhappy one. So the first step on having a better life is to simply having a job that you love. The second step is fear. Why fear? Think of it this way, if you grew up with everything handed to you in life and you never got rejected you would have these high expectations on finding a job or having a family that is perfect and when you find out that it doesn’t work that way and you end up with a bad family life and a horrible job you wouldn’t know what to do. So having fear in your life will help you to have a better life, this second step might seem confusing but if you think about it, it actually makes sense. The third step is having family and friends. When growing up and going through school, my family and friends helped me a lot through challenges that I was facing and they are still helping
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