While growing up in a poor family, I developed a mindset that happiness was connected with a nice home, a pleasant home environment, being like everyone else; or in a nutshell, being different than the way I was.
Consequently, I spent much of my adult life measuring myself by others and by what they looked like, what they had, or what they did. My house needed to be as clean as everyone else's seemed to be, for surely I was the only one who didn't keep my house spotless and shiny all the time. I wasn't comfortable having guests in my home for this reason.
One day while living in a nice home that we had remodeled, I realized that I wasn't any happier there than I'd been while living in other run-down houses!
That realization started the removal of ideas that happiness consisted of having nice things, plenty of money and no problems. This new perspective has helped me learn to be content and happy in cricumstances less than ideal!
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