The amount of people that bring live tigers into their flamboyant lifestyles never ceases to make me cringe! Dave actually sees this quite often at some of the events he does. Whenever he tells me about it, I secretly hope that one day the said tiger or lion would just attack one of those idiots, lol (oops... did I say that out loud?)

I'll be the first to admit that living a life in which you're always wondering how you're going to pay the next bill, and how you're going to buy food next week, is extremely stressful. I've done that. I've been homeless.

A humbling lesson it is. I have not been homeless, but I have lost everything and really gives you a perspective wake up call.

and then... pretty much like you have just said - on the flip side of that coin, I have also been very financially successful and that came with such enormous amounts of stress that it very nearly destroyed me.

I sat once with my dad and my eldest brother (this was at the time that I was under an enormous amount of pressure from my business) and I said, I would rather be homeless than carry on living with this kind of stress. No doubt I would not have enjoyed that at all either.

I think half of our problem as humans is that we are just never satisfied with what and where we are. We are not living in the now, nor are we more intentional about actually acknowledging how much we really have to be grateful for... despite the fact that not everything in our lives is perfect.

Money does not buy happiness, but it does afford options. That is pretty much how I see it these days.

the mansion or a late model luxury car can exciting and happy making for a short while, but then you quickly grow to take it for granted

Bingo! Everything that was new and shiny at some point becomes "old news" and "just another thing" - probably that you are still paying for, lol.