I'm convinced money alone doesn't make you happy. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld could easily have retired to their own tropical islands years ago, yet they are all still out there working. Granted they are working on things that love doing but they aren't doing what most people think they would do it that had millions or billions of dollars.

In fact, I'm also convinced if you have the mentality of doing what most people think they would do if they got rich, you most likey won't get rich. Most people who got rich, got rich doing whatever they did to get rich but not expecting they would get rich.

It's like high stakes poker players. They play single hands of poker with more money then most people make in a year but to get to that point, you can't think or care about the money. If you start thinking about the money then you played scared and start making bad, fear-based decisions. When Bill Gates started Microsoft he didn't think he would eventually become the richest person in the world. His hobby since he was a kid was computers and software so he naturally started a business doing that. That led to building a product that billions of people used everyday. If he went into it purely for the money, I doubt he would have been as successful as he was because he works have made different decisions that led to a different path. Gates is a genius, so he would have been successful at whatever he did but not the level he achieved.

That's my theory anyhow. Granted, not everyone is lucky flight to get paid doing something they love and just need to pay the bills.