Ex-millionaire and completely happy

Etre Heureux & How to be Happy

Here is the true story of a millionnaire, who gave up everything to live in the nature
An incredible life choice that gives him happiness
Only one year ago he was still living in his luxury house in Austri
A vast garage housed his limousine, five aircraft were available.
Aged 48, Mr Rabad was a rich man, envied but not happy
Now he's coping with only 1300 dollars a month, in a small 20m2 chalet, with zero comfort, and he says that he's much more happy than he was before
"If you see the pics taken of me a year ago in front of my cottage, I looked ten years older, tired and sad".
I had a shift when I made a trip to South America that opened my eyes:
"I just saw that the people who live there are poor but much happier than western people. Media and advertising tell us what it is that we should buy, this clothe or this new car to be happy, but people who own it don't seem happier at all"
In January 2010, the businessman, who made his fortune in decorative accessories, took an incredible decision: he decided to part with all his possessions and retire to a mountain chalet.
An idyllic life without physical possession
To part from his magnificent villa, that was made with wood and glass in the luxuriouse Tyrolean Valley, Rabad made an unique choice to sell it.
Instead of offering it on the market, he organizes a lottery.
22,000 people purchase a ticket at 99 euros in the hope of winning the home, his garden, spa and beach volleyball. It's a Bavarian who wins the jackpot. The 2.2 million collected will join the fortune earned through the sale of its business and assets in a charitable fund commited to micro-credit in developing countries.
So this year the ex-millionnaire who was divorced from his wife in 2003 after 17 years of marriage, made his fantasy coming true: residing in a small wooden chalet in the mountains
His life now seems idyllic.
"In the morning I wake up when my body wakes up. Then I ask myself what I desire to do. Sometimes I write for ten hours straight, sometimes I go just to walk in the mountains."
Now that he is poor, relationships with individuals are easier:"Before the people I met thought I was a piggy bank. Now, when someone is curious about me, it's not due to money, the contact is incredibly easier. "
He did'nt take anything from his previous house and life.
Does he have regrets? Yes, time. For 20 years he feels as though he had a life that wasn't made for himIn his new fulfillment he wouldn't change anything:
"The material things are nothing. I am happier now, because I live at last as I always had to live. "

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better or happier

This quote from Mother Teresa appears almost incongruous in our modern world, where almost everyone is running after something

Especially in huge cities: individuals cross each other in total indifference, nobody cares about anybody and beggars trigger more annoyance than kindness.

Yet one of the important factors to fulfillment is to halt just 5 minutes and think what you can do to help somehow another human being, who was certainly less lucky than us.

I am on Boracay island, where regional people don't want to get taned, because poor people do since they stay all day in the sun (note the paradox of the situation, western people want to get taned because only people who have the chance to go on sunny holidays get taned)

Many people would like to be given more love, affection and caring...
But most people don't give anything at all unless they are given first
If everyone gives consideration and caring, everybody will receive
But as almost nobody gives, then most people don't obtain anything
That's why in our contemporary world, even though we have all materialistic wealth, we lack of love and caring.
So the key thing to do is to give first, and whenever you can, just grab the opportunity to give.
Somehow it will spread around you.

On the picture above you can see two young children who were begging.
I was ordering a delicious Mango Fruit Shake, and rather than being indifferent, I was wondering how to give these two children some good time...
I offered them a Mango Fruit Shake, and you can watch how much pleasure they had:
1. by consciously savor the Fruit Shake
2. by unconsciously see a stranger who gave them attention and kindness
3. share this delicious moment together
For me, Life contented me in three ways:
1. Seing their huge smiles was awesome
2. I felt joyful with my gesture, and see the wonderful results on them
3. This simple action gives me the opportunity to like myself even more, which also makes it possible for others to love me

In this Christmas time, here's what you can do and it will give you great pleasure:
Gather all clothes you no longer use, and bring them back to life, by giving them to an community for poor people in your neighborhood.
This simple gesture will give you much more fulfillment, love and connection to life than all the presents you will receive for Christmas...

To get more tips on how to be happy or etre heureux, visit our blog www.howtobehappy.fr

How to be Happy

If you want to be happy, you can try to do it by yourself, and do what you always did

But if you feel that you need some help and guidance, then you should read these blogs, they will give you some great guidance:
www.howtobehappy.fr
www.etreheureux.fr