 I really just want to start this video and see if we could take a second to Appreciate and be grateful for how great life is or specifically our lives because I live my life I can only talk about my own life Because honestly we say this all the time meaner asses are so so grateful stevie Hey guys, I love this guy. You guys talking about happy happy. We're not happy here. His tail is always wagging But we do often talk about just how amazing our lives are and It transcends in the way we act so because our lives are so amazing We're so happy all the time so positive all the time, but I just realized people have amazing lives But they just be negative and shitty. So that's not the reason we're happy It's because of our mindsets. So then we create these great lives the topic of this video was Partly on what I started with does money make you happy now? That's what we're gonna talk about. There's a lot to say on this topic But I also wanted to just talk about how fucking epic our lives have become now Because it's honestly really fucking crazy for example. Well, we just had our ads made we've been talking about this I'm just gonna play the ad real quick To this ad we are the And in the next 30 seconds, we're about to show you why we're sitting here dressed as unicorns singing to you when we have No idea what we're doing Our life literally feels like a movie We travel the world exploring the craziest places With the most amazing people Eating the best food And it's not because we're special or we were born with rich parents It's because we made the decision to not be average. So my name is Rasmus Mickelson My name is Christian Mickelson and we are the Mickelson twins We're 23-year-old college dropouts and since then we've gone on to build multiple six-figure businesses But it's not always been this way two years ago before we ever discover where online business was We were living at home with our parents back in New Jersey taking college classes and working jobs delivering Chinese food And just accepting the path that had been laid out for us in life And if there's one thing we've learned on our journey so far It's that these people you see on the internet living these dope-ass lives They didn't just accept the path they were given they had to go against what everyone else was doing Everything they were being told in college by their parents and by everyone else around them. So that's what we did We dropped out and worked our asses off to prove that there's much more to life than going to college Working a nine-to-five job that you hate for 40 years So instead we'll be spending our next 40 years doing what we love and we're here to show you Exactly how you can do the same thing. So our mission is to show people what's possible and provide the guidance You need to achieve the life of your dreams And if you want to join us and learn exactly how to do that then subscribe to your channel somewhere here on this page And share this video with your friends your family anyway You think that could benefit from this and we'll see you guys on our channel All right, so that's the ad that we've been working on Creating over the last few weeks and it's to grow our YouTube channel, right? But I just want to say that that video it looks like It looks like a movie first of all. It looks like a fucking movie. It looks like holy shit These guys are trying to paint a picture. That's not real. They're just trying to make their lives look epic They're trying to whatever they're just trying to sell themselves by creating this fucking sick video montage and then Sell them how to do that. Basically, but everything in that video all the footage is obviously real Everything we say is so real. The transformation is so real and like I feel like this video actually It actually depicts how I actually feel. Yeah, my life actually feels that way Like a movie so yeah that ad what we just wanted to say on that is there is nothing nothing fake about it It's all so fucking real. It's all so real. Yeah, like the transformation all the voiceover All the clips how I watch them just like yes That's what my life has been these past two years since we got started online business because it's been fucking insane It's really funny. I know that when we start playing this everywhere people are totally gonna We're gonna get so much hate. I mean it's so much hate and like doesn't bother me I just I'm ready for it. I know it. It is what it is. Yeah, you can't prevent. No, you can't we have Christian Yeah, so but on that note like yeah, it definitely will get hate But something both of us very good at is not letting anything like that ever get to us like it genuinely Never bothers me it never takes up any real estate in my head And it's simply because my life is so amazing and I'm so happy and positive There's that and there's also this there's these two of the reasons then there's we've had each other to the committees Just otherwise and then there's the big one that I know the shit. They're saying is that true exactly It's not true. That's a it's just hate because they They feel it feels our way about themselves. Yeah, so I don't feel any negative way on myself exactly It's just self-reflection. So but should we get to the topic of the video? Yeah, so this all does come full circle Yeah, does money actually make you happy? Oh, yeah, another thing another thing I want to say about the the fake and real Ad thing like it looks like oh, we're epic We're falling out a lot of people they could make something like this, but they're actually broken struggling. We are not broke at all We're not struggling at all finances are great. No, we're near where I want to be so but I know what's like to be Financially comfortable. So that's how that's why we can talk on this and because of that life is good But we'll get into that that's part of answering the question does Money actually make you happy we talk about this, but I know how you feel about it Not exactly. Yeah, so let's just start right off the bat. Yes. No No, directly money does not make you happy No, not directly, but then there's the other side of the coin where the answer is yes Money does make you happy has a massive correlation a mass Yeah, is it the money that makes you happy? No, is there a very strong correlation? Between money and happiness, but then there's a person where no matter how much money they have money does not make you happy if you are shitty Negative pessimistic and use if you're pessimistic optimistic versus pessimistic if you're pessimistic all the time And you make a lot of money you will not be more happy You'll just not have those same problems you had about having to eat ramen instead. You keep steak Like you're still be pessimistic and depressed and sad and pissed off and I want to say this about myself so we've told a lot about our story and what our life used to be like in our past and I did not like my life, but I was never I was never depressed. Yeah, and we never never like Unhappy, I was very not satisfied and I wasn't liking my day-to-day, but was I was never truly unhappy the thing is and look here's something it's it's really weird because When back when I was going to college and had a job whatever everything that you would think about what I hate I say now I hate that sort of life, and I was living that life I still remember telling myself I still don't tell myself like even because even though my life is not lit I Still enjoy my life, and now it's just me But I think there's one thing that contributes to that Because that was just when we started getting into archmage from online business And it was the hope that I had for the future like life is this way right now And it's not dope, but I hope that it will be super epic and just the thought of oh, yeah Makes you just really happy and makes you excited. I want to wake up in the morning So actually when you look back we have always been happy. Yeah always been happy, but not satisfied So that's just that's just our default. We just are those people. We are very very Unusually positive people. So is that a way are you born that way? Are you raised that way? I don't know so like for example both of us. I don't know both of us We have this uncanny ability to find the positive in everything Anything bad like I'll find the positive and like that's just the way I am I enjoy being that way. I think that plays a big role in why I'm so happy But does the money make you happy the answer is yes and no it depends on the person depends on the person. That's Already as like positive thinking people. It just made it way more sicker. It just made it way extrapolated it makes sense it Exponentiated it Exponentiated it so right now from before and after I am way way happier, but it's not because yeah Direct directly because of money. It's more like having money sitting in your bank account. It releases Stress it gets rigid it gets rid of it and it's just like oh I don't have to worry about that and then when we go out to eat like I literally I don't look at prices I just fucking what's the price? I put it down and it just feels good I don't have to worry about oh can I get a drink today or should I just drink water when it comes to money There's a certain point where it's really fucking stressful and we don't have much enough money You're just like always stressed, but when you get beyond that I think that's the biggest difference in your happiness level Mm-hmm when you get beyond the point We don't have to stress about money because I remember we were there at least I was there a few months ago, right? And it's just a constant pressure on your fucking shoulders like also Kind of with the taxes thing. We didn't know how much we owe. I was really stressful. Yeah, that was stressful Yeah, because we had made all this money, but we hadn't paid taxes on any of it And we had spent quite a lot. I feel like fuck. Did we spend everything? Do we owe like $20,000? You know and no more. I thought it was more 30,000 like turns out a lot short and no Bank counts as fat as ever, but yeah, that was very very stressful. Even though we were living here I hate I hate to be the guy that's just like fucking flexing saying my life is fucking awesome But I'm sorry. I'm just being truthful like it's so Truthful what I'm saying. I'm not trying to pretend anything because remember We also made a video like a month and a half ago talking about like how we're fucking up like that's just the truth Yeah, you know, yeah, we're just speaking the truth. Oh, yeah, you go back and watch that video It was basically a very frustrated just shitting on ourselves Basically telling us that you know, we're fucking off I will never pretend that my life is a certain way when it's not does the money make you happy It's obviously not the money directly. I've said that it's the freedom that it creates for example I want to bring an example So my girlfriend's birthday is in a few days and she loves Ed Sheeran So just because I have some money sitting my bank account I can just buy Ed Sheeran tickets and then there's some other place in Indonesia. So we just fly there I hope she doesn't hear this fly there. I was looking out for Ed Sheeran concert fly back the same day She becomes so happy like she wants to go to this so badly She's looking at it every day like she loves Ed Sheeran and if you didn't have money you couldn't do that It's gonna be this amazing experience that we get to experience together You know what I love spending money on now or like once I have more what I want to spend it on Right in the end it comes back to make yourself happy and people say like Philanthropy and giving to charity is like the most selfish thing you can do because you give so much other people And it just makes yourself feel so good Like oh, I just did a lot of people won't you said it you said that so casually and so nonchalantly People will not understand what you said Because you said some people say the most selfish thing you can do is be a philanthropist. Yeah Yeah, I know that's mind-blowing to people Oh, it's because a lot of people don't a lot of people don't understand perspective Yeah, like there's only one way to look at something you can look at philanthropy is the most selfish thing you can do Yeah, because it's the most satisfying thing for yourself Yeah, it feels so good to help other people. That's why you do it So it makes you selfish now you're not actually selfish because of it But it's a perspective that you could take on it But that's sort of what I was going on and like I like to pay my money on other people Mm-hmm making other people happy and showing them like mm-hmm how sick life can be or whatever Mm-hmm, and then that just makes me feel really good That brings me more happiness than that the money directly could give me in a Lamborghini or whatever. Yeah, right? So like on our day-to-day lives. We honestly do not spend a lot of money So not living here for a month. No more than 3k a month now like food we eat out twice a day Zero budget for food. I just fucking I Don't I do not care like that that's one the best thing ever this place is like 12 1300 a month It's worth each of us including electricity So that's not much and then yeah around 3k the things I'll always spend money on is food and my home because I Spend most of my time in my home. Yeah more from home So those two things and I have a very large budget on so a lot of other things I don't need it so this also proves you could ball the fuck out on 3k a month Okay, but we do spend a shitload of money. Yeah, we spend a shitload of money on the business on the business So that's what we spend all our money on investing in books We'll like casually do eight to ten thousand dollar book worth We want to do a new one real soon, but what we're really gonna spend so much money on is these fucking ads Add you just saw in this video so our budget is ten thousand dollars a month That's our starting budget. That's our budget But in reality there is no budget like it's literally spend as much on these ads as we possibly can So we literally have like 50k in the bank ready for just these ads to blow up Nicholson twins Whatever, but in reality there isn't a budget because every dollar that we spend on this is gonna make at least ten back At least ten back And we can make another video explaining why that's the case because we're not even selling anything It's just an ad to go to our YouTube channel. That's all it is And if I was there we indirectly sell yeah our YouTube channel is heavily monetized not through ads or anything And we don't even sell anything directly. We don't push shit We just say we have things and if you want it you can get it So we just know every dollar we spend it's gonna make us a lot more money back. I was the one get off topic Two things I still want to cover about that does money make you happy my perspective does money make you happy Final answer depends on the person well, okay That's your answer. My answer is if you are a positive already happy person then yes It will make you much happier much happier, but you already happy to an extent in the first place But it makes you way it makes you way happy. It makes you euphorically. Yeah, and if you are a native pessimistic person I think it will it will make you happier But it will not make you happy if you aren't down the first place You need to do some self-reflection enjoy life more, but will not make you happy It won't give you that fucking chemicals in your brain because it's a real chemical thing happiness, right? We're you need to do some mindset transformation stuff Yeah, like so for these negative pessimistic depressed people it might I don't know because I don't have any experience with this I've never been depressed in my life. It might make it worse. It just might I don't know for some people it probably will because when you have more money Your problems become bigger problems, but they're better problems again We have not gotten to that point like we're financially free But we don't have a lot of money like that and like just one percent of where we want to be in the grand scheme of things The other point that I want to say and this is huge and you'll This could go on forever to talk about this. Okay, so here's something that I learned in my life My main motivation was to make a lot of money Because that will make me happier and it has and like it still is that way to an extent But a few months ago. I got my first girlfriend, right? Her name is Laura and just she has changed my perspective on happiness and Money in the sense that for now happiness will not come from being them as successful as I can be Right. I've learned that I can make much less money than I thought and then just be happy with The people around me. Yeah, that is the relationships you have in your life That make you happier than anything more than money is the relationships So the question was does money make you happy? But then the question what makes you what makes people the most happen in the world? I believe I feel confident that the answer to this is the people around you the connection the human connections that you have The relationships you have. Yeah, that's like an innate thing that humans need And I think that is what makes people the happiest is so if you're surrounded by shady people in a shooting environment You will hate your life and be depressed But if like you're surrounded by amazing people positive fun, just incredible giving people I don't think I think you could be living in like a straw hut. You couldn't help but still enjoy it But think about why it is that you want to have a lot of money Okay, so I want to have a lot of money so that I can buy Lamborghini I want to have a Lamborghini so that I can look a certain way and Impress other people and attract other people into my life. The relationships is like the core motivation behind anything you do. Yeah. Yeah exactly you make you want to press others you want to show others Yes, if you know how to do other people if you're on a deserted island Maybe it'll be cool to have a Lamborghini for one day if you're the only person on that island Yeah, you won't give one shit about that Lamborghini after the first day You will not drive it around it won't fucking matter at all. It's nothing to do with you It's not the car so the camera just overheated. I'm gonna try and continue where we left off I was talking about the car and that it's not the car itself that makes you happy The motivation of getting that car is to attract other people into your life The main motivator of basically anything you do in your life is to build a relationship with other people. Yes What? Wow Oh that thing has a snuffed up tail. Okay, sorry about that. It's all right So a few things a few things we wanted to end on before we end this video. Steve! Steve! All right, now now this is getting all over the place. Yep. Oh, he's gonna kill that cat. He's gonna eat it. Oh one last point that I want to make about the if you're happy We'll make it happier if not happy won't even make you happy, right? We've talked a lot about a guy named Montagie and he has a video talking about this subject, right? And he says this that his whole life He has never really been truly happy and he totally thought that like once I make more money and millions of dollars I'm gonna be so happy like that will solve all my problems So he was making money and then he bought expensive jewelry He bought all this cool shit and like it wasn't making him happier He's like what the fuck and then in the end he had like one ultimate goal Which was I I have my dream apartment in the center of London And if this place does not make me happy nothing in the world wherever make me happy This was his dream and it turns out when he did he did eventually get this apartment. He moved in It was fucking epic for the first few days first week And then it wore off and he was exactly back feeling the way he felt before He said that was the most painful experience he'd ever gone through in his life Because he just made him realize that money is not going to solve the problems he has with you know The way he feels and he's mine and stuff like that I think that's the perfect example to show that money will not make you happy if You're not right up here, right exactly. It all comes back to your mindset, right? Yeah, anything else you wanted to say? Yes, oh last thing okay, if there's one thing if you could break down to one thing that actually makes you happy Okay, tell them the secret right if you really want to be happy. Okay. I'm gonna show you because it's a thing We have here. Okay If you really want to be happy Okay Get your get your toenails done. Oh my god. This was the most life-changing thing I've ever done the way you feel golden sparkly toenails I feel like I just feel like the fucking came out. I walk around my chest out finally feel glamorous Like I feel I finally look the way I feel yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's insane Yeah, the goal with our channel is simply to help make you and everyone else as happy as possible when you boil it down That's what it comes down to yeah, but in honor of sparkly toenails drop that drop that the finger paint Emoji Yes, but that's in this video. This was a long when you watch the end fuck. Yeah, I love you You're awesome. And yeah, I have one more thing to say I hope this video will motivate you to Take action and like build your online business and then live a life so into what we have because it is as amazing as it Looks yes, it's absolutely insane. Yes, and this shit's real. There's nothing to think about it. Goodbye