What’s the most valuable thing in your life—and could it be something money can’t buy? We live in a culture that tells us money is the ultimate scorecard—more equals better. But deep down, we’ve all seen the limits of wealth.

For most people, happiness is defined emotionally. It is equated with laughter, optimism, security, well-being, and the like. The trouble with those definitions is that they are based on circumstances that can easily change. Some circumstances make us happy, and others make us unhappy. To be consistently happy, we need a definition that is not subject to circumstances.

Have you ever felt like life—or the stock market—is cutting away at everything you’ve built?