People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions - fear and greed. While fulfilling our greed we often opt for a job to earn plenty of money, which is eventually a short term solution to a long term problem. 

It's just like the picture of a donkey dragging a cart with its owner danglin...

You can do several things to enjoy your life day-to-day. Positive psychology techniques of gratitude is generally a short-term solution.

More importantly is to optimize your environment so you're more likely to be happy long term.

Long-term thinking is difficult to put in action because the long run is a collection of short runs that have to be handled, displayed, and used as information to gauge whether a long-term reward still exists.

Short-term thinking can be the only way you’ll survive long enough to experi...