Let’s assume for a moment that you’ve managed to achieve an exemplary financial hat trick in that:

You’ve learned to budget and spend sensibly. You have no debts, other than your mortgage. You have savings for those rainy days.

In short, you’re on top of your finances. This is obviously a commendable state of affairs. But here’s the crunch: are you happy? Or does your exemplary performance in the financial management stakes come at a cost elsewhere in your life? Perhaps you hate your job. Maybe you’re stressed to the eyeballs. Perhaps you hardly ever see your family (for the sake of this exercise, I’m assuming that this is not good). To put it bluntly, are you paying too high a price for your financial well-being?