Edel Coffey: If we have 'enough', surely, we can all be as happy as Finland?

"...it wasn’t about having huge, luxurious houses or a constantly changing wardrobe of designer clothes or lots of cars...."

Edel Coffey: the ability to mind our basic needs leads to satisfaction. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan

I had lunch with a friend last week. She looked great, brighter and happier than I had ever seen her, in fact. I wondered had something changed in her life.

Nothing really, she said, apart from the fact that she had released herself from a self-imposed pressure to achieve an old goal that she wasn’t even sure she still wanted to achieve.