"Happiness" has many dimensions and for many of us we really need to work at it.
Happiness does not happen overnight. Even if you share your life with your "ideal" partner, life and lifestyle are still a "journey" for all of us.

We have approached this "journey" in 5 logically steps. These 5 steps lead us along a path that we believe helps us "take control" of events in our life, rather than being controlled by these events.

Lifestyle Balance can mean different things to different people. We use it as our term to describe the choices and decisions that we all need to make on this journey to happiness.

We put a reasonable amount of emphasis on the financial aspects of our journey because many of our Lifestyle choices are influenced by our levels of income and how we choose to invest this income. We use the word "invest" rather than "spend" because how you dispose of your income is largely your choice. This choice is made by us based on the Lifestyle Balance path that we are on.

The problem is that we probably have not chosen our Lifestyle Balance path, but instead we have "drifted into it" based on our social environment. The HomeNet Journey is therefore about "taking control" of your environment which should lead to choices that enable you to "do the right thing" for both yourself and your family.