Being rich is a shortcut for when you can’t control your desires. In that sense, being rich doesn’t bring happiness. Focusing on mastering your pulses and narrowing them down on key areas for you is what drive happiness. You’ll also realize that acknowledging and controlling your pulses, aspirations and desires are actually easier than being rich.
If you aren’t, can’t, don’t want to be rich then focus on mastering and focusing your desires should be your prime goal. You’ll be happy. If you are rich, you’ll find out that it works too.

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“The Beggin Bowl Story” lightly illustrates the concept of infinite desires very well. For this gem the credit goes to – The One Thing of Garry Keller

Upon coming out of his palace one morning and encountering a
beggar, a king asks, “What do you want?” The beggar laughingly
says, “You ask as though you can fulfill my desire!” Offended, the
king replies, “Of course I can. What is it?” The beggar warns,
“Think twice before you promise anything.”

Now, the beggar was no ordinary beggar but the king’s past-life
master, who had promised in their former life, “I will come to try
and wake you in our next life. This life you have missed, but I will come again to help you.”

The king, not recognizing his old friend, insisted, “I will fulfill
anything you ask, for I am a very powerful king who can fulfill
any desire.” The beggar said, “It is a very simple desire. Can you
fill this begging bowl?” “Of course!” said the king, and he
instructed his vizier to “fill the man’s begging bowl with money.”
The vizier did, but when the money was poured into the bowl, it
disappeared. So he poured more and more, but the moment he did,
it would disappear.

The begging bowl remained. empty.

Word spread throughout the kingdom, and a huge crowd gathered.
The prestige and power of the king were at stake, so he told his
vizier, “If my kingdom is to be lost, I am ready to lose it, but I
cannot be defeated by this beggar.” He continued to empty his
wealth into the bowl. Diamonds, pearls, emeralds. His treasury was
becoming empty.

And yet the begging bowl seemed bottomless. Everything put into
it immediately disappeared!

Finally, as the crowd stood in utter silence, the king dropped at the
beggars feet and admitted defeat. “You are victorious, but before
you go, fulfill my curiosity. What is the secret of this begging
bowl?”

The beggar humbly replied,

“There is no secret. It is simply made
up of human desire.”

Word spread throughout the kingdom, and a huge crowd gathered.
The prestige and power of the king were at stake, so he told his
vizier, “If my kingdom is to be lost, I am ready to lose it, but I
cannot be defeated by this beggar.” He continued to empty his
wealth into the bowl. Diamonds, pearls, emeralds. His treasury was
becoming empty.

And yet the begging bowl seemed bottomless. Everything put into
it immediately disappeared!

Finally, as the crowd stood in utter silence, the king dropped at the
beggars feet and admitted defeat. “You are victorious, but before
you go, fulfill my curiosity. What is the secret of this begging
bowl?”

The beggar humbly replied,

“There is no secret. It is simply made
up of human desire.”