Suttas on desire and craving: understand urges, reduce compulsive seeking, and learn how wanting rises and passes.
Start here when urges run the day: learn to feel desire without obeying it.
AN 4.62 lists four kinds of happiness for a householder: wealth, enjoyment, debt-free, and blamelessness. A practical “before you say yes” check for work and money decisions, so you can pursue goals without compromising what you can live with.
What you keep feeding becomes easier to return to.
MN 19 shows how desire grows through repeated thinking, and how attention becomes steadier when you stop feeding every pull.