I tried to trick myself once I started making more than 60K by splitting my direct deposit into checking and savings. Now every raise I get goes directly into savings and I try to live thinking that financially i've been in the same place as I have been for a while. It works fairly well but once you get married, buy a house, and have kids things change quite a bit.
That all being said if you think that your salary correlates to your happiness then you're chasing the dragon.
This actually get's back to why a lot of high salary people have issues with retirement. Suppose your salary doubled between 40 and 50, well your retirement savings have not changed but there is a huge temptation to live a little. Soon retiring on your old salary starts looking like a huge hardship and you end up working even longer vs. that ever so tempting early retirement.
I don't make that much compared to many of the other people posting in this thread, but having an automatic deduction of some significant-but-manageable amount going to a separate account is definitely a nice trick to play on oneself.
That all being said if you think that your salary correlates to your happiness then you're chasing the dragon.