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Ways that improve your happiness:

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Think about time One of the chapters in Happy Money  is all about buying time. So, everything you buy, think about how it’s going to affect your time. Not the product itself, but what you’re going to do with it later and that massively changes your decision-making. So, not to come back to TVs, but buying a TV, you think, “ Oh. This is going to be great. I’m going to have friends over and we’re going to watch TV and the kids will be there. We’ll have family movie night. ” It turns out, when you buy a TV, what you do is you watch it by yourself in a dark room. It’s not good for you. If you think about, “ Wait. How am I actually going to use this TV? How will it actually change my time? ” you might say, “ Maybe I don’t want to get a TV. “ Those kinds of decisions, alone, are very important to think about, not your fantasy of what it’s going to do, but “ How will this actually change the time I spend in the weeks going forward? ” and a TV commits you to thousands of hours by yourse

5 smart ways to buy happiness:

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Buy Experiences .Make It A Treat Buy Time Pay Now, Consume Later Invest In Others Creative Commons Your 12 Lucky Lottery Number Calculators are here: Lucky Numbers 4U .

Tips that can help build a happier life:

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1) Cut the small talk. Discuss what matters. 2) Make sure to have at least five friends you can discuss your problems with. 3) Don’t just cheer people up. Celebrate their good news. 4) Write down your hopes and dreams. 5) Live a month like it’s your last. 6) Know what makes everyone happy and everyone sad. 7) Join a group. 8) For a happier life, set goals. 9) Optimism can save your life. 10) Anticipating happiness will double your happiness. Creative Commons Your 12 Lucky Lottery Number Calculators are here: Lucky Numbers 4U .

Advice on Happiness

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Older people’s advice on happiness:   What I consistently heard was that you can choose to be happy on a day-to-day basis, despite external circumstances. A lot of them think of young people as believing that you can be happy if only something occurs: if only they lose weight, gain weight, find a partner, lose a partner, get new job, get a different job, etc. They argue that once you hit 70, if you can’t learn to be happy in spite of bad things happening to you, you aren’t going to be happy for those 20 or 30 years. Almost everybody learned at some point in their life, that happiness is more of a choice than it is a condition. The reason why that’s not just a cliche to these folks is that they’ve been through all the stuff, especially in their 80′s and 90′s, that keeps young people awake at night. They know what they’re talking about. Almost everybody can point to a moment, or a day, or a week where they were feeling miserable about something, and they changed their attitude ra