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We Couldn’t Believe It. So We Researched It (Twice). Now Let’s Talk About it. Silly It’s Money!! #Money #Happiness #Millionaire #Rich #MakeHappyFoundation
Wealth makes you unhappy!!
5 mantras for Happiness: • Practice Gratitude. • Live on Less. • Provide for Yourself, be self-sustaining • Appreciate the Outdoors • Seek Community & Build Family Ties.
Stop the chase of wealth, be Happy!
Happiness is not dependent on External Factors: Scientific studies and amazing videos
If I were to tell you that paraplegics and lottery winners had no difference in happiness due to their calamity or fortune you will find it difficult to believe but it’s true. Let’s look at an important and startling study.
“In 1978, a trio of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Massachusetts attempted to look at what makes us happy by asking two very disparate groups about the happiness in their lives: recent winners of the Illinois State Lottery — whose prizes ranged from $50,000 to $1 million — and recent victims of catastrophic accidents, who were now paraplegic
11 terrific facts I have learnt in 100 days of early retirement experience : Joy Vs Job
Looking back I wonder if is it really been 100 days, seems like yesterday. I clearly remember walking out of my office on that last day of job. It was rather overwhelming experience and I felt as if I was walking away from all the 23 years of being a civil servant. Honestly I knew no other kind of professional life. I felt excited, uncertain, free and ready to be something else.
Since then each day has been an experience which I can recall. Every day I feel I have come closer to myself. I want to share the 11 fabulous must read things I have learnt from an early retirement experience
I will prove that Happiness is better for health than any pill !!
Being in a state of happiness gives phenomenal benefits to your heart, In a study called Positive affect and biological function in everyday life Andrew Steptoe and JaneWardle found that happiness lowers heart rate and blood pressure. “In the study, participants rated their happiness over 30 times in one day and then again three years later. The initially happiest participants had a lower heart rate on follow-up (about six beats slower per minute), and the happiest participants during the follow-up had better blood pressure.”
Research has also found a link between happiness and another measure of heart health: heart rate variability, which refers to the time interval between heartbeats. In 2008 Bhattacharyya MR , Whitehead DL, Rakhit R, and Steptoe A monitored 76 patients suspected to have coronary artery disease. Was happiness linked to healthier hearts even among people who might have heart problems?
