Happiness is not a goal. It’s an ongoing journey to be savored along the way day by day.
We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term…
The law of life is the law of belief. Belief can be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind. The master secret of the ages is the marvellous, miracle-working power found in my own subconscious mind. This is,…
Happy Money – The Science of Smarter Spending by Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness if you…
You can’t go around blaming other people for all the bits of your life that aren’t how you like them to be. I am not being unsympathetic. I am just saying that’s how it is. No one else—but you—can make…
Numerous studies have shown that money makes happy up to an inflection point of between 40,000 to 70,000 USD per year. I guess that is quite obvious since with that amount of money one’s basic needs can be met (depending on where…
No, I am not referring to that 1998 action movie with Tia Carrere. More to situations where you spend a month researching the best flat screen TV, then invested twice as much money in a penny stock based solely on a hot…
What kind of treadmill is that? You say, “I know only the treadmills from Horizon, Epic, and Lifespan.” Like so many of us, I am quite sure that you have spent some time on the Hedonic Treadmill. The Hedonic Treadmill is one that some people are constantly running…
Back in 1995, researchers from Harvard asked students/staff which they preferred: Earning $50,000 a year when everyone else around them makes $25,000. Earning $100,000 a year when everyone else around them makes $200,000. Prices of goods and services would be…