Genuinely appreciating the different aspects of your life can improve your well-being. In fact, people who regularly practice gratitude – by writing gratitude lists, for instance – report greater happiness and optimism, have lower levels of stress and depression, and even sleep better at night.
|
|||||
 |
Having wealth doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be happy. You may still worry but what you worry about is different than what you’d worry about if you weren’t rich. If you own your business – a dream of many – managing a large fortune composed of liquid and physical assets, scattered in various geographic locations, can be Continue reading Money Does Not Guarantee Happiness – The Tendency to Want More Can money buy happiness? Much research has been done that shows that income has a reliable, but weak, relationship with being happy. While incomes have surged in recent decades, happiness levels have remained static, showing no sign of people being happier as a result of their increased income. A University of British Columbia study (”Spending Money Continue reading Prosocial Spending Makes Us Happy – But we Prefer to Spend on Personal Wants Being with family and friends makes us happy. Studies have found that regularly seeing friends and family can provide a huge boost to our happiness. Money helps in this regard, allowing you to go out to dinner with neighbors, travel to see old friends, take your family on vacation and go to the theater with your Continue reading Money Can Buy You Time With Family and Friends There are plenty of rich people who constantly worry about money. But, in general, if you save diligently you are going to get to a point where financial worries are relatively rare – you can be financially happy, instead. The feeling of being financially happy isn’t just for the wealthy. If you live beneath your means Continue reading If You Have Money You Don’t Have to Worry About It – Save and Be Happy Only 20 percent of Americans are passionate about what they do, and that means 80 percent are unhappy, dissatisfied and unfulfilled. What a powerful and almost alarming statement. Janet Bray Attwood is a New York Times best-selling author and motivational speaker of “The Passion Test,” a book on how we can live our passions and enjoy our Continue reading Follow Your Passions to Live a Fulfilled Life |
||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Prosperity Concierge - All Rights Reserved
|
|||||
