If you can, give more away than you can take. “Research shows it really doesn’t make people happy to spend money on themselves,” one professor Michael Norton tells Harvard magazine. “It’s not how much you give, it’s that you give…. If you have an extra $20, it’s better to spend it on someone else than on yourself.” In a range of experiments, the researchers found that those who give to others —particularly those who give regularly — report higher levels of happiness.
Do not look back and regret; indulge from time to time. Do heed and not ignore your needs and desires. People can sometimes live too much for the future. We all know that people can be too impulsive and yield to temptation. Our argument is that people can also be too farsighted and over confident. As a result, they have wistful regrets of missing out on life’s pleasures when they look back.
Go for ‘content and satisfaction'. Aspire to become the richest, the brightest, the most talented, the best in class— might not guarantee lasting happiness. Let us look at our limits, professors Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson write in Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life.
If life were lived in a fixed time frame, where success was measured only in the instant you hit the peak, maximized measures would work. But the only fixed time frame we know for sure is death. Everything else is subject to moving targets. If you wish to live with a continually renewing sense of success that really seems worthwhile and lasting on all your success targets, you probably have to give up aspiring to be in the standard of the "Rich & Famous".
Live life happier by: using your resources to help others, living your life without regret and not look back on what you missed. Embracing limits as a way to slow down and gauge your life’s progress.
Will you be happier now from 2010 onwards?
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