Success in Balance

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Cheer up: You hold key to being happy
Think about three good things that happened to you each day before you go to sleep…

People keep doing it on their own because it’s immediately rewarding, said Seligman colleague Acacia Parks. It makes people focus more on good things that happen, which might otherwise be forgotten because of daily disappointments, she said.

Miller said that the exercise made her notice more good things in her day, and that now she routinely lists 10 or 20 of them, rather than just three.

Great article with some great perspectives. We are what we think and when we think happy we eventually become happy

Sort of like Thanksgiving every day!

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Having money helps, to a point

Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winner and Princeton economist, and colleagues recently declared that the notion that making a lot of money will produce good overall mood is “mostly illusory.”They noted that in one study, people with household incomes of $90,000 or more were only slightly more likely to call themselves “very happy” overall than were people from households making $50,000 to $89,999. The rates were 43 percent versus 42 percent, respectively.

Definitely interesting to think about this article. What role does money play in your happiness? Sure it does not cure issues, but it can do other things. I suspect if they accounted for other issues, such as marital state, family relationships etc. they could have explained more of the difference. That’s why we all need balance.