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Monday, July 22, 2013

Tips on staying young

1.    Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them -- that is why you pay them.

2.    Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3.    Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4.    Enjoy the simple things.
5.    Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6.    The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7.    Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8.    Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9.    Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county. Travel to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
10.  Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Does being attractive = being Happy ????

What’s the correlations between appearance, income, and happiness ???. Now, researchers have found that people are happier because they have more money. I don't know how much they spend on these researches but they would have just ask me, & I'll tell them the same thing for free...lol...

 Anyway these big time studies found that Personal beauty raises happiness, the majority of beauty’s effect on happiness works through its impact on economic outcomes. 

Beauty affects women’s happiness more than men’s, researchers say. (I agree wholeheartedly !)  For a woman, it just matters to go out while looking good. It hurts to walk down the street looking like an aunty when you are only in your 20s or 30s!!! For a man, beauty’s direct relation to happiness is not as great. It will give you a better-looking wife, a higher-earning wife and — most important — extra earnings. 

Another fairly well-proven path for a man to get a better-looking wife is to be rich—which, presumably, will then lead to happiness. So which comes first: wealth or happiness? Or beauty? At some point, this could become a chicken-egg discussion. 

What’s puzzling is that other studies show that the traditional rewards of being rich—buying lots of stuff—don’t make people happy, and that happiness is something that more often comes with growing older, not growing richer. Seriously I don't know who they are studying.... I can safely tell you-  you are & will NEVER be happy when you grow older- NEVER!!!! And I don't see a lot of poor people being that happy either- but that's another big time study for researchers right?
 
Researchers who study the super rich have also revealed that serious problems and stresses come with having too much money. Ok that I agree. You always wonder whether people "like"  you for being you or they just hope to 'sponge ' on you, or take advantage of you! The expensive paintings, the jewelleries, the fast cars all could be attracting all kinds of criminals to your door step & that's frightening, how to sleep at night?
 
Putting the ultra-wealthy aside, though, there seems to be a consensus among researchers that it’s better to be rich and beautiful. Again..... that goes without saying! So one should strive to make more money and improve one’s appearance right??? 

I'll say don’t  overdo it, in fact don't overdo anything & you'll be fine. Ultimately, it’s the people who obsess about their personal wealth and/or attractiveness that are less happy.
Too much worrying = too much stress, so how to be happy???