Before the new year gets underway and you jump back into your busy life, this is an excellent time to reflect on the true source of happiness. According to an article by Jan Eickmeier at Prevention magazine, the answer is simple: “family, friends, meaningful activities, and the ability to forgive.
“The happiest people don’t try to compete with some materialistic ideal; indeed, materialism can be toxic to happiness. One important component of happiness is being able to lose yourself in a task or hobby. ... Marriage and close family ties are also important antidotes to unhappiness.
“Ed Diener, PhD, a professor at the University of Illinois and co-editor of ‘Well-Being,’ a scientific work on happiness has found that there is no one recipe for happiness, but that almost all happy people have good friends.”
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