An Economic Case for Happiness

I've written about happiness before (here and here), but after reading a post from Kevin Kelly Unlimited, I had to share it.

In his post titled A Happy source of income!, he relates research that looked at thousands of college students in the 70's and the 90's. When taking out the influences of other factors, the research found that those found to be more cheerful were also making $15,000/year.

That is $60 more dollars a work day, assuming two weeks vacation.

Interestingly, many people might say they would be happier with $60 more each day. I guess they've got it backwards.

Get happy and the rewards may come. Don't wait for the rewards to get happy.

We can all choose happiness. We'll be better co-workers and teammates. We'll be more productive. We'll be better leaders. We'll serve Customers better. We'll have better relationships. We'll be healthier. And apparently, we'll be richer too.