1. Happy People Earn More
Yes. People who are happier with their lives have been found to have higher incomes and more material wealth. According to the United Nations World Happiness Survey, published in 2015, throughout the world, income is the #1 predictor for happiness, and the more you make, the happier you become.
According to Cornell University economics professor Robert Frank, increased yearly income is the most significant way to increase happiness.
2. Happy People Get More Success
Yes. Success doesn’t make us happy; rather, being happy makes us successful, as many studies have proved.
Happy people are more likely to ace job interviews, and secure better jobs. They are evaluated more positively by superiors on a job, show higher performance and productivity, and handle managerial position jobs better.
Happiness also makes you more productive, and improves your ability to problem-solve. In fact, people who were primed to feel happy in an experiment by economists at Warwick University were found to be 11% more productive. In a job, a happy person is more likely to succeed better. They are also less likely to show disruptive behavior and work burnout.
In a 2007 study that followed more than 6,000 men and women aged 25 to 74 for 20 years, Dr. Laura Kubzansky, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Society and Health Psychophysiology Laboratory at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that emotional vitality — a sense of enthusiasm, hopefulness, and engagement in life — appears to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. She has found that optimism cuts the risk of coronary heart disease by half.
3. Happy People Help Others More
Yes. Happy people are more ‘prosocial’, that is they seem more inclined to help others. Happy people volunteer at higher levels than their unhappy friends and colleagues for charity and community service groups, as religious, political, health-related, and educational organizations.
4. Happy People Have Better Relationships
Yes. Relationships have been proven by many researchers to be the single most important factor responsible for the survival of human species. Happy people have more friends and better social support, and also, they are more satisfied with their friends and their group activities. The top 10% happiest college students, in a study, have been found to have high-quality relationships. They have been found to be less jealous and to have stronger contacts with their family members.
My empirical study of well-being among 1,600 Harvard undergraduates found a similar result—social support was a far greater predictor of happiness than any other factor, more than GPA, family income, SAT scores, age, gender, or race. In fact, the correlation between social support and happiness was 0.7. This may not sound like a big number, but for researchers it’s huge—most psychology findings are considered significant when they hit 0.3. The point is, the more social support you have, the happier you are. —Shawn Achor7 Reasons You Need Happiness: Why Is Happiness Important - ir?source=bk&t=happindiproj 20&bm id=default&l=ktl&linkId=18f1074ed2555ae2afc1d46360485c03& cb=1492615856602 1
5. Happy People Have Better Marriages
Yes. Happy people have more fulfilling marriages. They tend to be more satisfied within their marriages. Researchers have found that there is indeed a very strong relationship between happiness and satisfaction with marriage and family. Happy people who are either married or in committed relationships more often describe their partner as being their “great love” than their less happy friends.
6. Happy People Have Better Health
Yes. Happy people have better physical health and report fewer unpleasant physical symptoms. They have fewer emergency room and hospital visits, make fewer calls to the doctor, use less medication, and have fewer work absences. They also experience less pain.
Yes. Happy people are mentally healthier than their less happy social group members. They have fewer symptoms of mental diseases, such as hypochondriasis, schizophrenia, social phobia, anxiety, or depression. Happy people are also less likely to report a history of drug abuse.
Healthy people are not happier. The reverse is true: happy people are healthier. – Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen
It is often said that people spend the best years of their life trying to make money and sacrificing their health and their family, only to spend the rest of their days paying that same money in an attempt to recover their lost health and their estranged family. – Jose de Jesus Garcia Vega
7. Happy People Are More Resilient
Yes. Resilience is our “bouncing back” capacity, that is, how fast and well we can recover from our difficulties. Happiness is about being able to make the most of the good times – but also to cope effectively with the inevitable bad times, in order to experience the best possible life overall.
To be happy, you have to learn how to pick yourself up after a fall, how to come back strong after a failure, how to let go negative feelings people heap on you, and find the resilience to all that.
Final Words
Happiness is the most important thing we want for the people we love. We always want our loved ones to be happy, even at the cost of our own happiness. You do need happiness in your life for more than just feeling good. That’s why it matters so much.
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