With things slowing down in so many sectors, including many of our own, it’s pretty easy to feel down. Here’s a great piece of academic research to help you feel better (from the Harvard Biz School). The crux of it is to spend money…on someone else. So, rather than buying yourself a new whatever, why not give that money to a homeless shelter or food bank or the like?
I love this idea. We get so wrapped up in ourselves, in the getting and earning and making, that we forget that wonderful feeling we get when we just simply give.