40% control of our happiness
"People are just as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abe Lincoln As I sat at my desk this morning and paid bills, i remembered an article I read once about the correlation between happiness and contentment. Did you know that according to a recent research study of 60,000 adults that was published in 2009, genes are responsible for only a portion of a person's sense of well being? 50% of our happiness is biologically driven. Some people are just born prone to a happy disposition. My hubby is this way. Remember in a past post how he amazed DRs. when he was super sick because he was the ONLY IIH patient they had that wasn't suffering from depression and needing a rx for anti depressants? HE ALWAYS SEES THE BRIGHT SIDE. (Me, not so much. I like to think of myself as the REALIST of our family, the yin to his yang- however, I digress...) ...