Monday, February 2, 2009

Formula for Happiness

I came upon a formula for happiness awhile back.  It is: 

P + 3R + 5E = Happiness

This simple formula states happiness equates to your Personal Outlook, Relationships, Spirituality, and your Existential/Material/Survival dimensions.

The most important here is the Existential, giving it a weight of 5.  The dimension is about your income, wealth, material needs, financial freedom, your day to day experiences.  

Next is Relationships with a weight of 3.  It comprises the quality and number of friends, significant others, family, and also your spiritual relationship to the world.  The moral and ethical dimension.

Finally, your personal outlook on life, is the last factor that determines your happiness.  

What's important here for me is seeing the need to balance on these dimensions rather than assessing the validity of the weight given to them.  These dimensions are also not arbitrary, I can see Kabbalist views aligning with this as well. 

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