A discussion about business ethics, character traits, integrity, and values

We look everywhere for happiness, in work, in leisure and recreation, in meals, but the best place to look is at home. This shouldn’t be news, but long-term happiness is more likely to come when you focus on your family and your health rather than careers and money.

“Researchers say people spend too much time worrying about achieving professional and monetary goals that may never bring them true happiness” says Jennifer Warner, WebMD Medical News. “But by devoting more time to personal health and family life, people will find lasting happiness.

“Richard Easterlin, an economist at the University of Southern California, says that most individuals spend a disproportionate amount of their lives working to make money, and sacrifice family life and health. ‘Hence,’ he says, ‘a reallocation of time in favor of family life and health would, on average, increase individual happiness.’”