{"id":464,"date":"2006-11-28T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T18:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=464"},"modified":"2006-11-28T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T18:10:06","slug":"workwork-balance-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/workwork-balance-and-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Work\/Work Balance and Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now for a brief follow up to my <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=463\" target=\"_blank\">previous post.<\/a> From foxnews.com&#8217;s business section &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,232201,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Money Might Buy At Least a Little Happiness, Study Shows<\/a>. A strange survey for sure, but one that illustrates that there is some happiness to having money. That I don&#8217;t doubt. But two excerpts from the article are quite fascinating. First:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does money make you happier? Or does being happier in the first place allow you to earn more money later, maybe by way of greater creativity or energy? Or does some other factor produce both money and happiness? There&#8217;s evidence for all three interpretations, Lucas says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am partial to his second question in that string as being the most accurate. Whichever one is correct, I greatly enjoyed the closing graph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;People exaggerate how much happiness is bought by an extra few thousand,&#8221; Oswald said. &#8220;The quality of relationships has a far bigger effect than quite large rises in salary&#8230;. It&#8217;s much better advice, if you&#8217;re looking for happiness in life, to try to find the right husband or wife rather than trying to double your salary.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That piece of advice, I know, is absolutely accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for a brief follow up to my previous post. From foxnews.com&#8217;s business section &#8211; Money Might Buy At Least a Little Happiness, Study Shows. A strange survey for sure, but one that illustrates that there is some happiness to having money. That I don&#8217;t doubt. But two excerpts from the article are quite fascinating. First: Does money make you happier? Or does being happier in the first place allow you to earn more money later, maybe by way of greater creativity or energy? Or does some other factor produce both money and happiness? There&#8217;s evidence for all three interpretations, Lucas says. I am partial to his second question&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/workwork-balance-and-money\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","category-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1945,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/happiness-is-outstate\/","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":0},"title":"Happiness Is Outstate","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, I\u2019m confused \u2013 from our local Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal: Gallup, Healthways and America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans earlier this week ranked Minnesota as fifth in the country for the overall health of its people. 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