Be Happy 2.0 How to be happy without spending money.

How to be happy

Be Happy 2.0 Happiness is made of a few chemicals in your brain. Serotonin is the most well-known ... so we'll stick to it for now.

Happiness is made of

Be Happy 2.0 While that does not mean that you're allowed to exploit others, ... it is also very useful to know. ... or treat others as objects,

While that does not mean

Be Happy 2.0 Why can't we be happy ... the old, traditional way?

Why can't we be happy ...

Be Happy 2.0 Can <pleasure> make you happy... If you are asleep? If you are sick? If you have a gun to your head?

Can <pleasure> make you happy...

Be Happy 2.0 You don't need chemicals / crack You don't need expensive stuff You don't need continuous pleasure

You don't need chemicals / crack

Be Happy 2.0 Why demand more all the time? Marketers' theories are designed to control your happiness But that's only if you believe them

Why demand more all the time?

Be Happy 2.0 Why compare with Tom, Dick, Harry? Why aim to be Bill Gates? Why compete with ”high society”?

Why compare with Tom, Dick, Harry?

Be Happy 2.0 You're always paying someone else For serotonin from your own brain To be released into your own brain !

You're always paying someone else

Be Happy 2.0 You should control when you're happy The market gives a 1000 theories Because they want your money By making you “feel good”

You should control when you're happy

Be Happy 2.0 Instead try these things: Family, friends, pets A walk in the woods With nature, without commercials

Instead try these things:

Be Happy 2.0 Nature's simple pleasures ... have worked for millenia You just can't hate a cute baby! Babies! Puppies! Kittens!

Nature's simple pleasures

Be Happy 2.0 Flowers, brooks, breeze Mountains, lakes, valleys It's all free! Pure, clean and trustworthy.

Be Happy 2.0 You just need to leave the couch Forget the TV Put off the cell phone Forget the ”corporate ladder”

Be Happy 2.0 Go meet friends regularly Walk in parks daily Do some pleasant stretching

Be Happy 2.0 Walk dogs and play with cats Play some outdoor sport Old folks have great stories Listen to them, you learn a lot

Be Happy 2.0 All those are free / cheap. If you don't do some of those, the marketers are always waiting. Don't pursue things that they control

Be Happy 2.0 Work must be fun Play with your work Make changes, try new stuff Work doesn't have to be ”hard”

Be Happy 2.0 Don't allow them ... to control your serotonin Your brain, your computer, your code Your beliefs, not copies of theirs

Be Happy 2.0 Be happy Live cheap, save a lot Think well, read a lot Be peaceful, smile a lot

Be happy

Be Happy 2.0 Remember ... Don't pay them ... For your serotonin !

Remember ...