Science-Backed Hacks to Being Happier in 2017
Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re exploring the extensive science of happiness. We’ll suggest three small steps you can take to be happier in 2017 and review a few apps that promise to improve your mood. Bro will also answer your question about how to invest a lump sum when you fear a market downturn is imminent.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Motleyful Answers is brought to you by Sure Payroll. If you're a small business owner, you know payroll and payroll taxes can be a headache. |
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| 0:20.2 | This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I am joined by Robert Brokamp, personal |
| 0:24.6 | finance expert here at the Motley Fool, and he is also the advisor on Motley Fool's Rulier |
| 0:29.5 | Retirement Newsletter. So as promised, all this month, we're tackling ways to be healthier |
| 0:34.5 | and wealthier in 2017. And so today we're going to look at the science of happiness and offer three things that you |
| 0:40.4 | can do this year to have more joy and be happier in 2017. |
| 0:44.3 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 0:45.3 | Isn't that nice? |
| 0:46.3 | We'll also answer your questions about investing when you worry the market has peaked. |
| 0:50.5 | All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers. |
| 0:56.1 | It's time for Answers! |
| 0:58.2 | And this week's question comes from Ziv. |
| 1:04.9 | Ziv writes, I love your show to the point where I think my friends will soon stop inviting me to parties because I always try to get them to start listening. |
| 1:08.0 | Invite us to the parties then. |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah, we're free. |
| 1:14.7 | All right. My wife and I are in our early 20s and have a chunk of change sitting from our wedding gifts that we won't be using for at least another three to five years, maybe more. |
| 1:18.5 | It's sitting in the checking account, which feels like committing financial sin, but we're in |
| 1:22.6 | the second longest bull run on record. |
| 1:25.6 | So investing in the stock market seems nuts, since I'm fairly |
| 1:28.5 | certain that there are darker times ahead. |
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