Three Things That (Might) Change Your Life.

The ‘FALL IN LOVE’ Test: Some years ago, Arthur Aron (and a few fellow boffins), conducted a study to see if they could make two strangers fall in love. It worked, and they did. Some twenty years later, Mandy Catron’s Modern Love essay, ‘To Fall in Love With Anyone Do This‘, describes what happened when she tried the test out. Spoiler Alert! It worked. So, if the idea of asking 36 increasingly personal questions, and then staring silently in to someone’s eyes for 4 minutes (!) doesn’t scare the bejesus out of you, then CLICK HERE to try it out for yourself. I’ll be expecting an invite to the wedding. Naturally.

Thinking About Your Funeral: If you want the inside track on what really matters in life, you should probably start thinking ahead to your death. Quite simply – How would you like to be remembered? In our quest for success in life, we often focus on what David Brooks calls ‘resume virtues’ (graduated from x, a successful 3 years working at y, sat on the board of z), when instead we should be spending far more time polishing our ‘eulogy virtues’. Your eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral. Were you kind and brave? Were you honest and loyal? Were you an excellent friend? A loving wife? A brilliant dad? Bloody good fun? In Japan, no joke, people are choosing to face their mortality head on with a ‘coffin experience’ – literally playing dead, to better appreciate the fact they are not.

Saving $27.50 a Day: I have mentioned this one before, but its a goodie so its getting a 2nd outing. Do you reckon, with a little bit of effort (OK, maybe a lot), you could find a way to save $27.50 a day? Could you skip the take-out? Not buy the dress? Join for drinks, not dinner? Stop getting an Uber? Sell those old clothes? Work an extra hour? Use one of those round-up apps? Do this for a year, my friend, and you will have $10,000 to spend on whatever life-changing magic you fancy.

This GET HAPPIER Post is brought to you by someone who is currently making some changes in her life. If you don’t hear from me, looks like you’re one of them!