An important announcement and the simple secrets of happiness

Dear Best Life Reader,
Hello, it’s Jaime here with an exciting announcement!

At Best Life Herbals, we are always striving for innovative ways to improve our customer service, and we’ll take every measure possible to ensure your satisfaction.

Our latest effort has been to move our headquarters from Idaho to a brand new location in Utah!

This new, technologically-savvy operations center promises to provide you with bigger, better service to ensure that your supplement needs are met with the highest level of quality and accuracy possible.

And, we are doing so while not sacrificing timeliness! These new headquarters have been setup to also provide you with faster service times and shorter turn-around.

Our priority is always to make sure you get not only the highest quality supplements, but also the highest quality service. When our research showed that moving our headquarters to a new location would better serve you, we did not hesitate!

So, be sure to take down our new address:

329 E 2100 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84115

But, please note that our phone numbers and contact email are still the same:

1-866-405-5138 (Within the US)
1-208-327-8118 (Outside the US)
Email Us: contact@bestlife-herbals.com

Yours in great health,
Jaime L.

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Discover the Secrets of a Longer, Happier Life

At this time of year, I can’t help but think of old Ebenezer Scrooge. He spent his life an unhappy man, until the holiday spirits showed him the error of his ways.

Of course, real life isn’t as simple as a Charles Dickens novel. But happiness can be as elusive for real people as it was for Scrooge. Fortunately you can easily boost your happiness using some simple strategies.

But before I go into how to increase your happiness, here’s why being happy matters.

Happiness is linked to success. And when I say “success,” I don’t just mean material wealth. Happy people have better marriages… stronger friendships… better work performance… and – often – higher incomes.1

Happy people also tend to be healthier than unhappy people2… and healthy, happy people tend to live longer, too. In fact, one study found that happiness has the same effect on longevity as not smoking.3

So feeling good is definitely good for you.

But how do you increase happiness? Well, you don’t have to be as rich as Midas – or even the guy down the street – to be happy. Money really doesn’t buy happiness.

Take, for example, a 10-year study from the University of Texas. In looking at 274 married adults, they found that a boost in income resulted in a small, short-term rise in happiness. But the higher the income, the less impact increases had.

On the other hand, family social support had a huge impact on their subjects. The closer people were to their families, the happier they were.4 In other words, Dickens was right… Mending the rift with his nephew, Fred, was the smartest thing Scrooge could have done.

And remember how bitter Scrooge was about life? He saw all the negatives. Not surprisingly, a recent study in Personality and Individual Differences lists this as the perfect formula for unhappiness. These researchers found the happiest people are those who focus on the positives.5

Wearing rose-colored glasses may be unrealistic. But developing a “glass-half-full” point of view can pay big dividends.

Of course, Scrooge was all about money. And as we’ve seen, income is no predictor of happiness. But there is one way money can make you happier…

Spend it on others.

After his visitors, Scrooge became as generous as he’d been tight. And, once again, Dickens hit the nail on the head.

In 2008, psychologists at the University of British Columbia tested spending as a key to happiness. They found that people were consistently happier when they spent their money on others instead of themselves.5

So far, Scrooge’s transformation has been a textbook blueprint for creating happiness. And Dickens had the old man do one more thing to make sure it stuck.

Remember when Scrooge vowed to keep the holiday spirit in his heart all year round? That was a tall order. After all, he’d just wished a stake of holly through the hearts of everyone who observed the spirit for a single day.

But it was a smart move, because a brand-new study shows that people who set their goals higher tend to be happier. Even if they don’t always attain them.6

These strategies may seem almost too easy. And maybe even a little corny. (After all, Dickens wrote his story in 1843.) But the research shows they work. And your payoff could be enjoying more – and more fulfilling – years.

Yours in continued good health,

Dr K. Woliner, M.D.
1 Lyubomirsky, S., et al, “The benefits of frequent positive affect: does happiness lead to success?” Psychol Bull. Nov 2005; 131(6): 803-855.
2 Diener, E. and Chan, M.Y., “Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well-Being Contributes to Health and Longevity,” Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. March 2011; 3(1): 1-43.
3 Veenhoven, R., “Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care,” journal of Happiness Studies. 2006; 9(3): 449-469.
4 North, R.J., et al, “Family support, family income, and happiness: a 10-year perspective,” J Fam Psychol. Jun 2008 ;22(3): 475-483.
5 Dunn, E.W., et al, “Spending money on others promotes happiness,” Science. Mar 2008 21; 319(5870): 1687-1688. Science.
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6 Cho, C.K. and Johar, G.V., “Attaining Satisfaction,” journal of Consumer Research. Dec 2011; 38(4): 622.