Searching For Happiness? Scientists Prove You Should Stop Buying Things & Go On More Vacations.

I want to play a game with you. Think of the last three Christmases you’ve had. Can you think of at least one present from every year? Pretty hard, right? Leading up to that special holiday, all we could think about was that new gadget, toy, purse, or whatever it was. Only three years later and I’m struggling to remember what exactly it was I longed for so badly.

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Here’s the second part of the game: can you think of the last three amazing trips or vacations you took? For some reason, that was much easier for me – what about for you?

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Thanks to science, here’s a perfectly good explanation as to why it may be easier for you to reflect back on the memories of a great vacation than material items.

Research is revealing that getting too used to all our stuff is robbing us of joy. New experiences like traveling, outdoor activities, and learning new skills provide far more happiness.

“One of our enemies of happiness is adaptation,”says Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University. “We buy things to make us happy, and we succeed, but only for a little while. New things are exciting to us at first, but then we adapt to them.â€

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It looks like one of the keys to happiness isn’t buying more things, it’s taking more trips. The more we keep our lives refreshed, the more exciting times we will have.

What new experiences will you make?

Share this amazing realization today!