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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2013/08/130815_6min_happiness.shtml

A German study (by Frey and Stutzer published in 2004) found a strong link between time spent commuting and satisfaction with life. Those who spent an hour on their journey to work were found to be significantly less happy than those who did not commute.

And the study suggests that higher earnings from a job that involves commuting do not compensate for the time lost.

Prof Veenhoven and his colleagues have been trying to encourage people to do more of what makes them happy with a diary they can fill in online. So far it has attracted more than 20,000 users.

Pensioner Jana Koopman says it has changed her life, not just because it helped her identify what makes her happy, and prompted her to take up a painting class, but because it made her do less of what doesn't make her happy.

"You can make everything clean and tomorrow it's dirty again, so why do it? Or don't do it too often. I like to read. So now I just pick up a book I want to read and leave all the other things."

Don't worry, though, if you can't put down your laptop and pick up a book or a paintbrush. We can't be happy all the time.

Research shows that sadness is useful. It acts as a red traffic light to curb negative behaviour.

According to studies on the database it's actually good for us all to be sad 10% of the time.

Professor Veenhoven and his colleagues have begun analysing the data collected in the online diary to conduct more happiness studies.

So far, analysis on self-confessed workaholics shows, perhaps unsurprisingly, that unwinding after work with exercise rather than a beer on the sofa makes for a happier life.

 

"what things make you feel good?

People´s ideas about hapiness are........

older people tend to be happier because they are....

You are happier if you think you are....

If you have children, your levels of hapiness.....

Long morning commuting to work makes you....

It is actually good for us to be sad ..... of our time.

 

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"Heaven, I'm in heaven

And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

And I seem to find the happiness I seek

When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

 

Heaven, I'm in heaven

And the cares that hung around me through the week

Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak

When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek

 

Ohh I'd love to climb a mountain and reach the highest peak

But it doesn't put me half as much

As dancing cheek to cheek

 

Oh I'd love to go out fishing in an river or a creek

But I don't enjoy it half as much

As dancing cheek to cheek dance with me

 

I want my arms about you; the charms about you

Will carry me through to heaven, I'm in heaven

And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

And I seem to find the happiness I seek

When we're out together swinging cheek to cheek

 

come on and dance with me

 I want my arms about you; the charms about you

it will carry me through right up to

 

Heaven, I'm in heaven

And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

And I seem to find the happiness I seek

When we're out together dancing

out together dancing

out together dancing cheek to cheek. 

 

come on and dance with me

I want my arms about you;

the charms about you

it will carry me through right up to

 

Heaven, I'm in heaven

And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

And I seem to find the happiness I seek

When we're out together dancing

out together dancing

out together dancing cheek to cheek.

 

" Cielo , estoy en el cielo
Y mi corazón late de modo que apenas puedo hablar
Y me parece que encontrar la felicidad que busco
Cuando estamos juntos bailando mejilla a mejilla


Cielo , estoy en el cielo
Pero los afanes que colgaban alrededor de mí a través de la semana
Parecen desvanecerse como racha de buena suerte de un jugador
Cuando estamos juntos bailando mejilla a mejilla


Ohh Me encantaría subir a una montaña y llegar a la cima más alta
Pero no me pone la mitad de lo
Como el baile mejilla con mejilla


Oh Me encantaría ir a pescar en un río o de un arroyo
Pero yo no lo disfruto la mitad de lo
Como el baile mejilla a mejilla danza conmigo


Quiero mis brazos alrededor de ti, los encantos de ti
Se me llevan hasta el cielo, estoy en el cielo
Y mi corazón late de modo que apenas puedo hablar
Y me parece que encontrar la felicidad que busco
Cuando estamos juntos balanceando mejilla con mejilla


ven y baila conmigo
 Quiero mis brazos alrededor de ti, los encantos de ti
que me va a llevar a cabo hasta


Cielo , estoy en el cielo
Y mi corazón late de modo que apenas puedo hablar
Y me parece que encontrar la felicidad que busco
Cuando estamos bailando juntos
bailando juntos
juntos bailando mejilla a mejilla.


ven y baila conmigo
Quiero mis brazos alrededor de ti;
los encantos de ti
que me va a llevar a cabo hasta


Cielo , estoy en el cielo
Y mi corazón late de modo que apenas puedo hablar
Y me parece que encontrar la felicidad que busco
Cuando estamos bailando juntos
bailando juntos
juntos bailando mejilla a mejilla.

 

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