If you want to be healthier and live longer, here are seven habits that were discovered as part of a study initiated in Alameda County California in 1965, and followed up in the next two decades. Known as the "Alameda Seven," the habits are:

1.  Eating breakfast daily

2.  Sleeping 7-8 hours a night

3.  Regular exercise

4.  Maintaining desirable weight for height

5.  Avoid snacks

6.  No smoking

7.  Drinking less than five drinks at one sitting 

While this doesn't seem very glamorous, adopting these habits are likely to extend your life and improve the quality of your life, too. Developing such everyday practices has been documented over forty years to have a profound positive influence on the expression of your health, so if you could use some improvement in one or more of these areas, it's something you can do for very little money, with a minimal investment in time and energy, to make your life that much better. A word to the wise is sufficient! Make good decisions, and you will be healthier, feel better and live longer!

Money does not buy happiness.

A study of life satisfaction looked at twenty different factors that might contribute to happiness. Nineteen of those factors did matter, and one did not. The one factor that did not matter was financial status. (Hong and Giannakopoulos, 1995.)