Find time to be happy

THE secret of happiness may be as simple as employing a cleaner, studies have found.

Authors of studies of 6000 people say having too little time to do the things you need to do to maintain your life is “a new form of poverty”, and hiring domestic help can reduce stress. The studies of working people in the US, Canada, and Denmark, and of 850 Dutch millionaires, found “people from across the income spectrum benefited from buying time”.

Spending more on timesaving purchases brought more positive emotions than did material purchases.