I can tell you this much for certain: since I started living my life in this way, helping others, being grateful, humble, forgiving and able to admit my mistakes, life has been amazing. I don’t always get it right, I’m still learning every day and I’m definitely not perfect, but I firmly believe these are the keys to a happy, healthy life. Combine

Cultivate instantaneous generosity. I’m definitely still working on the habit proposed (and practiced) by the meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein: whenever a generous impulse arises in your mind—to give money, check in on a friend, send an email praising someone’s work—act on the impulse right away, rather than putting it off until later.