Dear;

It is my understanding that you are an associate of Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates.  I am writing you on behalf of The Happiness Group, a non-financial (we do not require or seek funds) organization dedicated to encouraging the achievement of an increase in global happiness from our present day level of under 65 percent to a more acceptable level of at least 85 percent.  Based on our research, we are confident that this increase can be ultimately achieved by initially establishing a global network of happiness centers that train customers to become substantially happier for a fee.

As the richest and most generous philanthropist in the world, Bill Gates is committed to helping better our world, and we are confident that by his founding an international happiness-training corporation, Mr. Gates would do more for our global population than by any other means.  We conclude this based on extensive research documenting that as individuals become happier, they become physically and emotionally healthier, more economically productive, more pro-social, and very importantly, more charitable.   We are confident that by his creating a much happier world, Mr. Gates will be creating a much more ethical and compassionate world.

Happiness has been shown to be virtually everyone’s basic goal, however many of us achieve it only marginally because we seek it in ways that have little or no impact.   Although the principles of happiness-increase have been understood for over twenty years, no cultural institution or major business is currently disseminating this knowledge.   There is a popular expression that comes to mind regarding the creation of a network of happiness training centers: “Build it and they will come.”  Bill Gates is the person on our planet most capable of creating these happiness-training centers, and thereby pioneering the creation of an international happiness training industry. 

The Happiness Group has recently launched a campaign aimed at encouraging Mr. Gates to assume leadership of a global happiness-increase initiative that would begin by his creating an international happiness-training corporation.  Our strategy is to ask as many of Bill Gates’ associates as we can to personally refer this pioneering philanthropic/business venture to Mr. Gates.  We are confident that one of his associates will ultimately succeed at persuading Mr. Gates to establish this corporation.  If you share our vision of a much happier, better world, and our conclusion that Mr. Gates is the perfect person to lead this epochal venture, we would very much appreciate your referring our idea to him. 

To assist you in deciding whether the vision we present is worthy of Mr. Gates’ attention, we have created a web site called Shared Happiness Research (presently under construction).  On a single web page we present facts about happiness, happiness-increase, and the benefits of happiness in a well- organized, user-friendly format that provides very quick access to relevant information.  Please take a moment to visit our site.

Thank you for considering our proposal.  We hope you will decide to convey to Mr. Gates the vision of a much happier, healthier, and better world, made real by the leadership and enterprise of the richest and most generous individual on the planet; Bill Gates.