Ten Simple Rules For Happiness…

Sometimes we just need a little reminder!

1. Fill your soul with gratitude and express it constantly.
2. Allow your heart to love and show it openly.
3. Free your mind from worries and live with hope and faith.
4. Enjoy peace, solitude and serenity, pondering messages from within.
5. Be flexible, adapting to change with eager anticipation and resilience.
6. Simplify your life, recognizing the fundamentals of each stage along the way.
7. Take care of your physical body by eating healthily, resting sufficiently, and exercising regularly.
8. Expand your mind and spirit through uplifting literature, music and entertainment.
9. Nurture and value healthy relationships with family and friends.
10. Give more and expect less.

(Author unknown)

Top 12 Easy Red Hot Mama Jumpstarts

1. Clear the physical clutter (closets, counters, garage, car)

2. Clear your mental clutter of any beliefs that no longer serve you. Thank them and let them go!

3. Question all your beliefs, habits, thought patterns. Are they yours, or did you accumulate them from someone else? Are you still being run by beliefs you adopted when you were a child, teenager, newlywed?

4. Apply a habit of “Sift & Sort” to everything: ideas, beliefs, habits, even the people you’re around. Keep what helps you and clear out the rest!

5. Define what you want your life to be in 2008 and beyond. Design and create your life like the bold, outrageous creator you are. (You can say good-by forever to living the life someone else expects you to live.)

6. Now take the picture/list you got in step 5 and make it even bigger, bolder, and more outrageous. What would you do if you had no fears? What would you create if you had no excuses? What would your life be if you could magically create it to fit your wildest dreams?

7. Now put energy into your vision by using all your senses and feeling yourself having attained all this.

8. Be grateful for what is in your life right now. Enjoy what you think is good and thank the rest for the lessons you have learned.

9. Get a partner, Mastermind partner, team of people who support you in your vision of a better life.

10. Make a daily practice of visualizing, savoring, gratitude’s, listing successes, and action.

11. List your successes every day! (Yes, give yourself credit for all you accomplish, even if you’re only taking baby steps toward your goal.)

12. Do something good for someone else. Be part of something bigger than yourself.

Words To Live By

This has been circulating via email now for years. The original pics were adorable but in order to not be guilty of breaking any copyright laws I substituted the pics with ones of my own grandkids!  And I must say, they are just as adorable if not more. LOL

A sharp tongue can cut my own throat.

(AJ making his ‘Home Alone’ face)

 If I want my dreams to come true, I mustn't oversleep.

 Of all the things I wear, my expression is the most important.

 The best vitamin for making friends.... B1.

  The happiness of my life depends on the quality of my thoughts.

 
The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.

  
One thing I can give and still keep...is my word.

 I lie the loudest when I lie to myself.

(AJ, Pic taken by ‘Malin’)

Ideas won't work unless ' I ' do.

My mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.

If I lack the courage to start, I have already finished.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!

It is never too late to become what I might have been.  (This is my motto!)

One thing I can't recycle is wasted time.

Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back.

Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away.

Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong.

Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late.

I don't want to let that happen so I'll tie you to my heart to never lose you.

Finding the Good News

A few thoughts worth thinking!

Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them.
~Author Unknown

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
~John Newton

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number.
~Edith Armstrong

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
~Author Unknown

Jo

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A few years ago I read of a Ukraine businessman who bought a pager for each member of his staff as a New Year's gift. As he was returning from the pager shop, all 50 beepers on the back seat of his automobile simultaneously burst out screeching. He was so alarmed that he drove his car into a lamp post, just 100 meters from his office.

After he assessed the damage to the car, the businessman turned his attention to the message on the 50 pagers. It read: "Congratulations on a successful purchase!" (Reuters, Jan. 14, 1999) That got his attention. Unfortunately, it's the bad news – newspaper headlines and world events – that generally clamor the loudest to get noticed.

And there is enough bad news all around. I came across an article that reported a study of a large group of people who were instructed to evaluate all the information they received for a year and a half. They were asked to record whether what they were seeing and hearing all day long was positive or negative. These researchers determined that ninety percent of the input the group received was negative – bad news.

That may not come as a surprise to everyone. Over a half-century ago, Franklin Roosevelt told about an old man who was losing his hearing and went to the doctor for help. He was advised to quit drinking alcohol. When his family asked him what he was going to do, he replied, "Well, I've given it a lot of thought and I've decided I like what I've been drinkin' so much better than what I've been hearin', I'm just gonna keep on gettin' deaf."

But there is still GOOD news aplenty. We can still hear encouraging words from friends. Any day we can witness numerous acts of generosity and kindness. And we can still spot signs all around us of love and hope. Sometimes we may have to look a little more closely, but the good news is there.

Are you finding it? It's worth the effort.

-- Steve Goodier