A Happiness Manifesto

  • To be happy, you need to consider feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
  • One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.
  • The days are long, but the years are short.
  • You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy.
  • Your body matters.
  • Happiness is other people.
  • Think about yourself so you can forget yourself.
  • “It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.”—G. K. Chesterton
  • What’s fun for other people may not be fun for you, and vice versa.
  • Best is good, better is best.
  • Outer order contributes to inner calm.
  • Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.
  • You can choose what you do, but you can’t choose what you like to do.
  • “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
  • You manage what you measure.

From:  The Happiness Project at http://www.happinessprojecttoolbox.com/

“Reinvention of Me” Pledge

I promise to be kind to myself, especially through my thoughts and actions. I am a good person, worthy of respect.
I promise to silence my inner critic whose negative energy always seems to drag me down. That critic will no longer have power over me.
I promise to find a source of comfort other than food. When I need to feel better, I will do that activity instead of eating.
I promise to make good food choices the majority of time; my body deserves the good, clean energy of healthy, nutritious food.
I promise to be active every day, even if it’s only for a few minutes; the power of movement will energize me to move more and more each day.
I promise to remember that I am much more than a number on a scale and to love my body exactly as it is right now.
I promise to spend time each day reflecting on how I’m feeling; only through knowing where I am now can I get to where I want to be.
I promise to remove “I should” and “I must” and replace them with “I want to” and “I will.” Such small words will have a powerful impact on my attitude.
I promise to surround myself with positive and energetic people and to brush off the negative energy of people who bring me down.
And most importantly, I promise to be my own best friend and to work hard towards the reinvention of ME…

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She from Me, Now I from Her. Thank You, Jessica.

“Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.  And when it subsides you have to make a decision.  You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.  Because this is what love is.  Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion.  That is just being in love, which any fool can do.  Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.  Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.” Louis de Bernieres from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Here’s A Thought

“If you’re sitting out there now with a nice, neat little outline for the next ten years, you’d better be careful.  Life may have other plans.  Life will present you with unexpected opportunities, and it will be up to you to take a chance, to be bold, to have faith and go for it.” John Grisham