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A Friend of mine from the Happy Club sent me her writing on finding your uniqueness and re gifting it.. She is a retired mother of two and grandmother of two. Her plan is to be a Contented Life Coach, with the goal of working with the young and old on how to find contentment in life with humor on the side. With her ability and education in teaching and social work I believe you are going to love what she has to say:
You have got to go check this out. This friend of mine that lives in the UK has just made a great blog post. He has 50 tips to help with a happier life and they are really good. The one that I really think may help if you need to improve your happiness is tip number 16.
Choose Happiness with your Happy Notes
“Take note of when you are happy and why. These moments can be used as a focus for meditation and thoughtful relaxation, and once you know what makes you happy you can try to recreate those times more often,” Andrew says.
Do you ever have those days where you just don’t feel outgoing, enthusiastic and positive? You’re just plain feeling low. How do you break those moods, so you don’t sit around having a pity party, eating all day and feeling stressed out?
“Be thankful for what you have: You’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” By Oprah Winfrey
Simple things that I do when I’m feeling challenged is to remember:
Let’s face it you have to put aging in the right perspective or you can just plan lose your happiness within. This is how I’m handling aging:
Choose to be Happy Now
I personally can never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, or my loving family for less gray hair (hair dye does wonders) or a flatter belly (Fuller shirts work great). As I’ve aged, I’ve become happier, kinder to myself and less critical of myself. I can honestly say; I have become my own friend. I don’t hate myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement statue that I didn’t need, but looks so lovely ( not so much)on my patio.
“Happiness within is the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.”
No amount of technological development can lead to lasting happiness. What is always missing is a corresponding inner development. Cleaning up our mental environment so that real happiness within can be both uncovered and sustained.
Is Your Glass Half Full?
This is where learning to be an optimist comes in. Learn to see the cup half full, not half empty. Optimists suffer less and recover quickly. They are healthier and better liked and have stronger marriages and more fun. Clearly there optimistic attitude, sometimes can be enough to make some gloomy.
This week has definitely been one of those weeks. Sorry if you thought I was neglecting you, I really wasn’t.
My little 20 month old granddaughter was put in the hospital, because of this RSV going around. Not really sure what this is, but she is one sick little girl. Now today she is starting to run a fever again. Wouldn’t be quite so bad, but she has sisters 6 and 4 that obviously need taken care of while mom and dad are at the hospital. At least I have been able to enjoy those two little ones even though they have been in school some of the time.
If 2009 was about focusing on what we lost, 2010 should be about focusing on what we have.
Many families are finding new rewards when they change their priorities. Take for example this family that Gimundo featured. They sold their 6,500 house for a smaller house and gave the profits on the big house to charity.
Get what you need: In 2008 it was all about the big houses, fancy cars and dining out. In 2009 the bottom fell out of the economy. Some of you may think that my elevator got stuck, but is the change in the economy really a bad thing? People are now taking a second look at what is really important.
Why do people have trouble finding the secret to happiness?
Here are 16 secrets to happiness. Consciously practice these and you are going to find happiness within every single day of the year for the rest of your life.
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Learn to be a carefree person; worries have a way of working out.
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Always be friendly.
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Truly being you, what others think is just an opinion.
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Really be happy with yourself and accepted who you are.
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Remember socializing occasionally can be fun.
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Know that Criticism is clearly going to make you stronger.
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