12 Points to Happiness

Today I’m going to cheat and give you something that came from someone else’s brain. It’s a little bit longer than my normal articles, but well worth the read. Enjoy!

12 Points to Perpetual Happiness

1. Understand that being happy is an emotional decision. Just as anger, comma, pride and repentance are emotional decisions. Decide now that you will work at being happy more often. You are either the master of your destiny or a slave to you fate. only you can choose how you'll react to a situation. Choose well.

2. Always associate with people who will lift you up. There are people everywhere who will tell you how bad things are and how you'll never amount to anything. These people are really talking about themselves. You should find better company.

3. Meet everybody on friendly terms. Each new person could be your next best friend, or the person who will pull you out of a ditch in half an hour. Treat them as such.

4. You become what you think about and tell yourself all day. Safeguard your thoughts, and when you talk to yourself, say positive things.

5. Keep yourself too busy to mope around. Sitting around with I, Me, Mine and Myself (your four worst friends) and bemoaning your existance will get you nowhere. Keep your day full of people and projects and family and correspondence. Advance every day in the direction of your goals.

6. Be involved in big projects. To help you organize yourself, and your time. I'm continually amazed at how much more I can get done (in my spare time) when I work 75 hours a week than when I work 20.

7. Cultivate humor always, but cynicism never. Laughing at yourself and chuckling at the humor in your situation keeps you from taking yourself too seriously and wanting to strangle somebody. Picking on other people doesn't lift them up, and it doesn't help you up either.

8. Read 15 minutes' worth of inspirational material before noon every day. This not only lifts your spirit and makes the path before you, but also gives you something good to talk about.

9. Memorize words of upbeat songs and inspirational quotes. Keep these on hand when you have nothing else to think about.

10. Opinions change- facts remain the same. Learn to seperate opinion from fact and don't get caught up in everybody's opinion, even your own. Especially, don't live your life based on what other people might think about you.

11. Don't worry about things you have no control over. Learn to solve problems quickly. Learn to anticipate, work through, or avoid the things (problems) you can't solve. Plan ahead and don't forget to make a "Plan B."

12. Keep your faith in God and in the Big Picture. Even though you can't see all the curves in the road ahead, be confident that things will straighten themselves out (with your help) eventually. If you are doing your part you can have every expectation that God will do his part.

By R. Dale Jeffery
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- K.C.