100 Ways To Keep Yourself Happy
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1. Never put yourself last.
2. When you extend a helping hand to one person, be careful not to kick someone else in the teeth.
3. Always own a pair of old, faded jeans.
4. Count your blessings every day.
5. Acknowledge your successes along with your downfalls.
6. Burn the candle that has been in storage for the last two years.
7. Strive for progress, not perfection.
8. Remember, the voice telling you that you cannot do something is always lying.
9. At least once a day sit and do nothing.
10. Don’t close your heart so tightly against life’s pain that you shut out life’s blessings.
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11. Celebrate all your birthdays no matter how old you get.
12. Examine your life for limitations and ask yourself why you put them there.
13. Plant a tree, pull weeds, or get your hands dirty.
14. Diminish your wants instead of increasing your needs.
15. Cry when you feel like it.
16. Rejoice in other people’s triumphs.
17. Don’t wait for someone else to laugh or express joy.
18. Forgive yourself for any mistake you make, no matter how big or small.
19. Keep good company.
20. Never take a pill for a pain you need to feel.
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21. Use your enthusiasm to put yourself in forward gear and give yourself a spark to move ahead.
22. Look in the eyes of the ones you love when you are talking to them.
23. Remember that one is a whole number.
24. Walk in a summer rain shower without an umbrella.
25. Do a kind deed for someone else.
26. Keep your eyes and ears open to get the messages you need from people and events in your daily life.
27. Be patient.
28. Eat something green.
29. Change what you can and leave the rest alone.
30. Walk hand and hand with truth.
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31. Make laughter and joy a greater part of your life than anger and grief.
32. Embrace solitude instead of running from it.
33. Be zealous, not jealous.
34. Forgive anyone you’ve been holding a grudge against.
35. Slow down and enjoy the present.
36. Walk in others’ shoes before judging them.
37. Send yourself a kind message.
38. Remind yourself that the company you keep is a reflection of what you think of yourself.
39. Go on a picnic.
40. Accept your fears, no matter how crazy they seem.
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41. Don’t let other people’s opinions shape who you are.
42. Say a prayer.
43. Never attribute your accomplishments to luck or chance.
44. Know when to say no.
45. Look at the positive side of negative situation.
46. Remember that you are a spiritual being in a physical body.
47. Avoid seeking out other people for constant approval, because it make them the master and you the slave.
48. Go fly a kite.
49. Avoid fads and bandwagons.
50. Accept the things you cannot change.
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51. Look inside instead of outside yourself for answers to life’s problems.
52. Remember that all feelings are okay.
53. Shield yourself from bad influences.
54. Stand up for what you believe in.
55. Respect the wishes of others when they say no.
56. Seize every moment and live it fully.
57. Give away or sell anything you haven’t used in the past five years.
58. Never downgrade yourself.
59. Take responsibility for what you think, feel, and do.
60. Pamper yourself.
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61. Never say or do anything abusive to a child.
62. Let yourself be God powered instead of flying solo.
63. Volunteer to help someone in need.
64. Refrain from overindulging in food, drink, and work
65. Finish unfinished business.
66. Be spontaneous.
67. Find a constructive outlet for your anger.
68. Think about abundance instead of lack, because whatever you think about expands.
69. Think of yourself as a survivor, not a victim.
70. Cuddle an animal.
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71. Be open to life.
72. See success as something you already have, not something you must attain.
73. Experience the splendor and awe of a sunset.
74. When you score a base hit, don’t wish it were a home run.
75. Learn to be in the present moment.
76. Instead of believing in miracles, depend on them.
77. Take a child to the circus.
78. Change your attitude and your whole life will change.
79. Never turn your power over to another person.
80. When your heart is at odds with your head, follow your heart.
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81. Always remember that the past is gone forever and the future never comes.
82. Live your life according to what is right for you.
83. Acknowledge your imperfections.
84. Plant a tree and watch it grow.
85. See “friend” instead of “enemy” on the face of strangers.
86. Watch an army of ants build their houses and cities and carry food ten times their weight.
87. Believe in something bigger than yourself.
88. Let the playful child within you come out.
89. Make haste slowly.
90. Work through your problems step by step and one day at a time.
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91. Accept compliments from others so you can see the truth about yourself.
92. Sit on the lawn without worrying about grass stains.
93. Don’t condemn yourself for your imperfections.
94. Do a humility check periodically by loving the truth about yourself.
95. Tell someone you appreciate them.
96. Never live your life according to what is right for someone else.
97. Talk less and listen more.
98. Admit your wrongdoing and forgive yourself for it.
99. Thrive on inner peace instead of on crises.
100. Affirm all the good things about yourself.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:01 am
I read all 100 and actually felt renewed at the end. Ultimately, I think the real message is to “Let Go.”
Thank you so much for sharing these powerful tidbits. They were absolutely BEAUTIFUL.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Thanx a lot! You made my day start in a better way.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
i love this!! merci!
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:02 am
thanks soooo much , these comments are sooo true and really helped me change my perspective on things.
Thank you
April 16th, 2009 at 12:36 am
I’m at the bottom of my life, nothing went right during the past couple of months. This message made me feel much better. Thank you to whoever wrote the message and thank you to whoever photoed the lovely picture.
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
Weldone, give a new breath to your life, not just to remember the past, enjoy the present and your futer will also be very good.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I do agree that all of the above it’s truth. However, the hardest thing to do is to practice what we preach. In other words in real live it’s very hard to do things the right way.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
This will certainly help me through the tough times ahead.
By the way, the photos are great!
July 27th, 2009 at 5:56 am
I believe in what this blog had to say……….I’m going to try to live this out every day from now on! : ) Thank-you.
September 11th, 2009 at 4:36 am
JOY means JESUS OTHERS , YOURSELF
JESUS IS LORD.AND SAVIOR.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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October 22nd, 2009 at 8:15 pm
great anna…keep it up
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:38 am
wow..it really works……It changed my mood totally just by reading it once…
January 26th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
YOU ARE AWESOME!
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:37 am
thnx…..i really needed these…….nw i cn hav a new life…all thnx 2 u…^_^
May 17th, 2010 at 6:59 am
thank you very much.help me a lot…i want to share it with my friends
May 26th, 2010 at 9:21 am
kudos this is very lovely keep up the good work
June 26th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Thank you!
August 14th, 2010 at 3:04 am
Real thinking comes out from real life……here is this.
August 22nd, 2010 at 10:51 am
Felt better after reading these tips – thanks so much. Really helpful.
August 28th, 2010 at 1:50 am
All are interesting / useful Lifestatements. Benjamin Franklin – had mastered a practice : whatever he wanted learn (one thing at time) cultivate it for one month. Then it will become part of your life. Then take one more..cultivate it.. Surprisingly – you can cultivate 12 goodthings(life principles) in a single year. Definitely life will change.
September 4th, 2010 at 3:21 am
Thanks a lot! May God bless you!
November 3rd, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Thank you.
I know how I’m going to try to fix everything now.
November 27th, 2010 at 5:54 am
Thank u……for ever….god bless all!!
December 3rd, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Thank You So Much! These Messages Has Brought A New Light In Me!These Messages Are Magnificent! Thank You Again For Updating!
December 7th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Thankyou so much, i really needed these tips, i get bulled every no and again, but after reading this i know what i’m gunna do i’m gunna stand up to my bully once and for all. I don’t care what they do anymore. The problem is that i always listened to my head not my heart, i am gunna follow my heart from now on. Thanks so much to whoever made this, i have been smiling ever since i read this, now i am gunna change my life for ever!
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December 18th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Thanks a lot, these are really helpful lines…….
January 6th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
My life is in turmoil! I’m trying to let go!
January 9th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
99 for me,
I can accept that I got phobias but flying
A kite is one of them lmao
But most of them sound ok
January 17th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
can someone help tho.
i want to do it all, i love this but i don’t know where to start
i need someone to help me and tell me what to do:(
January 22nd, 2011 at 2:19 am
Thank u…. thank u very much… It is very help full to me to change myself.. and i become a good guy…
January 25th, 2011 at 1:56 am
This module is really helpful for those who feels isolated, negative and pessimistic in their thoughts or deeds.After reading this it helped me a lot to improve myself in thoughts and actions.
Thank you.
February 7th, 2011 at 2:03 am
Great lessons in life
February 11th, 2011 at 4:31 am
Beautiful. Thank you.
February 13th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Ase caso! . Very true stuff bro. Real challenge to stick to that agenda.
February 17th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Thank you very much,,,
really nice,,,
April 3rd, 2011 at 6:46 am
Not very helpful actually. Owning faded jeans and celebrating my birthdays don’t feel like the ultimate wisdom to having a real good life. Who wrote this anyway?
April 17th, 2011 at 9:00 am
ALWAYS FOLLOW IT TO GET HAPPYNESS, SUCCESS AND RESPACT………….
GOOD THINK ………..
GOOD DO ………..
GOOD ACHIEVE …………
June 12th, 2011 at 2:22 am
‘Never take a pill for a pain you need to feel’? what if im having terrible headache??? huhu, jk
but seriously,thank you so much. :’)
June 27th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
I simply love this
I enjoyed reading how all the small things in life and little actions can change your mood or perspective on things .
And doing somethings listed about isn’t hard at all .
Life isn’t easy neither do things come easyly handed to us
We all have to work and strive for what we feel we need to accomplish or get through but with time it all comes and if it didn’t come the way you planned it would then maybe it wasn’t the time or maybe your meant to see it in another way .
You can’t have a rainbow without a little rain .
this was very motivating to me
Thank you for taking your time and writing this . Some of us did need this to remind us all the good things that can keep us going
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:27 am
Thank you so so much for all these massages..now i know the meaning of freedom.
September 21st, 2011 at 3:31 pm
You should make it very obvious that this is a spiritual site and your advice is god centered. I would like to come across one site about being happy that doesn’t talk about god. Look around, he doesn’t exist. You are all believing a story. Good luck with that.