Advice for a happy life

Following are the tips for transforming your life to a happy one.

• Take a 10-30 minute walk every day and while you walk, smile.
   
• Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
   
• When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, “My purpose is to … today.”
   
• Live with the 3 E’s: Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy, and the 3 F’s: Faith, Family, Friends.
   
• Spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
   
• Dream more while you are awake.
   
• Try to make at least three people smile each day.
   
• Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn, pass all your tests. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
   
• Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
   
• Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
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• Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
   
• Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
   
• You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagreements.
   
• Make peace with your past, so it won’t mess up the present.
   
• Don’t compare your life with others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
   
• Burn the candles, use the nice sheets. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
   
• No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
   
• Forgive everyone for everything.
   
• What other people think of you is none of your business.
   
• Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
   
• However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
   
• Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will stay in touch.
   
• Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful, or joyful.
   
• The best is yet to come… Believe.
   
• No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.
   
• Do the right thing!
   
• Call your family often.
   
• Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: “I am thankful for…” – “Today I accomplished…”
   
• Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
   
• Enjoy the ride. Remember that this is not Disney World and you certainly don’t want a fast pass. Make the most of it and enjoy the ride.hea

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1. Forgive yourself and others
   Life is too short to hold on to regrets, grudges, miscommunications, or disappointments. Free yourself by forgiving and letting go of any negative energy you're holding on to about yourself or others. The process of forgiving yourself and others will result in your feeling light and free.
   
   
2. Practice gratitude and appreciation
   Whatever you focus on grows. So, when you focus on every thing in your life, you feel grateful for all and appreciate the wonderful people, the universe hands you more to feel grateful about.
   
3. Live each day as though it were your last
   Then you will be living in a state of love and unconditional contribution. What would you say to the people you care about? Say it.
   
4. Meditate or pray
   You open up a direct link between yourself and the spiritual realm when you meditate or pray. You will come closer to your creator, experience peace, clarity and joy, as well as a perfectly balanced state between your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual realms.
   
5. Suspend judgment
   One judges another to feel less guilty about one's own misgivings. Judgment energy is dense, dark and heavy. On the other hand, unconditional acceptance is light and free. Let go of judging and criticising yourself and others. Everyone is on a different path and some appear to be farther ahead on their path than others. Neither path is better nor worse than another. Raise your consciousness to one of acceptance.
   
6. View every experience as a gift
   If you look back at occurrences in your life, you can easily see how even the worst situations you experienced in your life ended up teaching you invaluable lessons and therefore resulted in putting you in perfect place for your continuing development. When you view every experience - the good, the bad, and the ugly as a gift, life flows more like a gentle, inspiring breeze.
   
7. Stay consciously aware of all your thoughts and feelings
   It is easy to fall into negative patterns of complaining and feeling like a victim of society and your life. When you catch yourself in the negative zone, don't feel badly about it and bother yourself too much. Simply choose to switch your consciousness to one of gratitude and positive thinking.
   
8. Treat your physical body as your temple
   Your body is the only vehicle you've been given for this ride called life. The better you care for your body by eating a healthy, balanced diet, and by implementing a regular exercise routine, and by giving your body the rest it requires, the more you will experience increased energy, vitality, joy and freedom.
   
9. View the world through the eyes of a child
   Children are enthralled by the process of observing and experiencing the wonder and beauty in every single thing. They can't get enough. Look at every tree, sunset, cloud and human being as a child would and you'll be in a constant state of wonder, joy, surprise, acceptance and enlightenment.
   
10. Give love from your heart
    It's all about love. Love is the highest form of human emotion. Allow yourself to receive love unconditionally from others. Give love from your heart unconditionally to yourself and to others. You will experience the highest state of consciousness possible.

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The secret of happiness

A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for 40 days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. It was there that the wise man lived.

Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the main room of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went,
people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing soft music, and there was a table covered with platters of the most delicious food in that part of the world. The wise man conversed with everyone, and the boy had to wait for two hours before it was his turn to be given the man's attention.

The wise man listened attentively to the boy's explanation of why he had come, but told him that he didn't have time just then to explain the secret of happiness. He suggested that the boy look around the palace and return in two hours.

"Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something", said the wise man, handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. "As you wander around, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill".
The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace, keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. After two hours, he returned to the room where the wise man was.

"Well", asked the wise man, "Did you see the Persian tapestries that are hanging in my dining hall? Did you see the garden that it took the master gardener ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?"

The boy was embarrassed, and confessed that he had observed nothing. His only concern had been not to spill the oil that the wise man had entrusted to him.

"Then go back and observe the marvels of my world", said the wise man. "You cannot trust a man if you don't know his house".

Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and returned to his exploration of the palace, this time observing all of the works of art on the ceilings and the walls. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around him, the beauty of the flowers, and the taste with which everything had been selected. Upon returning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.

"But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?" asked the wise man. Looking down at the spoon he held, the boy saw that the oil was gone.

"Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you", said the wisest of wise men. "The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon".

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