Twenty
Eight Secrets to a Happy New Year
(various authors) |
• Live beneath your means and
within your seams.
• Return everything you borrow .....currently and in the past
• Donate blood, food, and your time
• Stop blaming other people
• Admit it when you make a mistake
• Give all the clothes you haven't worn in the last three years
to charity.
• Every day do something nice and try NOT to get caught.
• Listen more; talk less
• Every day take a 30 minute walk in your own neighborhood
• Skip two meals a week and give the money to the homeless
• Strive for excellence, not perfection
• Be on time.
• Don't make excuses.
• Don't argue.
• Get organized.
• Be kind to kind people.
• Be even kinder to unkind people.
• Let someone cut ahead of you in line.....any line.
• Take time every day to be alone and learn to enjoy it
• Reread a favorite book.
• Cultivate good manners, and use them liberally.
• Be humble.
• Understand and accept that life isn't always fair.
• Know when to say something, and have the courage to say it.
• Know when to keep your mouth shut.....and do so.
• Don't criticize anyone for 24 hours.
• Learn from the past, plan for the future, and live in the
present.
• Love and accept your friends and family for who they are, not
for who you want them to be.
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