{"id":743,"date":"2005-10-11T03:38:57","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T07:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2005\/10\/11\/743\/"},"modified":"2005-10-11T03:38:57","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T07:38:57","slug":"743","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/743\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>100 Ways to be Happy<\/p>\n<p>1. Never put yourself last.<br \/>2. When you extend a helping hand to one person, be careful not to kick someone else in the teeth.<br \/>3. Always own a pair of old, faded jeans.<br \/>4. Count your blessings every day.<br \/>5. Acknowledge your successes along with your downfalls.<br \/>6. Burn the candle that has been in storage for the last two years.<br \/>7. Strive for progress, not perfection.<br \/>8. Remember, the voice telling you that you cannot do something is always lying.<br \/>9. At least once a day sit and do nothing.<br \/>10. Don&#8217;t close your heart so tightly against life&#8217;s pain that you shut out life&#8217;s blessings.<br \/>11. Celebrate all your birthdays no matter how old you get.<br \/>12. Examine your life for limitations and ask yourself why you put them there.<br \/>13. Plant a tree, pull weeds, or get your hands dirty.<br \/>14. Diminish your wants instead of increasing your needs.<br \/>15. Cry when you feel like it.<br \/>16. Rejoice in other people&#8217;s triumphs.<br \/>17. Don&#8217;t wait for someone else to laugh or express joy.<br \/>18. Forgive yourself for any mistake you make, no matter how big or small.<br \/>19. Keep good company.<br \/>20. Never take a pill for a pain you need to feel.<br \/>21. Use your enthusiasm to put yourself in forward gear and give yourself a spark to move ahead.<br \/>22. Look in the eyes of the ones you love when you are talking to them.<br \/>23. Remember that one is a whole number.<br \/>24. Walk in a summer rain shower without an umbrella.<br \/>25. Do a kind deed for someone else.<br \/>26. Keep your eyes and ears open to get the messages you need from people and events in your daily life.<br \/>27. Be patient.<br \/>28. Eat something green.<br \/>29. Change what you can and leave the rest alone.<br \/>30. Walk hand and hand with truth.<br \/>31. Make laughter an d joy a greater part of your life than anger and grief.<br \/>32. Embrace solitude instead of running from it.<br \/>33. Be zealous, not jealous.<br \/>34. Forgive anyone you&#8217;ve been holding a grudge against.<br \/>35. Slow down and enjoy the present.<br \/>36. Walk in others&#8217; shoes before judging them.<br \/>37. Send yourself a kind message.<br \/>38. Remind yourself that the company you keep is a reflection of what you think of yourself.<br \/>39. Go on a picnic.<br \/>40. Accept your fears, no matter how crazy they seem.<br \/>41. Don&#8217;t let other people&#8217;s opinions shape who you are.<br \/>42. Say a prayer.<br \/>43. Never attribute your accomplishments to luck or chance.<br \/>44. Know when to say no.<br \/>45. Look at the positive side of negative situation.<br \/>46. Remember that you are a spiritual being in a physical body.<br \/>47. Avoid seeking out other people for constant approval, because it make th em the master and you the slave.<br \/>48. Go fly a kite.<br \/>49. Avoid fads and bandwagons.<br \/>50. Accept the things you cannot change.<br \/>51. Look inside instead of outside yourself for answers to life&#8217;s problems.<br \/>52. Remember that all feelings are okay.<br \/>53. Shield yourself from bad influences.<br \/>54. Stand up for what you believe in.<br \/>55. Respect the wishes of others when they say no.<br \/>56. Seize every moment and live it fully.<br \/>57. Give away or sell anything you haven&#8217;t used in the past five years.<br \/>58. Never downgrade yourself.<br \/>59. Take responsibility for what you think, feel, and do.<br \/>60. Pamper yourself.<br \/>61. Never say or do anything abusive to a child.<br \/>62. Let yourself be God powered instead of flying solo.<br \/>63. Volunteer to help someone in need.<br \/>64. Refrain from overindulging in food, drink, and work<br \/>65. Finish unfi nished business.<br \/>66. Be spontaneous.<br \/>67. Find a constructive outlet for your anger.<br \/>68. Think about abundance instead of lack, because whatever you think about expands.<br \/>69. Think of yourself as a survivor, not a victim.<br \/>70. Cuddle an animal.<br \/>71. Be open to life.<br \/>72. See success as something you already have, not something you must attain.<br \/>73. Experience the splendor and awe of a sunset.<br \/>74. When you score a base hit, don&#8217;t wish it were a home run.<br \/>75. Learn to be in the present moment.<br \/>76. Instead of believing in miracles, depend on them.<br \/>77. Take a child to the circus.<br \/>78. Change your attitude and your whole life will change.<br \/>79. Never turn your power over to another person.<br \/>80. When your heart is at odds with your head, follow your heart.<br \/>81. Always remember that the past is gone forever and the future never comes.<br \/>82. Live your life according to what is right for you.<br \/>83. Acknowledge your imperfections.<br \/>84. Plant a tree and watch it grow.<br \/>85. See &#8220;friend&#8221; instead of &#8220;enemy&#8221; on the face of strangers.<br \/>86. Watch an army of ants build their houses and cities and carry food ten times their weight.<br \/>87. Believe in something bigger than yourself.<br \/>88. Let the playful child within you come out.<br \/>89. Make haste slowly.<br \/>90. Work through your problems step by step and one day at a time.<br \/>91. Accept compliments from others so you can see the truth about yourself.<br \/>92. Sit on the lawn without worrying about grass stains.<br \/>93. Don&#8217;t condemn yourself for your imperfections.<br \/>94. Do a humility check periodically by loving the truth about yourself.<br \/>95. Tell someone you appreciate them.<br \/>96. Never live your life according to what is right for someone else.<br \/>97. Talk less and listen more.<br \/>98. Admit your wrongdoing and forgive yourself for it.<br \/>99. Thrive on inner peace instead of on crises.<br \/>100. Affirm all the good things about yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown author<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 Ways to be Happy 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. 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