40 Tips to a Better Life

My friend Shalum sent this to me. This is some­thing worth read­ing, so I’m post­ing this for all you to read. I per­son­ally love tips num­ber 8, 14, 18, 20, 25, 27, and 30.

1. Take a 10–30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ulti­mate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 min­utes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.

3. Buy a DVR and tape your late night shows and get more sleep.

4. When you wake up in the morn­ing com­plete the fol­low­ing state­ment, ‘My pur­pose is to__________ today.’

5. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthu­si­asm, and Empathy.

6. Play more games (phys­i­cal) and read more books than you did in 2008.

7. Make time to prac­tice med­i­ta­tion, yoga, tai chi, and prayer. They pro­vide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.

8. Spend time with peo­ple over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is man­u­fac­tured in plants.

11. Drink green tea and plenty of water.. Eat blue­ber­ries, wild Alaskan salmon, broc­coli, almonds & walnuts.

12. Try to make at least three peo­ple smile each day.

13. Clear clut­ter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flow­ing energy into your life.

14. Don’t waste your pre­cious energy on gos­sip, energy vam­pires, issues of the past, neg­a­tive thoughts or things you can­not con­trol. Instead invest your energy in the pos­i­tive present moment.

15. Real­ize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Prob­lems are sim­ply part of the cur­ricu­lum that appear and fade away like alge­bra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

16. Eat break­fast like a king, lunch like a prince and din­ner like a col­lege kid with a maxed out charge card.

17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vam­pires away.

18. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good..

19. Life is too short to waste time hat­ing anyone.

20. Don’t take your­self so seri­ously. No one else does.

21. You don’t have to win every argu­ment. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

23. Don’t com­pare your life to oth­ers’. You have no idea what their jour­ney is all about.

24. No one is in charge of your hap­pi­ness except you.

25. Frame every so-called dis­as­ter with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’

26. For­give every­one for everything.

27. What other peo­ple think of you is none of your business.

28. GOD heals almost everything.

29. How­ever good or bad a sit­u­a­tion is, it will change.

30. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

31. Get rid of any­thing that isn’t use­ful, beau­ti­ful or joyful.

32. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

33. The best is yet to come.

34. No mat­ter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

35. Do the right thing!

36. Call your fam­ily often. (Or email them to death!!!)

37. Each night before you go to bed com­plete the fol­low­ing state­ments: I am thank­ful for __________. Today I accom­plished _________.

38. Remem­ber that you are too blessed to be stressed.

39. Enjoy the ride. Remem­ber this is not Dis­ney World and you cer­tainly don’t want a fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy the ride.

40. Please For­ward this to every­one you care about. May your trou­bles be less, May your bless­ings be more, May noth­ing but hap­pi­ness come through your door!