Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. –Earl Nightingale
Count Your Joys
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. –Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hard To Stay Positive
Have you found it hard to stay positive when those around you are negative? It can certainly be difficult to keep a positive attitude when the people you’re with have a negative attitude. The advice I’ve often heard is to separate yourself from those negative people. What If You Can’t Get Away Getting away from […]
Don’t Waste Time On Yesterday
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is […]
Setting You Straight
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. –Denis Waitley
Where Happiness Resides
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. –George Santayana
Are Your Beliefs Working For You?
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. –Tony Robbins
Michael J. Fox – Incurable Optimist
I find it impressive when I see someone facing a difficult challenge but finding a way to turn that challenge around. Michael J. Fox is one of those people. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease 18 years ago, Fox remains positive and optimistic. He’s written a new book called Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable […]
Give Some Happiness
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t Let The Stop Lights Stop You
Now, I’m not saying you should be running red lights when you’re driving. I’m saying don’t let the stop lights stop you from being happy. Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m writing this piece of advice to myself more than anyone. Traffic lights are one of my pet peeves. I find myself getting very frustrated by […]