Get out of your own head and bring a smile to someone else.
Think every day how you can please someone else – bring a smile to their face, make them happy, lift them up.
In doing so, you will be curing the blues and improving your mood.
The more we obsess, the worse it gets.
The more we focus on uplifting others, the happier we are.
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That’s the title of a current hit song called “Truth Hurts” by the artist Lizzo.
It’s not about texting but makes a great point about it.
Tell it straight to my face.
That’s a workaround for spending too much time on our digital devices.
Look for opportunities to not text and say it face-to-face or at least with the benefit of the receiver hearing your voice.
No one wants to give up their digital life, but there are ways to keep it real by looking for opportunities to tell it straight to someone’s face.
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I wanted to be in television so badly I sent audition tapes to the three major network affiliates in Philadelphia for years to no avail.
Not once did I get a rejection letter or a letter even acknowledging my tapes.
But the gift in not getting what I wanted was that it continually showed me how badly I wanted to work on the air in television – so I continued.
One day, year’s later my tape happened to arrive on the desk of the program director of the ABC affiliate and he picked up the phone and called me.
“It’s just a two-day gig. Nothing more. You’ll be a booth announcer”.
Once I got my foot in the door, well – you know what happened then.
Not getting what I wanted taught me how badly I wanted it and drove me to continue pursuit of my dream.
Had I become discouraged, I would have learned I was less motivated.
The question is: how badly do you want it?
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One, ask what’s the worst thing that could happen.
Two, get prepared to accept the worst.
Three, change it if you can.
99% of the time what we fear never happens and 1% of the time it doesn’t happen the way we fear.
Is that worth all the pain and suffering from worry?
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Openness and empowerment are two qualities that people cannot resist.
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Every day is the beginning of a new chapter in your life.
No need to hang onto the past with all its worries or fears.
No need to fear the future that hasn’t happened yet.
Breaking life into one day at a time helps to rejuvenate us and free us from the shackles that have been holding us back the previous day.
New chapter, new opportunity.
Instead of walking around with the cumulative effect of everything that may have gone wrong or worried us, start each new day fresh – with a clean canvass – upon which to create a better day today.
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90% of what happens to us every day is good.
10% of it is bad.
Yet we spend 90% of our time focusing on that 10%.
To guarantee a more positive attitude, focus the majority of your day on the 90% of the things that happen that are good.
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We can’t.
But few among us don’t fritter away wasted time trying.
The sure way to an unhappy life is to try to change another person.
Accept them with what you perceive as flaws and all and help them without being judgmental or with a goal to transform them because in the end no human has ever permanently changed another person – not with power over them, money or influence.
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Forgive them and forget them.
Forgive them so that the anger that they provoke does not turn you into them.
And forget them because no good can come from embracing or engaging anyone you feel is your enemy.
The power of forgiveness has two very potent benefits.
One, it lets you rid yourself of mean people.
Two, it gives you the gift of letting go.
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As George Bernard Shaw said “To have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.”
It is why busy people are less unhappy even though they carry their problems with them.
The more we worry about worry, the more worried we become.
There is no need to obsess over fears and worry because that just multiplies the problem and offers no solution.
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