The Power of your Thoughts

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Ten Rules for Being Human

 
Ten Rules for Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott

1.	You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2.	You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3.	There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4.	Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5.	Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6.	"There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7.	Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8.	What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9.	Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10.	You will forget all this.

I am Thankful for Laughter!

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose!
Woody Allen

You are You!

 

Today You are You, that is truer than true.  There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Dr. Seuss.

Be Yourself!

Be yourself.  Everyone else is already taken

Oscar Wilde.

Be Nice!

One of the first lessons our mothers and our teachers always taught us was to "Be Nice!"  Being nice to others seems an obvious way to connect and build relationships.  It also appears to be common sense that the one whom we're being nice to will benefit from our kindness.  A recent study in the Journal of Happiness Studies may give us even more incentive to "be nice".  Participants who were assigned to the study group directed to enact a "compassionate" behavior over the course of one week showed significant sustained increases in self esteem and happiness, over the control group.  These changes were still apparent after six months.  The participants who acted compassionately towards another also had the unexpected benefit of a decrease in negative feelings of anxiety and depressive symptoms.  It's just more evidence to support what we intuitively know - Being Nice Feels Good!

http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4j2j66193202312/

Does Your Life Feel Meaningful?

The two greatest days in your life are the day you were born and the day you realized WHY you were born.   William Barclay