Recipe for a Good Life

My fiancée (smile) forwarded this to me maybe two years ago now, and I have had it on my bulletin board ever since. It is a constant reminder of how to live & enjoy life.

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. Reflect on your life with just you. Buy a lock if you have to!

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

4) Try to make at least three people smile each day.

5) 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.

6) Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college student with a maxed out credit card.

7) Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

8) Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

9) Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

10) You are not so important that you have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

11) Make peace with your past so you don't spoil the present.

12) Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

13) No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

14) Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?'

15) Forgive everyone for everything.

16) What other people think of you is none of your business.

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

18) Your job wont take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch!

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

20) Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed. When you are feeling down, start listing your many positives in life. You'll be smiling before you know it.

I hope you'll live by these, because they are so true!