100 Tips to a Happy Life
Created | Updated Apr 5, 2003
- Love What You Do.
- Get a good start. Wake up energized, motivated and excited about the day ahead.
- Smile. No one has can to stand up to a hearty smile.
- Have belief in yourself.
- Make anyone you know feel ten-feet-tall.
- Never underestimate the value of goodwill.
- It might not be a good idea to always tell someone they are wrong. Instead, provide your own opinions (as your own) even if they conter's someone else's.
- Always listen. Unhappy people seem to talk to much and listen too little.
- Enjoy what ever it is that you do... sadly, seven out of ten people don't.
- Be trustworthy, reliable and honest with yourself and everyone you deal with.
- Try not to make promises you can't keep. And keep every promise you make.
- Whenever you do something, always visualize a successful outcome.
- If you want to get ahead, think ahead.
- Avoid Negative Vocabulary. Words like "never", "can't", "won't", and "impossible" only make you feel bad.
- Feel good about what you say and do, and what you say and do will sound and feel good.
- Never be afraid to say you don't know.
- Apply the win-win principle in life. Whatever happens, make sure the outcome is one that everyone involved is happy or satisfied with. If this doesn't reach an agreement, have an alternative win-win option.
- Sacrificing little things may lead to to bigger things.
- Try not to hurt anyone else's feelings just to get what you really want.
- Send friends and relatives a Christmas card.
- 20 Develop self-worth. Value yourself. Realize you are a special individual.
- Be good to yourself. Treat yourself with loving care.
- Appreciate yourself for a change. All our lives we've been appreciating other people, but rarely seem to be doing that to ourselves.
- Don't be afraid to be the best. Someone has to be the best, why not let it be you?
- Learn to love yourself. It's whom you'll be with all the time, for the rest of your life.
- Don't try too hard. Too much effort is stressful.
- Work smart, not hard.
- Have a healthy lifestyle. You do your best when you feel at your best.
- Never look down on anyone.
- Pay yourself on the back - don't wait for others to do it.
- Don't be a slave to the opinion of others.
- Show respect to others, and you shall gain respect.
- Never underestimate yourself. You've probably been doing it for too long already.
- Be at peace with yourself.
- Have confidence in your own judgement. 'If you think you can, or think you can't - you're absolutely right." - Henry Ford.
- Blaming achieves nothing.
- Turn every problem onto a challene, and every challenge into an oppurtunity.
- Beware of arguements. They can lead to threats (which invite counter-threats).
- Keep calm. Never lose your temper.
- Make sure your actions are always positive and not damaging.
- Be generous. The secret of living is giving.
- Don't afriad to be a know-all, but make sure you never look or sound like one.
- Enjoy learning. It's great to be good at something, and it's great learning to be good at something.
- Become a tireless researcher.
- Smile when you dial a telephone number. You'll sound genuinely cheerful while speaking.
- Don't worry about the future. Start planning for it. In fact, don't worry about anything at all. It is not a solution and achieves nothing.
- Believe that you can be the best.
- Be brave. Expect change, and welcome it.
- Be imaginative. "Imagination is more powerful than knowledge." - Albert Einstein.
- Relax. You're at your best creatively when you're relaxed.
- Think laterally. Lateral thinking solves problems.
- Look for ideas everywhere. ideas can be found in exexpected places.
- Be patient. Good ideas are not born instantly. They're developed with action.
- Don't be discouraged if you have a bad idea. Bad ideas can stimulate good ones.
- If you have an idea, act on it.
- Be prepared to look at and do things differently.
- Be optimistic, without loosing sight of reality.
- Set goals. Goals have to set to be achived.
- Don't limit your potential. You can achieve anything if you believe.
- Practice being confident until it becomes a habit.
- Appreciate the humor of other people, and show your appreciation.
- Dare to take risks.
- Think positively and you will feel positively about yourself.
- Cultivate a positive attitude, and your personality will spark.
- Tell yourself you are good at what you do.
- Dont be discouraged by pessimism of others. "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot.
- Dont blame anyone else if you're not happy.
- Always look at the bright side, it never hurts.
- Don't focus on problems all the time. If you do, you'll get them all the time.
- Don't live on the past. It's a faraway planet.
- Don't think too much before you act. you can generate fear if you think too much.
- Fear nothing. "The only thing to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Don't fear strangers - they're only friends you haven't met yet.
- Feed you mind with positive thoughts and you will build positive energy. Positive energy invites positive experieces.
- Eliminate fear and replace it with excitement.
- Dont wait for miracles. Make them happen.
- Follow your gut feelings. Intuition can often lead you in the right direction.
- If you want to feel good, do good.
- Give praise and encouragement to everyone around you (including yourself).
- Get used to being happy. being miserable is a habit and being happy is a habit. Take you pick.
- Cheerfulness is a great weapon for fighting frustration, boredom, guilt, envy and much more.
- Be your own best friend.
- Let go of any disturbing past, and live here now!
- Use your sense of humor appropriately as much as you can.
- "Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Accept praise and compliments from people.
- Offer your help freely, and you will get help when you need it.
- Do it. If you don't do it, it won't happen.
- Look for the good in everyone you meet. It saves a lot of trouble.
- Put happiness into life, and you get happiness.
- Reward yourself generously and regularly. Do you things you want to do.
- Try not to pre-judge.
- Always focus on the good things in life and how special you are.
- Live today as if it's the rest of your life. You are dying the minute you are born - so do what you have to NOW!
- Make each day the best ever.
- Feel good about yourself and you'll attract success.
- Don't worry about failure, they're just an obstacle waiting to be challenged and completed.
- Don't be discouraged when things don't turn our as you planned.
- When you make money, enjoy it!
- Believe in something, and you will have the power to break all barriers and limitations.
