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October 2009 
What is happiness?
Posted on Jun 30th, 2008
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Flowerchild
Flowerchild
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for June 30, 2008:
This post was sent to me and I think it answers the question for me about what is happiness. Change the word winning to happy.
If you want to have a "winning" (Happy) day,
there are Twenty-One "More Thans" you have to do . . .
You have to listen more than you talk.
You have to give more than you get.
You have to smile more than you frown.
You have to think "we" more than you think "me."
You have to agree more than you disagree.
You have to compliment more than you criticize.
You have to laugh more than you cry.
You have to clean up more than you mess up.
You have to be positive more than you're negative.
You have to be fascinated more than you're frustrated.
You have to "walk the talk" more than you "talk the talk."
You have to be accepting more than rejecting.
You have to see the cup "half-full" more than you see it "half-empty."
You have to help more than you hinder.
You have to believe in yourself more than you doubt yourself.
You have to work more than you whine.
You have to do more than you don't.
You have to act more than you react.
You have to save more than you squander.
You have to care more than you ever have.
You have to love more than you ever have.
-- Author Unknown
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Denise,
Thanks for the reminder about perspective. For some time now, I continue to work on the listening part, though I believe I do better now than ever. It is good to smile. With kids, it's good to remember the compliments, more than the criticisms, and I try to focus more in that direction with some success.
I will try to remember to be grateful for the clean-ups (of the kid's messes or even my dh's messes). And being fascinated when my 7 yr old interrupts my “work”, instead of frustrated, would be a good reminder for me any day, as that is the source of MOST of my stress in life. As our business is environmentally related, I learned long ago that it isn't about talking but being a living example.
Now, remembering to believe in myself more than I doubt myself is always a challenge. And I do try not to whine - ever. What is, is. It would be best to learn not to react so much, I can be more emotional than I would wish but recently I saw the most modern version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and appreciated more than ever before; how emotions make us human and the lack of them would be so deadening and inhuman.
Always caring and loving are never wasted.
Deborah
I Love It!
See…Wisdom is so simple ;-)