DO SOMETHING NICE FOR SOMEONE ELSE
The BIG LESSON of the past few years, learned by me and my kids, is to express gratitude regularly. Through words and through actions: show people how you feel. Always express your gratitude.
The assignment: Be generous, considerate and kind to others today.
I have few "rules" in my house but one is to treat people the way you want to be treated. Especially if you have something nice to say don't keep it to yourself! Give compliments out loud and (try to) keep complaints inside. I go through every day encouraging kind words, letting people go ahead of me in traffic, picking groceries off high shelves for smaller elderly people, regularly say "please" and "thank you" and appreciating the wonderful people who populate my days. Today I plan to acknowledge those lovely people in my life, those I (sadly) don't get to see every day, via snail mail. I've developed some note cards and I'm going to share them!
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Like Bree Hester, I believe you choose to be happy. Sure there are bad (out of your control) things that happen, but how you handle them is completely up to you. Your choices are your responsibility - there is no blame, no shame, no nothing but accountability. Your attitude is your decision. I choose to be happy. Happy within the context of not wearing the proverbial rose-coloured glasses or any expectation that those who populate my life have made the same choice :) Last October, Bree put together 31 DAYS TO A HAPPIER YOU and, armed with her PDF, I'm using March - that dreary time between winter and spring that seems to drag on forever - to make the conscious choice to be happy every day this month!
