41 Tips for a Better Life

  1. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
  2. Curb your jealousy. Be happy for others.
  3. Live with the 3 E’s : Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
  4. Play more games.
  5. Read more books than you did in 2009.
  6. Be grateful for what you have, what you can do, and for everything in your life.
  7. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
  8. With every disaster in your life, ask yourself, “will this matter in 5 years?”
  9. Make time to practice meditation. It provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
  10. Dream more while you are awake.
  11. Don’t worry about what hasn’t happened.
  12. Smile and laugh more.
  13. Enjoy the simple pleasures in life.
  14. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
  15. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. While you walk, smile.
  16. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
  17. Get more sleep.
  18. Accept your friends’ mistakes. Accept your mistakes.
  19. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
  20. Don’t have negative thoughts about things you cannot control. Invest your energy in the positive present moment.
  21. Exercise.
  22. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
  23. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
  24. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
  25. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. This will ruin your present happiness.
  26. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class, but the lessons you learn will last forever.
  27. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
  28. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
  29. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
  30. Accept compliments.
  31. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
  32. Forgive everyone for everything.
  33. What other people think of you is none of your business.
  34. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
  35. The best is yet to come.
  36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
  37. Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
  38. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
  39. Do the right thing.
  40. Call your family often.
  41. Each day give something good to others.

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