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Helpful tips for your everyday life
Want to be
happy? Have a conversation. Small talk doesn’t cut it. What is important to a
happy life are meaningful conversations. Psychologists have found greater
well-being from spending less time alone and more time talking meaningfully to
others.
To learn about
differences in conversation, researchers had volunteer’s complete personality
and well-being assessments. Then, over four days, they wore a recording device
that sampled 30 seconds sound every 12 ½ minutes, providing more than 20,000
recordings. Researchers identified conversations as trivial or substantive. They
found the happiest participants spent 25% less time alone and 70% more time
talking than the unhappiest, implying deep conversation may give a sense of
meaning in interaction with others which makes people happier.
A few thoughts on how to be Happy
* Always have a
money reserve, save 10% or more of what you earn. If you save 50% of what you
earn you will be wealthy in just a few months. Only up to a certain point can
money increase your happiness, beyond that you’re on your own.
*There are a
million ways to do anything. Learn to take your time…be flexible.
* Realize that
people cannot upset you or make you mad unless you let them. They can't get
inside your mind, unless you let them.
*Keep your word and be dependable
* Eat a proper
diet, exercise, and sleep 6-8 hours
. *Free your heart
from hatred, free your mind from worries
* Live simply, give more expect less,
* Life is time
use it wisely
* You have to hear something 26 times to
remember 60% of it. Hence don’t expect to change people quickly.
AND
THINK ABOUT THIS
Statistically, an
average of 10 people will cry at your funeral.
A big factor which
will determine the number of people who actually attend your funeral will be
the weather! These two stats are very liberating. They mean, people don't give
a darn about what you’re doing. If the odds are iffy as to whether or not
friends and family will even cry at my funeral, and the chances are fifty-fifty
that they duck out anyway before your planted, if the sky happens to cry, then
why spend any time worrying about what they're thinking ? Why be afraid of
rejection? Why be concerned about what the majority thinks? Why be worried
about what the ninety-five percent say, think or do?
Sadly many
financial problems are caused by decisions based on what others will think. “I
can't get the car. I can easily afford...my friends would laugh at me."
"We need to get a big house so the friends and family are impressed and we
can have BIG parties.
Since they
probably won't even show up to your funeral don't make decisions based on what
they think today!
Gigantic
funerals are held and great crowds, sometimes entire nations, mourn for those
people who spent their lives not worrying about what others thought.
Instead of
writing down what you're going to do, write down at the end of the day what you
did do that day. Did I move forward? Did I continue my momentum on the success
curve? Did I do my best?
DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S.
