21 Keys to a Happy Life

“taken from my life experiences” 

1)    Compliment three people every day…try to do this at each food setting…

2)    Watch a sunrise.

3)    Be the first to say "Hello."

4)    Live beneath your means.

5)    Treat everyone as you want to be treated.

6)    Never give up on anybody; miracles happen.

7)    Forget the Jones's.

8)    Remember someone's name.

9)    Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.

10)  Be tough-minded, but tender hearted.

11)  Be kinder than you have to be.

12)  Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

13)  Keep your promises and promise only what you intend to keep…… J

14)  Learn to show cheerfulness even when you don't feel it.

15)  Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years.

16)  Leave everything better than you found it.

17)  Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.

18)  When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone's day.

19)  Don't rain on other people's parades.

20)  Don't waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

21)  Keep some things to yourself and don't promote havoc by backstabbing people you love or anyone else for that matter.

WORDS TO LIVE BY.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Don Wilder

No one ever excused his way to success.
Dave Del Dotto

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George W. Carver