Happy Tips

Happy Tips

• Ways to happiness and spiritual well being
• It's more important to be happy than to be right.
• You can either be happy, or unhappy. Choose happy.
• Live life with an open hand, an open mind, and an open heart.
• Compliment three people everyday.
• Watch a sunrise.
• Be the first to say "Hello."
• Don’t waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
• Treat everyone as you want to be treated.
• Never give up on anybody; miracles happen.
• Forget the Jones’s.
• Remember someone’s name.
• Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
• Be tough-minded, but tender hearted.
• Be kinder than you have to be.
• Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
• Keep your promises.
• Learn to show cheerfulness even when you don’t feel it.
• Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years.
• Leave everything better than you found it.
• Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do.
• When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
• Don’t rain on other people’s parades.
• Live beneath your means.
• Keep some things to yourself and don’t promote havoc by backstabbing people you love.
• Stop Rushing Past Life
• Let Go!

Alternative Happy Tips

• Whatever it is, if you really want to eat it, eat it!
• Never piss off anyone who has access to you when you are asleep.
• Never argue with a pregnant woman.

Easy Step to Improve your Mental Fitness

When we look at averages for the US, our mental health as we age looks bleak. More than 20% of the population over 85 suffers from some form of dementia. Is this genetic fate, or can lifestyle factors influence how our brains age? Looking to other cultures and peoples, we see that some lifestyles allow for high level mental functioning well beyond 85. The average aging process does not have to be your destiny if you take the following steps:

Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 10-15 minutes a day
Here's How:
Do Crosswords, Sudoku and Puzzles
There has been much in the news about the benefits of crossword puzzles, suduku and other mental games. Research has shown the remaining engaged in cognitive activities will help to prevent memory loss. The problem with these activities are that they are both sedentary and solitary. So while crossword puzzles may help somewhat to protect your mental functioning, exercising with a friend will give you much more benefit for your effort.

Cultivate Relationships

Relationships help you to stay engaged with the world. Relationships are complex to maintain and challenge your mental functioning on many levels. Engage with people throughout your life and your brain will thank you for it.

Live with Meaning and Purpose

Interviews with healthy, long-lived people usually reveal an individual with particular drive and enthusiasm. Find a passion, become involved, and really devote yourself to a cause. You will meet people, remain active and have something for your brain to 'chew' on all day long.
Exercise

Exercise not only keeps your body fit and your heart healthy, it improves mental functioning. Walking two hours a week can have benefits. More exercise brings even more benefits. Exercise enhances memory and improves thinking. In short, exercising your body makes your brain work better.


Pay Attention to Your Diet
Diet can be very important to limiting brain aging. Antioxidants help to prevent damage to cells in the body. Antioxidants are found in vegetables, grains, fish, and some beans. Wine and dark chocolate also contain high levels of antioxidants. Antioxidants work against free radicals, which play a role in the aging of the body. Vitamins C and E, as well as magnesium and zinc, are all antioxidants. Try a diet high in a wide variety of vegetables, as well as wine and chocolate in moderation.

Top 10 Reasons To Smile

Smiling is a great way to make yourself stand out while helping your body to function better. Smile to improve your health, your stress level, and your attractiveness.

1) Smiling makes us attractive.

We are drawn to people who smile. There is an attraction factor. We want to know a smiling person and figure out what is so good. Frowns, scowls and grimaces all push people away -- but a smile draws them in.

2) Smiling Changes Our Mood
Next time you are feeling down, try putting on a smile. There's a good chance you mood will change for the better. Smiling can trick the body into helping you change your mood.

3) Smiling is Contagious

When someone is smiling they lighten up the room, change the moods of others, and make things happier. A smiling person brings happiness with them. Smile lots and you will draw people to you.

4) Smiling Relieves Stress
Stress can really show up in our faces. Smiling helps to prevent us from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed. When you are stressed, take time to put on a smile. The stress should be reduced and you'll be better able to take action.

5) Smiling Boosts Your Immune System
Smiling helps the immune system to work better. When you smile, immune function improves possibly because you are more relaxed. Prevent the flu and colds by smiling.

6) Smiling Lowers Your Blood Pressure
When you smile, there is a measurable reduction in your blood pressure. Give it a try if you have a blood pressure monitor at home. Sit for a few minutes, take a reading. Then smile for a minute and take another reading while still smiling. Do you notice a difference?

7) Smiling Releases Endorphins, Natural Pain Killers and Serotonin
Studies have shown that smiling releases endorphins, natural pain killers, and serotonin. Together these three make us feel good. Smiling is a natural drug.

8) Smiling Lifts the Face and Makes You Look Younger
The muscles we use to smile lift the face, making a person appear younger. Don't go for a face lift, just try smiling your way through the day -- you'll look younger and feel better.

9) Smiling Makes You Seem Successful
Smiling people appear more confident, are more likely to be promoted, and more likely to be approached. Put on a smile at meetings and appointments and people will react to you differently.

10) Smiling Helps You Stay Positive
Try this test: Smile. Now try to think of something negative without losing the smile. It's hard. When we smile our body is sending the rest of us a message that "Life is Good!" Stay away from depression, stress and worry by smiling.