Tuesdays Happiness

Good Morning Friends,

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Weekday number two has arrived; hopefully Monday got you off to a great beginning for the week. The story today?is about Happiness and Thankfulness for the many blessings we have in our lives. Sometimes we get so busy with the day to day living, we forget about all we do have in our lives. Sometimes the circumstances of life can have an impact on that happiness, but it comes back the choices we make each day.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Your happiness is a gift because it literally brings out the best in you.

Robert Holden

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Test Your Happiness

One of the ways you can test your happiness is by testing your unhappiness. Sound strange?

Okay, here's how it works. (Warning! this is a very powerful exercise so be prepared)

Think of something that would make you unhappy. For example: losing your house, or losing your family. Reflect on that for a moment. What would your feelings be? Sad? Miserable? Lonely? Suicidal?

Now really go for it and try to imagine the thing that would make you unhappy.

When I do this exercise. I imagine losing my family and I really do get to the point of being tearful (okay I admit it, I do get tearful).

Now, come out of the scene you were in and look at what you have. For example: if you pictured losing your family, look at your family now. How does it make you feel?

I always feel extremely grateful and look at them in a different way as if I have been given a second chance with them. This feeling lasts a long time before I slip back into my normal loving self. However, what it does is let me be thankful and never take them for granted.

So it is with life. We are so busy chasing the rainbow of happiness we forget what makes us happy now. We have to get that feeling back.

So many of us are working hard to make money, working long hours, nearly killing ourselves, all in the pursuit of happiness for us and our families when in fact if we loved our families first and loved the job we were doing we would find that happiness here and now and not in the future.

Be Thankful

How many of us have seen something on TV and said, "It really makes you appreciate what you've got?"

I bet most of us have said this. However, how long has it taken us to forget this and get on with our lives and forget what we really have?

For any of our dreams to happen in the future, and they will if we intend them long enough and work at it, we have to be thankful for what we have in the here and now.

I am thankful for my wife, my two boys, my dog, my house, my job, my mom, dad, sisters nieces and nephews and my health and I am thankful too you for reading this.

What are you thankful for?

Take care; try it. BE HAPPY. STAY HAPPY!

Tuesday's Humor:

She married and had 13 children.?Her husband died. She married again and had 7 more children. Again, Her husband died. But, she remarried and this time had 5 more children. Alas, she finally died.

Standing before her coffin, the preacher prayed for her. He thanked the Lord for this very loving woman and said, “Lord, they’re finally together.”

One mourner leaned over and quietly asked her friend, “Do you think he means her first, second or third husband?” The friend replied, “I think he means her legs.”?

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