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Happiness is a choice, not a result:

1. I let each day be a new beginning.

2. Every day I really “pay attention” to my experience.

3. Every day I slow down to wait for slow ideas to catch up with speedy emotions.

4. Every day I remember that happiness is a choice I make, not something that happens to me. This is not easy to believe, but always is true, I am convinced. Attitude is everything!

5. Every day I do 3 things that “need doing.”

6. Every day I eat good food and get some exercise.

7. Every day I remember that butter, hamburgers, Coke, fries, sugar, and corn additives are examples of junk that is not real food.

8. Every day I read something that requires effort.

9. Every day I read something that cheers me up.

10. Everyday I indulge in some kind of creativity.

11. Every day I try to have fun and see something new.

12. Every day I practice, “Do it now,” rather than put off little unpleasant chores.

13. Every day I follow Ben Franklin’s advice, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.”

14. Every day I make a point to really notice that it is good to be alive in spite of problems!

15. Every day I use “connection and detachment.”

Aug 11-13

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at 1,000,000 miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.

Our galaxy itself contains a 100,000,000,000 stars.
It’s a 100,000 light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just 3,000 light years wide.

We’re 30,000 light years from galactic central point.
We go ‘round every 200,000,000 years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
12 million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.

Monty Python, “The Galaxy Song”