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Capturing this here:

The Happiness Manifesto
...started as an experiment in the UK where a number of people did all the things in the Happiness Manifesto and then measured their level of personal happiness to see whether practicing the manifesto helped them be happier. Here is a summary and the list of things to do.

From the Genuine Curiosity blog @
http://www.genuinecuriosity.com/genuinecuriosity/2005/11/the_happiness_m.html

10-item list

1. Get physical. Engage in half an hour of exercise three times a week
2. Count your blessings. At the end of each day, reflect on at least five things you are grateful for.
3. Talk time. Have an hour-long – uninterrupted – conversation with your partner or closest friend each week.
4. Plant something. Even if it’s a window box or pot. And, you must keep it alive!
5. Cut your TV viewing by half.
6. Smile at and/or say hello to someone you don’t know. At least once each day.
7. Phone a friend. Make contact with a friend or relation you have not talked to for a while and arrange to meet up.
8. Have a good laugh at least once a day.
9. Every day make sure you give yourself a treat. Take time to really enjoy this.
10. Daily kindness. Do an extra good turn for someone each day.

on a camping weekend with my girlfriends in July or August. That’s the first step.

Never Stop Learning (expose yourself to new things and experiment)

Surround yourself with those who can help you (people like to help)

Dream big dreams (and why shouldn’t you?)

Recharge your batteries (r & r = loving yourself)

Go the extra mile (if it is something you are passionate about)

Finish what you start (it feels really good when you do)

I know what I want, where to start, and how to get from A to B”.

Now, it is time to keep an attitude that will propel me forward. Now is the time to stay true to this passage:

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

motivates to create, deliver, produce, build-on, work towards, and gets me closer to a desired end result. Those motivational pieces are what I’d like to capture here!

To begin with, I found this piece of advice from a blog today:

FIRST

It’s not drive, it’s not motivation, it’s not lack of passion that keeps people from doing what they want. It’s not knowing where to start, or how to get from A to B. That’s the single biggest reason people don’t take action to make their dreams a reality.

to a state park that will be fun! We will go with some family members.

I realized I have actually been doing “do!” a little bit better lately. See, I tend to be a thinker/planner and not so much a do-er sometimes. But lately I have some “do”s to celebrate:

1. Neti. I bought a neti pot and have been trying neti. I got the idea, read a little online, went and did it.
2. Treats. Made treats for Xmas. Unfortunately the quality of every batch mysteriously went downhill. Can’t say what they were because of Lilyfairy ;)
3. Shows. Went to three shows this month. One of them I can qualify under the “do” goal – the other two were organized by other people.

I had the chance to go scrap, and I did it instead of sitting at home on my butt.

I heard about this teenager recently who biked from Minnesota to Washington D.C. to deliver a petition about a cause she loved. And I somewhat cynically but somewhat wistfully said to my BF, “That’s what I love about teenagers. They don’t know how hard things are yet, so they just do them.” Well, I started to remember my teenage years, and the things I’ve done since, and the things I haven’t done because I’ve talked myself out of them. I’ve been scared people would think I was strange or that the idea wouldn’t work out. Or I had a bunch of enthusiasm in the beginning of working out the idea and then panicked that if I went through with it I would have a lot of work on my hands. Or I haven’t been sure how to go about executing the idea because I don’t really currently have a lot of community connections like I did when I was a teenager. Well, when I was 17/18 and doing my Girl Scout Gold Award project, I just got on the phone. I got in the car with my troop-mates. We went. We asked. We self-promoted. Our project was successful. Why can’t I do the same at 29? What happened? So this is a goal about being brave and about putting my ideas into action.

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