Handbook

I'm usually anti-email forwards. I'll be the first to admit when I see one, I just delete it. Note to self. A few weeks ago my cousin Clare emailed me one, and she knows how I am, so I thought it must me worth while. It titled "Handbook for 2010," and included about ten things to go by on the topics of Health, Personality, Society, and Life. Some of the suggestions were kind of obvious, but some I really enjoyed and thought I would share with you.

{Health}

Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants..

Read more books than you did in 2009.

Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day

{Personality}

Don't over do. Keep your limits.

Dream more while you are awake

Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree...

{Society}

Each day give something good to others.

Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.

Try to make at least three people smile each day.

Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

{Life}

Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

God heals everything.

However good or bad a situation is, it will change..

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

When you awake alive in the morning, thank God for it.

I put my tip-top favorites in bold.