Good Advice...

1. Take a 10 to 30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It's the ultimate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 5 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.

3. Turn off your TV. Better yet, cancel service altogether.

4. When you wake up in the morning, complete the following statement, My purpose is to____________ today.

5. Accept that you will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

6. Read more books than you did in 2008.

7. Make time to practice meditation and prayer: faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.

8. Stand for something.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow from a plant & less that are manufactured in one.

11. Exercise (!) and drink plenty of water every day.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

13. Clear the clutter from your house, your car, your desk. It will clear your mind too.

14. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control.

15. Realize that decisions help you start. But it's discipline that helps you finish.

16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

17. Smile and laugh more.

18. Whether you think life is fair or not doesn't change that it's still good.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

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

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

23. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

26. Forgive everyone for everything. Or at least try.

27. What other people think of you is none of your business.

28. God heals everything, though not necessarily the way you would like -- and there might be scars.

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

30. Eliminate saying things like 'I can't' and 'hopefully' from your vocabulary.

31. Stop procrastinating! When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.

32. Money doesn't change a man. It unmasks him.

33. The best is yet to come.

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

35. Do the right thing!

36. Call your family often.

37. Each night before you go to bed, complete the following statements: I am thankful for ____. Today I accomplished ____.

38. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

39. People will forget how quickly or slowly you did a job - but they will remember how well you did it.

40. In life, build your integrity - not your image--Are you the same person no matter who you're with? Do you make decisions that are best for others when another choice would benefit you? The measure of your character is what you do when you think no one else is looking. Image promises much but produces little. Integrity never disappoints.