1. Live life on purpose!
When we are children the world is our jewel, everything is open to us and wonderful. As children we have no bias, things just ARE. During the progression of time we integrate with the world around us and find there is bias. Bias becomes a heavy part of our personality, weather we know it or not. We develop prejudice which limits our ability to live.
Instead of Living the total experience Bias changes our involvement in the operation of day to day living.
I say to you, question your answer when making decisions about experiences. Always as yourself what is the worst that can happen to you by being part of an experience. If it will cause you bodily harm, think twice, but walking down the street can cause you harm.Will it cause embarrassment, think about your high school yearbook picture. I am not advocating any harm, but life is what it is. Experience new things that will make your life expand.
2. Smile, even if you don’t feel like it.
You ever see someone who hardly ever smiles. No one want to be around them. Conversely someone who smile frequently attract good things and people to themselves. If you are perceived as a individual who feels good about things then people want to share in your joy. That shared joy is infectious. Just by smiling will make others smile which will make you feel better and want to smile.
3. Gratitude, give thanks.
The way to get more good things is to appreciate the good things you already have. In everyone’s life no matter how small there is something to be grateful and to give thanks. Yes some people have certain kinds of abundance it seems as a birth right, but there are levels of abundance. At the very least be thankful for another day in this existence, the air you breath, your job, your last meal.
4. Compare yourself to NO ONE!
Most of us get the blues because we compare our lives to the lives of other. You hear it and it gets forced down your throat at every turn. You have seen the magazines for men and women. Have a Body like Hugh Jackman, Get a beach body like Mila Kunis. Sing like Justin Timberlake. Come on, The best thing you can do is yourself. DO YOU! People who are comfortable with themselves get reinforcement because they naturally flow with their own personality. I like to use Lady Gaga as an example, she gives the air of this is who I am, so deal with it.
5. Get Busy..Doing something your enjoy
Some people bowl, play darts, scrapbook, cook, or find joy from some activity. Figure out what you like or might like to do. Find a hobby. There is something out there that you would spend most of your time doing, that will and can bring you joy. I like video games, podcasting and blogging, writing music , and laughing. Once you find something you like it will lead you to other thing you enjoy. the key is finding that THING.
6. Laugh
Laughter is the best medicine. Have a good laugh, for me it’s watching Beavis and Butthead, my friends or the Three Stooges. Find things to laugh at even if it is yourself. Get in your car or take a walk with your headphones on and listen to music that lifts you mood. Sing out loud and don’t care what other people think. Sing to yourself, sing in your car, sing on the bus as you head about your day. It will lift your spirit and make others smile too. We as humans take our time here too seriously. It’s not that Deep.
Enjoy the day
Emmitt (DR. Feelgood) Muckles
