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Making 2010 the Best Year of Your Life!

Posted on: 01-14-2010 Posted in: Answers to Pithy Questions, happiness, Just for Fun!, Publications, Women Helping Women

Last year about this time, I tore a page out of a magazine. Was it Oprah? Real Simple? I can’t remember – but I do know this: I see this page every day, as it hangs in my office. It’s a prose selection from Barbara Kingsolver’s High Tide in Tucson, and it reads:

“Every one of us is called upon, probably many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job…And onward full tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another —that is surely the basic instinct…Crying out: High Tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.”

Isn’t that just wonderful? I just had to share it with you.

And, I want to share something else. I was in touch recently with Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, and she sent me a set of Resolutions Charts, which I’m passing on to you. I’m certain that some of you have heard about this book, but maybe not. If you’d like to learn more about it, go to the Web site. While you’re there, you’ll discover…(each one of these is a link to a related blog post, so feel free to click through for added content):

The 10 Personal Commandments

  • Be Gretchen.
  • Let it go.
  • Act the way I want to feel.
  • Do it now.
  • Be polite and be fair.
  • Enjoy the process.
  • Spend out.
  • Identify the problem.
  • Lighten up.
  • Do what ought to be done.
  • No calculation.
  • There is only love.

Four Splendid Truths

  • First: To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
  • Second: One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.
  • Third: The days are long, but the years are short. (click the link to see my one-minute movie)
  • Fourth: You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy.
She’s going to be in Berkeley on January 26th, and I’m thinking about driving up there to hear her speak, and meet with her. She could be another wonderful guest for an upcoming tele-event, or podcast!
Wishing you all the best this Thursday afternoon has to offer you.

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