Happy life truths

 

1. Beware of silent dogs and still waters
2. A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
3. Never shake someone’s hand while sitting down
4. Dress to impress
5. If you can genuinely smile, you can get a job almost anywhere
6. Always return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas
7. Thank a police officer, veteran, working military, etc
8. Always be appreciative for what you have
9. If you have access to clean drinking water, you are richer than the majority of the rest of the world
10. Learn to keep a secret
11. Get a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life
12. Set your standards high
13. Don’t hang around people with no goals, ambitions, or passions, or you will soon turn out just like them
14. You are who you associate with
15. You marry that girl and you marry her whole family too
16. Learn to be confident yet humble at the same time
17. Call and check up often on your loved ones
18. Not a second of time is guaranteed
19. Compliment her
20. Send her sweet texts
21. Do not speak to a fool, for they will despise your wisest advice
22. Never take the last beer
23. Never stop dating

Brutal truths in life

1. All truth initially hurts as everybody wants to toy with a lie before they become serious. This explains why there’s so much failure in the earlier stages of life.
2. If you want to succeed quickly, solve human problems that hurt the most. The problem is that most people waste time trying to solve problems that do not exist.
3. Do you know when you started failing? You started failing when you started listening to people who were frequently using the word “impossible” in their vocabulary.
4. Don’t judge people by their color. The human brain is not limited by the color of the skin.
5. Life is unpredictable, painfully illogical, and subtly absurd. Why is it shocking that some of the greatest achievements in history have been accomplished by people who had been dismissed by the cleverest of people?
6. Achieving anything through unethical means seems to push it away from you and appears to pull along with it all that you have gained ethically.
7. Trial and error doesn’t apply to all things in life. For example, putting your head on the tarmac of a busy road will definitely get you killed by a speeding car. The same thing will happen when you go to bed with the wrong person.
8. Some things do not require an example for you to do them. If nobody has ever done it, perhaps everybody else is also waiting to see who will go first. And that might be you.
9. Most people do not fail in life because they started something and failed. They failed because they never started anything in the first place.
10. You can easily tell if a person loves you by their deeds. However, this can often be misleading since there’s no way of knowing if a person intends to kill you.
11. Forgive your enemies but never forget that they’re still your enemies. A leopard can’t change its spots even if it wanted to.
12. Logic is the simplicity of understanding and explaining things, but can never completely explain more sophisticated things. That’s when you must rely on your instincts and hunches by keenly listening to your heart.
13. When people are envious of you this is a clear indication that you are more successful than they are. However, you should be more concerned when there seems to be no one who is envious of you. The amount of envy corresponds to the amount of success you have.
14. Don’t be deceived or quickly get excited when people say they love you. People who truly love you should be ready to fight for you.
15. Follow the road not traveled and you’ll discover one of two things—either there is treasure people aren’t aware of, or there is a good reason why the road is not traveled.
16. Don’t kid yourself that you’re going to get rich or successful without putting in some hard work, sacrifice and dedicated focus. After all, who will be proud of you?
17. Success is both painful and costly. Most people want the success minus the pain and the cost. The result? Failure.
18. Four things should be treasured—a friend who loves you unconditionally, a neighbor who will wake up in the middle of the night to respond to your distress, a friend who is always there when you need them, and a dog that will die trying to protect you.
19. Three things should never be forgotten—your mother who brought you into the world and was there for you until you became an adult, your father who gave her the seed and toiled hard to make sure you didn’t die of hunger, and the total stranger who told you nothing but the truth.

2 B

 Be Positive

 

Positivity is contagious.

 

Everyone loves a genuine smile, a strong positive vibe, and passion with each word you speak.

 

This just creates instant “like”

 

If you’re just meeting with someone, never say something negative about yourself.

 

Don’t share your insecurities.

 

Be positive.

 

It signals “strength” to the other person, and is important.

 

The fact is…

 

Most people are surrounded by negativity, and just love the chance to be in the presence of someone who can see the positive in everything.

 

The same “relaxation” hacks can also be used as positivity hacks..

 

Personally, a daily gratitude journal has helped me become a happier and more positive person.

 

Every night before you go to sleep, list all the things you’re grateful for.

 

Here’s my gratitude this morning:

 

Grateful for coffee..

Grateful for the sun..

Grateful I get to write and impact you with these emails..

Grateful for a supportive woman…

Grateful for my good health

 

and etc.

 

Be Confident

 

Confidence breeds….. everything.

 

If you don’t believe in yourself or your value, nobody else will.

 

Confidence is built by focusing on yourself, not others.

 

You are the center of your universe.

 

Your attention should be on you (not in a narcissistic way)

 

If you don’t like something about yourself, change it.

 

You can change almost everything in your life.

 

Stop creating excuses, and remember:

 

You are the most powerful person in the universe.

Lifestyle or Life itself?

When there were never enough hours at work, I was home most evenings enjoying dinner and family time.

Both wifey and I participated with the kids in their activities.

We vacationed as a family, just for a week once or twice a year.

So I could have built more wealth but instead we ended up richer.

We enjoy a long and loving marriage.

We treasure close relationships with all our children. 

We have fun with friends and experience new adventures.

We both enjoy good health and the freedom that brings.

Oh, and in the midst of it all, surprisingly, we’ve built a comfortable level of wealth.

You can become truly rich but only as you focus on building more than wealth.

Unwritten rules of a happy life

1. A $50 watch and a $5000 watch both can tell you the time. But neither can buy you more time. So focus on living each day and each moment fully. And that buys you time and happiness.

2. A $20,000 car and a $200,000 car can both take you to your destination. But neither can take you to your dream. So focus each day on getting a closer to that. And one day you’ll reach it.

3. A $500 TV and a $5000 home entertainment system can both entertain you. But neither can make you happy. So focus each day on being happy. Then you won’t need as much entertainment

4. A $200 outfit and a $2000 outfit can both make you look attractive. But neither can make you a beautiful person. So focus each day on becoming beautiful not just attractive and you will.

5. A $50 pair of sneakers and a $500 workout outfit can both enable you to exercise. But neither can give you health. So focus each day on building health and enjoy it.

6. A $50 night out or a $500 night out with friends can be fun. But neither will guarantee friendship. So focus each day on being a friend. And you’ll have friends.

7. A $200,000 house and a $2,000,000 house will each provide you a place to live. But neither will guarantee you a happy family. So focus each day on building family. And you’ll have it no matter where you live.

8. A $500 wedding ring and a $50,000 wedding ring both signify you’re married. But neither will guarantee you love. So focus each day on building love. And you’ll have a happy marriage.

Advice for my children

 

1. Son or daughter, don’t engage in pleasure, avoid it at all costs—for pleasure is always here. Many young men and women found it and it consumed them and left them poor. Then it waited for other young men and women and consumed them too, for the appetite of pleasure is insatiable.
2. Son or daughter, beware of con men and con women—you know, the ones who will pounce on you like hungry wolves when they discover you have money, and pretend they love you but what they’re really after, is your money. Then as soon as they realize the damage they’ve caused you, they disappear into thin air like ghosts.
3. Son or daughter, life becomes meaningless when you stop loving yourself. Until you understand this important secret, you’ll remain poor and isolated for the rest of your life. Love yourself first, and other people will love you.
4. Son or daughter, laugh with all, but trust no one. Trust is something that requires the test of time. Remember, everyone must earn your trust before you can trust them.
5. Son or daughter, love your father and mother and honour them for bringing you into the world. It’s not a perfect world, but love them still, because no one else is there for them. Remember, you’re a continuation of them. If they failed, you’re there to succeed. If they made some mistakes, you’re there to correct them.
6. Son or daughter, do something useful for your life, invest in your life, invest in education, and most importantly, invest money. And if you don’t have money, don’t fuss. Go work for it. Don’t just sit around. Cut grass. Just do something until you get money.
7. Son or daughter, avoid bad friends, who are just there to consume your money and run away from you when your money is gone.
8. Son or daughter, good friends are rare and difficult to find. If you find one or two, keep them for the longest time possible. Keeping good friends reduces your stress and carelessness.
9. Son or daughter, have fun but also have limits. Remember, a person without limits will soon go over the cliff.
10. Son or daughter, keep away from vipers and rattlesnakes. Vipers and rattlesnakes are people who eat with you on the same table and backbite you the moment they leave your table. Vipers and rattlesnakes are people who are jealous of your progress and would celebrate to see you dead.
11. Son or daughter, don’t marry before you accumulate financial stability. Remember, if you struggled to feed yourself when you were just single, feeding two mouths will be even a greater challenge. What about when the children begin to arrive? What about when your children will want a good education? By then, you will be looking like you’re twenty years older than you actually are.
12. Son or daughter, teach yourself a valuable skill, for a good skill will take you places, but more importantly, teach yourself business, for business will look after you when you’re old, better than your mother ever could.
13. Son or daughter, you will make many mistakes and many things will not go your way, but the worst mistake you can make is to give up and blame yourself. When you make a mistake, don’t beat yourself up. Move on, and you will soon realize as you move that, life is not perfect.
14. Son or daughter, you’re still young and time is on your side. The greatest skill is to understand the value of time, for time is money and money is part of life. Therefore, the greatest sin should be time wastage.
15. Son or daughter, learn from whatever they teach you in school, college or university, but more importantly, learn from the school of life, for the school of life is where the best education is to be found. The school of life teaches you the difference between good and evil, fortune and poverty, success and failure, fame and disgrace.
16. Son or daughter, don’t seek knowledge just for the sake of it. Seek knowledge for the sake of profit and for helping others. Anyway, with the proliferation of the Internet, knowledge has been rendered free. More importantly, seek wisdom, for it will protect you, correct you when you go wrong, protect your life, protect your money, and above all, it will preserve your dignity.