“I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to smile a lot. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person!” --- Abraham
 How to Be Happy
More than 100 years ago, author Robert Louis Stevenson offered the following tips for maintaining a positive attitude. They still apply today.

1. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
   
2. Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
   
3. Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
   
4. You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.
   
5. Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
   
6. Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
   
7. Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
   
8. Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, enmity, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.
   
9. Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.
   
10. Don't hold post mortems. Don't spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things.
    
11. Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
    
12. Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.

~Robert Louis Stevenson





P.S:
Reading,digesting,absorbing and assimilating the above material again and again…will keep me very busy today.  Today’s mantra is……..
“I am a happy person!”
Namaste,
Bhagya