Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2012

The Importance of Respect in a Relationship



Why do you love your spouse or partner? If you start thinking carefully, you will realize that the physical attributes play a great role in it all, and there is no reason why they should not. However, do you really respect him or her for what he or she is? Respect is a heavy word — it weighs more than love. You have to respect your partner’s opinions, his or her idea of personal space, and retain your own respect at the same time. Slavishly following every whim of your partner and then behaving like a spoilt child once this transient charm of saying yes to everything is over is not what makes a marriage.

There are too many people squabbling over money, career, child rearing, household duties and every possible angle of a conjugal life today. These petty disagreements are not going to occur if two people respect each other. It is difficult, and not blindly done, but those who can manage it have found the key to happiness.


Saturday, November 3, 2012

Dandelions and Life and Love



Its small, yellow head peeks sweetly through the grass, eager to kiss the sun's golden rays of light. It is just a weed, a nuisance a pain only, there to annoy.

Or is it?

It IS just a weed, with a short, outcast life.

But it spends its short life better than most,

Living only to bring happiness to others.

I don't think many mothers can honestly say they haven't smiled upon

receiving a weed or two,

A small, sweaty, fistful of weeds, clutched sweetly by her small child.

Who can say, they have never made a wish as they blow on its fluffy white head

Watching each little seed fly away, heavily laden with the blower's hopes and dreams?

When I look at my yard, the first thing I notice is a spot of golden color,

Strewn Among the green carpet,

Here and there, dotting the grass with color.

My yard reminds me of the world and the people in it.

The masses of people who travel in clumps, each alike, are like the grass.

But, the people who walk the Earth, trying to make it a better place to live,

remind me of the little yellow flowers.

Ask yourself this:

Are you in a Clump?

Or are you an individual?

 Sam



Sunday, September 2, 2012

How to Live Long



+ Have a positive attitude - smile!

+ Eat a healthy balanced diet - include at least five daily portions of fruit and vegetables

+ Drink lots of water - at least 1 - 1.5 litres per day

+ Exercise for at least 30 minutes per day, and make sure it is aerobic

+ Make sure you get at least 8 hours of sleep per day

+ Maintain a healthy lifestyle

+ Ban stress - make sure you relax

+ Have more fun - bring out the child in you!

+ Don’t worry, be happy!

+ Hug somebody you love every day! 

+Love yourself and treat yourself with some flowers, or chocolates!

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Be Happy With Yourself


Everyone wants to be happy, but many do not succeed. Why? Because sometimes we rely on people or things, like money to make us happy.

This is wrong. Happiness lies within each of us. But how?

Oscar Wilde once said: 'It's better to be beautiful than to be good, but it's better to be good than to be ugly.’ Many women, but men included feels inadequate when they are not as beautiful as they want to be. Subsequently, this makes them unhappy.

When you were not born blessed with natural beauty, there is nothing to worry about. All you have to do is to learn to accept who and what you are and love yourself. Nobody is perfect, but true beauty is from inside. Once you accepted that you are beautiful in your own right, you will be happy! Be happy with your body and what it can do for you.

We must have and cherish friends. Remember, friends cannot make us happy. But, having true friends must make us happy. This is because all human beings need close social connections to be happy. Work on the strength of your friendships, and not the quantity thereof.

Personality, too, seems linked to happiness extroverts usually seem happier, probably because they do things that bring them happiness, like forming strong friendships, enjoying relationships and accepting career challenges. But, whether you are introvert or extrovert, we can all learn to be happy. It starts with a choice.

The choice of being happy or not, lies within, not outside!


Thursday, July 12, 2012

Love Will Stand the Test of Time



Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived; Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others......, including Love. 

One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave. Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve the island until the last possible moment. 

When the island was almost totally under, Love decided it was time to leave. She began looking for someone to ask for help. Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat. Love asked, "Richness, can I come with you on your boat?" 

Richness answered, "I'm sorry, but there is a lot of silver and gold on my boat and there would be no room for you." 

Then Love decided to ask Vanity for help who was passing in a beautiful vessel. Love cried out, "Vanity, help me please."

 I can't help you", Vanity said, "You are all wet and will damage my beautiful boat." 

Next, Love saw Sadness passing by. Love said, "Sadness, please let me go with you." 

Sadness answered, "Love, I'm sorry, but, I just need to be alone now." 

Then, Love saw Happiness. Love cried out, "Happiness, please take me with you." 

But Happiness was so overjoyed that he didn't hear Love calling to him. 

Love began to cry. Then, she heard a voice say, "Come Love, I will take you with me." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that she forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived on land the elder went on his way. Love realized how much she owed the elder. 

Love then found Knowledge and asked, "Who was it that helped me?" "It was Time", Knowledge answered. "But why did Time help me when no one else would?" Love asked. 

Knowledge smiled and with deep wisdom and sincerity, answered, “Because only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."

Author Unknown

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Tips to boost your self-image



Never let how others think, talk or what they do, It is only you who can define how you choose to love and accept who you are; ignore what other people think or talk about you. Be true to yourself and trust in your own beauty and uniqueness. Spend less time worrying about how another perceives you.

The expectation created by the Media on the beauty and sexiness of a woman is nothing more than a learned behaviour. Throw out all of those so called beauty magazines. Why continue to fall into the Media’s traps of their view on what beauty is.

 Food is not the enemy. The enemy is you allowing the perceptions of others on what healthy or not healthy food are, to dictate to you – you must decide for yourself what to eat and what not to eat.

A positive self-image is vital to our own reflection, as we will never be able to see ourselves through another person’s eyes, only our own.

 The first thing to do in the morning when you wake up is to have a nice stretch – you will feel immensely good. After a good stretch, say to yourself: “I am UNIQUE, I am SPECIAL, and I am STRONG!

Take a long look at yourself in the mirror, the first thing you will see is the imperfections. Do not worry, just keep looking and after a while those imperfections will slowly become a familiar beauty.

Go through your wardrobe and replace all of those way too tight pants and low rise jeans for a style that your body type looks best in.

Embrace your age. Remember it is aging that allows you to continue to grow and experience life.

Spend less time reading negative articles and more time reading positive information that will make you feel good about you.

Get rid of as much stress as you can. You will be surprised at how much better and how much easier it becomes when you remove one stressful thing a day!

Make time for forty winks during the day.  Resting your mind and body is essential in gaining strength to carry you throughout life’s daily challenges.

Make time for exercising.  Feel that adrenaline rush like it fresh water running down your body, draining all the stress.

Take a long bath; it will make you feel more renewed.

Take up meditation. Meditation is a whole new world and a very effective relaxation strategy. You will be able to cleanse the mind through learning relaxation techniques as well as the stress levels.

Make time for reading. Reading is where the mind can subconsciously be freed from the realities that stress us out.

Take a few minutes to pat yourself on your back for the good things that you accomplished today.

Work on balancing all of your emotions. Try to feel more positive than negative about the small stuff.

Be your best friend. You are responsible for your own happiness.

Smile and be you, a very unique you, a very special you.

If you can feel the sunshine and the rain on your face, the wind blow through your hair, you are alive! So live.

Remember that only through your failures can you find success.

When you compare yourself with another, you are in-fact abusing yourself by destructing your own self-worth and self-esteem!

To envy another is a symptom of low self-esteem and solely disrespects your own uniqueness. Envy no one but yourself.

You are what you think you are. How you are thinking right now will determine the outcome of the rest of your day, so think POSITIVE.

Be that beautiful, vibrant woman – you are special, you are truly WOMAN!