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First Splendid Truth: To be happy, you need to consider feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
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Outer Order Contributes to Inner Calm.
For most people, making an effort to keep surroundings in decent order really pays off in happiness.
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Your Body Matters.
It sounds obvious, but it’s easy to overlook! Get enough sleep, exercise regularly, get some sunshine, go to a doctor if you need to.
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Wherever you are, and whenever it is, now is always the right time to begin your Happiness Project.
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The Duty of Happiness.
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” –Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Know Yourself.
You can choose what you do, but you can’t choose what you like to do.
To make a happy life, you need to know yourself and acknowledge your own nature. For some people, this is a real challenge.
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According to Gretchen Rubin she found out that her commandments help her most when she review them at least daily, to keep them fresh in her mind, and to do this, it helps to keep the list short and snappy. She suspects that Twelve Commandments is too much. Maybe She only need two, “Be Gretchen” ...
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Want What You Have.
Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.
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Fourth Splendid Truth: You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy.Your Body Matters.
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Second Splendid Truth: 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.
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Happiness is Other People.
Philosophers and scientists agree: a KEY to happiness is strong relationships with other people. Building strong bonds should be one of your top priorities in life.
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Be Gretchen.
Let it go.
Act the way I want to feel.
Do it now.
Be polite and be fair.
Enjoy the process.
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