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1. Count your blessings - Count your blessings — but not everyday.

2. Hear the Music

3. Snug. Canoodle. Get It On

4. Nurture Your Spirituality - Survey after survey shows that people with strong religious faith — of any religion or denomination — are happier than those who are irreligious.

5. Move Your Body - We’ve all heard about a “runner’s high,” but there are plenty of other ways to achieve that feeling. Dance. Play a sport. Work out as hard as you can. Take a walk so your stress will take a hike.

6. Laugh Big

7. Do Something Nice for Someone Else - Hold a door open for someone at the bank, give someone directions if they look lost or make a point to compliment three people on your way to work. Small or big, directed at friends or strangers, random acts of kindness make the person performing the kind act happier when they’re grouped together.

8. Make More Money Than Your Peers - Money as an absolute may not make you a happier person but making more money than others in your age group does, according to a sociological study done in 2005 by researchers at Pennsylvania State University.

9. Seek Positive Emotion as a Path to Success - Happiness can lead to success, rather than just the other way around. Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out new opportunities and set new goals.

10. Identify With Your Heritage - Appreciating one’s culture creates and strengthens bonds with others who share that culture and also allows one to identify and appreciate cultural difference.

11. Use a Happy Memory as a Guide - Learn to scan your memory bank for your strengths, talents, passions, interests, practical coping skills, and earlier potential — whether it’s actualized or not.

12. Play the Part of an Optimist - Optimism is a learned skill and there are a variety of ways to acquire it.

13. Try New Things - If you often do one thing that makes you happy, then try another.

14. Tell Your Story to Someone - Talking about the good and bad things that happen can lead to happiness — even if it is from opposite ends of the phone line.

15. Balance Work and Home

16. Be Like the Danes: Keep Expectations Realistic

17. Make Time - Maybe set aside two nights in your calendar to focus on those things that you’d like to spend more time on.

18. Visualize Happiness

19. Smile - Go ahead. It won’t hurt you. It might actually make you happier, too.

20. Marry Happy - Research shows that depressed singles receive greater psychological benefit — from things such as intimacy and emotional closeness — from getting married than those who are not depressed. And for the married population, first of all, congratulations: people in committed relationships have been shown to be happier than those who aren’t, despite how satisfying their marriages actually are.

Source: http://www.time.com/time

If you open it, close it.

If you turn it on, turn it off .

If you unlock it, lock it up.

If you break it, admit it.

If you make a mess, clean it up.

If you move it, put it back.

If it belongs to someone else and you want to use it, get permission.

If you don’t know how to operate it, leave it alone.

If it’s none of your business, don’t ask questions.

If ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

If it brighten someone’s day, say it.

If it tarnish someone’s reputation, keep it to yourself.

1. Keep your love growing by giving both love and respect

According to www.loveandrespect.com, “Love is a woman’s deepest need and respect is man’s deepest need. I believe this is based on the Bible.”

2. Keep your love growing by making adjustments

The good book says, ‘Look for one another’s interests and not just your own.’ (Philippians 2:4), Thinking of only yourself and not being prepared to meet the needs of the other kills a relationship. It’s called selfishness!

      3. Keep your love growing by meeting each other’s needs

A husband who does the dishes, fixes things around the house, cares for the maintenance of the yard and car (Acts of Service) does not understand it when his wife says, “You never hug me.” (Physical Touch). Or, “Why don’t you spend time with me? “ (Quality Time). Or, “You never buy me flowers?” (Gifts) Or, “You never encourage me?” (Words of Affirmation) But, if her expression of love is Acts of Service, she’ll feel so loved because her husband does so many things for her. When you discover the best way your partner wants to express and receive love your whole world will look right and you both will rise to a new level.

Let’s look at three of these love expressions in more depth: encouragement, quality time and showing affection.

The importance of things can be measured by how much time we are willing to invest in them. The more time you give to something, the more you reveal its importance and value to you.

Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can’t make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life that is why the greatest gift you can give someone is you time.

It is not enough just to say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Relationships takes time and effort, and the best way to spell love is “T-I-M-E.”

The essence of love is not we think or do or provide for others, but how much we give ourselves.

Men, in particular, often don’t understand this. Many men said, “I don’t understand my wife and kids. I provide everything that they need. What more could they want?” They want you! Your ears, your eyes, your time, your attention, your presence, your focus-your time. Nothing can take the place of that. Love concentrates so intently on another that you forget yourself at that moment. Attention says. “I value you enough to give you my post precious asset-my time.”

You can give without loving, but cannot love without giving. Love means giving up- yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy or time for the benefit of someone else.

by Rick Warren ( Purpose Driven Life)