Our expectations often make us utterly unhappy. Happy people don’t:
- Don’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. They take responsibility for their role and understand life isn’t always easy or fair.
- Don’t give away power. You are in control of your emotions and have a choice in how you respond.
- Don’t feel the world owes anything. It is much harder to change the length of your life than the depth of it.
- Don’t feel it is too late to start over. Emotionally strong people genuinely appreciate and celebrate other people’s successes.
- Don’t get impatient and settle. Be patient and keep working.
- Don’t make the same mistake over and over again. The second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake but a choice.
- Don’t hang onto every word other people say about you. You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. You can change how you react and who you want to be around.
- Don’t believe everyone is out to hurt or destroy. Everyone intends to get to heaven, but nobody is willing to die. We have no way to know what lies over the next horizon.
- Don’t live in another time and place. The past is gone, and the future doesn’t exist. They live for now.
- Don’t try to be someone different. Don’t change so people will like you. Be yourself. The right people will love you.
Remember to keep the circle positive, peaceful and loving. ©
Written with love.
#decidetobehappy
Joy M. Mills
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