Recognizing and Appreciating what you have

“Happiness is an attitude, not a condition. It is cleaning the Venetian blinds while listening to an aria, or spending a pleasant hour organizing your closet. Happiness is your family assembled at dinner. It’s in the present, not in the distant promise of a someday when..”

How much luckier we are – and how much more happiness we experience – if we can fall in love with the life we’re living.
Happiness is a choice. Reach out for it at the moment it appears, like a balloon drifting seaward in a bright blue sky.
Adair Lara
from the Simple Secrets of Happy People (in no particular order)
Happy People:

* Know that Life has meaning and purpose
* Laugh
* Keep Family Close
* Pay Attention, you may have what you want
* Enjoy the ordinary
* Know what makes them happy, and what makes them sad
* Smile
* Listen to music
* Don’t accept television’s picture of the world
* Do
* Keep Reading
* Keep a pen & paper handy
* Make your work a calling
* Share themselves
* Don’t let their religious beliefs fade
* Eat fruit every day
* Don’t forget to have fun
* Develop a household routine
* Do not fear aging.

My friend sent me this, and I wanted to share it with you! :)