Recently a friend of mine forwarded me one of those email chains with tips on how to live a better life in 2010 pertaining to your health, personality, community, and life. I know a lot of people think new year’s resolutions are stupid….people rarely fall through with them but at least for a few months (days?) we are reminded to try to better ourselves! Here are the ones from the chain that I enjoyed:

Health:
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy
7. Read more books than you did in 2009
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day —- and while you walk, smile

Personality:
11. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. Don’t take yourself so seriously ; no one else does
18. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.

Community:
25. Call your family often
27. Forgive everyone for everything
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
31. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
37. The best is yet to come

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