Another route to happiness

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"There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way." (anonymous)

Oh yeah, and HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Remember:

Life is beautiful!
Have a nice Sunday, everyone :)

Make Every Day Different

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.”
-Paulo Coelho

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If you do the same thing every day, they'll all blend together for you.
Find your own way to make each day stand out!
Do something new everyday or work on something different everyday.
Being the list maker that I am, I've started a list which gives a headline for each day,
such as, "The day I bought that new CD and it made me cry, it was so good."
Not a real example, but.. :) You get the idea.
Get out there and do it!
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Don't Complain

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It's getting cold out there, and we're freezing.
Everybody knows it's unpleasant to be cold, and plenty of complaining is going around.
Listen, sometimes it's good to complain - if a solution can come from it. But this cold of winter? Not the complaints of every cold human in the world would help it. So instead of complaining- brace yourself. YOU are a penguin, my friend. You were MADE to survive the cold.
Trust me, other people will be happier not to hear it, and you will even feel better not hearing it.

French Proverb

Après la pluie, le beau temps.

After the rain, comes the nice weather.

Whatever you may be struggling with or stressing out about, you'll get through it, the storm will always pass. :)

I went back in time to bring you this post!

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Sorry I missed it the first time. :)

Why don't you...

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Take a hot chocolate break. A good week lies ahead.

Happy Day!

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YOU ROCK!
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(Amy couldn't get to a computer yesterday, sorry!)

Some things never change..

..and it's a good thing!

Can you think of something consistantly awesome in your life? (i.e. a friendship, your great hair, etc, lol)

Lola says 'Happy November, Humans!'

and so do Kelly and Heidi.

I'm Done

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Heidi (that's me!) is working on homework today. :)
Today's inspiration is a simple one, but hopefully gets through to you the same:
Stop waiting.
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Haha, I did a workout out of my SELF magazine this morning and all the while I wanted to stop short, I kept thinking, "It's all about forming the habit." I have a huge problem with getting into this habit, so today that was all I focused on. And you know what? It helped.

p.s. Sorry LOLA EVERYDAY has been sporadic in updates lately, I've been busy! Give me another week to get things constant. Thanks.

Woopsies!

HORRAY for a great weekend!

This post is for the sake of not missing a day, although it's delayed.
Happy almost Monday, everybody!

Write! Right?

A piece of advice: whether you suddenly get a brilliant idea while sitting in class, or are thinking about all the things you need to do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day...

WRITE IT DOWN!

Writing things down as you think of them is a great way to stop having to worry, and to be able to come back to some things when you have more time. You think you might remember it in the morning or later on, but you might not! So write things down and clear your mind :)

Never Regret

Oh, Mona...

Laughter is proven to not only make you feel happier, but relieves your stress, works out your diaphram, abs, and shoulders (not to mention your heart), AND it's a distraction from any negative emotions you have.

Basically all around, it is GOOD for you.

How to incorporate laughter into your life:

Laugh by yourself - watch a funny movie or read The Onion; instead of complaining about life's frustrations, try to laugh about them - if something is so frustrating or depressing it's ridiculous, realize you could look back on it and laugh, so why wait? Laugh about it now.

Laugh with others - do something silly and outrageous with someone else, laughing is contagious; the more they laugh the more you will too!

Fake it til you make it - even fake laughter can have the positive affects listed above, so fake an evil laugh and eventually it will probably turn in to a real one! ;)

{You know...}

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Some things to think about

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“"If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.”

Walter Reuther

“Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”

Unknown

“Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.”

Unknown

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Andre Gide

“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'”

Sydney Harris

“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”

Abraham Lincoln

“If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

Marie Osmond

Learning Something New

AH! A BRAND NEW WEEK! Limitless possibilities! Let's start it out with some new knowledge, shall we? Below I've arranged what I think to be the very basics of Sign Language. (Because we've all looked away from the pastor at church to look at the woman doing sign language, because we've all seen a movie with a character who uses it to communicate, and because we love learning)

Half Credit: Go through all of the signs with your hands, if only once, just to get the feeling of them (it will be easier to remember them if you've seen them and done them)
Extra Credit: Go here and look at some other signs, maybe even try a couple.