9 Ways to be Happy and make something of your life

9 Ways to be Happy and make something of your life

-Gordon B. Hinckley

1. Be Grateful

Reflection: This means that we shouldn't take things for granted, we should always be grateful. Never treat things like you will have to forever and you shouldn't care for it. You have to always be happy you have what you received and never take it for granted. 

  Quote:  "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."

-Joel Osteen

2. Be Smart

Reflection: Being smart is very important. There are many different kinds of smart, there is book smart, which means you are great with books and does well with rules. There is also street smart,which means you know the streets and your way around. I will apply this way when i walk down the street and when i read books in school to learn more and have knowledge of things I wouldn't have known without reading.

Quote: "Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about"   
 - Solomon Short`

3. Be involved in Good Work

            Reflection: Being involved in good work shows you are a reliable person working in a good environment. No one can stop you from being a good person and if anyone tries, you are able to stop them and show you can overcome their words and always do good.

Quote: "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

- Elbert Hubbard

4. Be Clean

Reflection: This means to be clean with what you are doing and neat. no one wants to see a mess when being presented something. Being neat and clean helps show you are professional. Ways to stay clean is to not take part in all  the things that make a person dirty such as drugs, alcohol, gambling, foul language, tattoos, piercings, etc...

Quote:  " Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals."

-James Naismith

5. Be True

Reflection: Being true is just as it sounds. You should always be true and never tell lies even if the situation can easily call for lies. No one wants to be lied to, if someone lies and others find out no one will believe they are truthful after that incident. People who are truthful are people who can be trusted and easily told things that others wouldn't tell people lie.

Quote "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

-Buddha

6. Be positive 
Reflection: Being positive can be a very difficult thing to accomplish on a daily bases but, being positive is about looking towards the good in every situation. Many things in life will come to try to beat you down and tear you apart. If you are positive, you will not let these things take you down they will just go right over you. You must be able to be positive with any outcome that occurs. If something bad happens to you, it is alright to be upset but you must not let those things bring you down for good. Being positive is to look up towards and sky and keep your chin up to be happy and continue moving forward with a smile through everything the world throws at you.

Quote:  "Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive."

-Matt Cameron

7. Be Humble

Reflection: Humble is to be respectful for others and respect their desires and wishes. Others want people to respect them and stay humble rather than those who are opposite and begin to make others feel low and worthless as if they can not achieve anything. There are many people out in the world who are the opposite of humble and it is so devastating to see the way humans have begun to act towards their fellow human beings. 

Quote:  "Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."

-Sigmund Freud

8. Be Still:

Reflection: This means to not let others move you from what you believe in. You should let all outside things go and become one with the universe. Surrender your omnipresent.  

Quote: "Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me."

-Adam Baldwin

9. Be Prayerful

Reflection: We should not reject what we believe in because of others or because of  what we are apart of. We should respect our beliefs and stay committed to them and not turn our back.

 Reflection: These 9 ways to be happy are ways to guide me to become a better me and be more happier in life. Happiness comes and goes for many people but, if i follows this fully i may be able to be happy throughout my life. I need to keep everything in mind to always make sure I follow it and never let it leaved my head so i may go down the wrong path. I need to be cautious and make sure everything i do in life is within the boundaries of these 9 ways to be happy.