ENDOPHINE (内啡呔-天然兴奋剂)

Every time when I have done some workout like Yoga, dancing, hiking and jogging or skipping, I will have a sense of cheering and rejuvenation and more confidnece.


Here is the main reason -
 
Exercises can trigger the body to generate ENDOPHINE (内啡呔-天然兴奋剂) which is generated in our vertebrate during excercise, laughting and other triggers.


Endorphins ("endogenous morphine") are endogenous opioid peptides that function as neurotransmitters.[1] They are produced by the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus in vertebrates during exercise,[2] excitement, pain, consumption of spicy food, love and orgasm,[3][4] and they resemble the opiates in their abilities to produce analgesia and a feeling of well-being.




Endorphins rush has been adopted in popular speech to refer to feelings of exhilaration brought on by pain, danger, or other forms of stress,[2] supposedly due to the influence of endorphins. When a nerve impulse reaches the spinal cord, endorphins are released which prevent nerve cells from releasing more pain signals. Immediately after injury, endorphins allow animals to feel a sense of power and control over themselves that allows them to persist with activity for an extended time.[citation neede



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphin

A routine workout is the best way to get recovery from sickness and depression, the best cure for headache and to regain energy and a necessary process to build stamina and immune system.

Recently, I had contracted gastroparesis and cold. To get a quick strength recovery after the problems gettingdiminished gradually, I went to a hike alone. It usually takes me 1 hours or more to complete with my family together. That time it was a cloudy and looked to rain heavily. Without carrying an umbrella, I'd to stride as quickly as I could to avoid getting wet and catch cold again.

Within less than 50 minute, I completed the shourt journey with unexpected joy and self satisfaction.

I've realise that that routine workout is the best medicine for not only physical wellbeing but mental health. A sound mental health will make people more positive, assuring, content that is key to keep our life going healthly facing the ever changing environments.

29-3-2011

感恩﹐是快樂的泉源

Gen,


Do you remember the "DREAM Possible"s 工作坊? we may not have got time to attend their courses but DR Chow HUA SHANG's messages are always thought-provoking, inspiring and reflecting.

感恩﹐是快樂的泉源﹐是人世間最有智慧的生活態度﹐視一切經歷為上天賜予的禮物。

其實﹐福與禍﹑樂與苦﹐都是心的領受。心懷感恩﹐生機無盡﹐快樂無窮。我們不可能一面感恩﹐同時煩惱和抱怨﹐它們是不能並存的。當我仍然抱怨﹐只因為我尚未懂得感恩。

抱怨﹐猶如吸毒﹐會上癮的﹐越抱怨﹑越痛苦﹐並把痛苦傳給他人。

感恩﹐猶如收禮﹐很快樂的﹐越感恩﹑越快樂﹐並把快樂傳給他人。

感恩﹐不是成功得意時才需要﹔相反﹐痛苦時﹐最需要感恩。當我感恩﹐焦點不再是「我的」痛苦﹑「我的」無奈﹐而是自己所受的恩惠。感恩的起點﹐是「我」﹐過程包括許多個「你」﹐終點成為「我們」。因為有你﹐所以有我。

感恩﹐讓我們的生命更加完整﹑圓滿。

讓我們一起學習感恩的竅門﹐品嘗感恩的威力。

Mon

2011.3.29

How to improve concentration in class

Gen,


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W5P-5207H5P-2&_user=10&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1688374128&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ab3e646fb751dd17845606056c313bdc&searchtype=a


Daydreaming and its correlates in an educational environmentstar,

Sophie I. Lindquistlow asterisk, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author and John P. McLean1, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author

Abstract

The experience of daydreaming is familiar to all, yet daydreaming and its correlates in an educational context have yet to be adequately explored. This study investigated academic and other potential correlates of task-unrelated images and thoughts (TUITs) during lectures. 463 undergraduate psychology students participated across three lecture sessions. During lectures, an auditory probe was sounded five times; alerting participants to record whether they were experiencing a TUIT at that moment. Results revealed significant negative correlations between TUIT frequency and age, detail of notes taken and course interest. Also, those seated in the front third of the lecture experienced significantly fewer TUITs. Furthermore, as TUIT frequency increased, there was a trend towards poorer performance in course examinations, which measure the learning of lecture-based content.

Research Highlights

► Detailed note taking is associated with a decline in TUIT frequency. ► Greater interest in the course is associated with a decline in TUIT frequency. ► Students in the front of the lecture theatre experience fewer TUITs than those in the middle and back. ► As TUITs increase, there is a trend towards poorer performance in exams assessing lecture content.


Keywords: Daydreaming; Mind wandering; Seating position; Note taking; Academic performance


I think preview, review and asking questions proactively will also improve focus on lecture context.

Mon

Let's pray for disaster-stricken Japan

Please read my favourite author's writing and let's pray for disaster-stricken Japan

Attitude Is Everything

15-3-2011

Gen,


I suggest you read self-development books along with your wide reading in the sea of INTERNET. Even five minutes per day so that

* you will not get lost and repeat "IB mistakes."(The biggest fear is the fear itself.) ( Law of attractions: all results from attitude, emotion and behavior.)

* you will be calm and peaceful towards the events you are facing daily and response positively,resourcefully and happily and most importantly to enjoy all efforts you have put

* constantly adjust your mind/attitude by thinking from MULTI- ANGLES so as to keep your stand as objective, practical and positive as possible.

* you will have resources of encouragement from your mentors and icons



If you want to be special and different, you need to build a decent fundamental background. "每天真正做好应作的事,管理好自己的心态,财富自然来-打工皇帝黄天佑的哲学" , here 财富 means your study results, your career, your money and health....ＲｅｍｅｍｂｅｒＭＯＮＥＹＡＮＤＹＯＵ？

You is your attitude, your relationship with yourself and others your quality ( Creativity, generosity and emotion control ability and adversity ability...)

The biggest benefit from reading newspaper daily is to care for people living in plights and disasters and learn how they cope with hardships.

Hope you can work really efficiently, kick off bad lifestyle (habituated to sleep late) , stay focus, repeat simple and good habit, put real effort on your study and practice make prefect.

Determination, self confidence, resilience and understanding ... All characters are built by learning from yourself, others, trying and error and communication.

My personal experience from my achievement and failures tell me that self confidence is only built from problem tackling process.

We are all gratified (内心的高兴）to see that your determination to be an exchange student shows you really want to develop your potential from various channels. Then you need to be prepared from now: you've got to have lots of inner energy, self management ability, and good health.


Attitude Is Everything by Jim Rohn






Attitude Is Everything by Jim Rohn






The process of human change begins within us. We all have tremendous potential. We all desire good results from our efforts. Most of us are willing to work hard and to pay the price that success and happiness demand.






Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, produces the intensity of our activity and predicts the quality of the result we receive, is our attitude.






Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.






No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.






If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.






If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected accordingly. Beware of the vandals and thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or seek to steal it away.






Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires. The combination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve that influences all the other areas of our existence.





Mon

The power of dreams and visualisation

I think there is no any age during which there is no challenge and no opportunity. If we think we have no this or that so we cannot do this or that, We have to living with failures forever.


Please read the following article. You can realise Chris 'INSTANT WEALTH- WAKE UP and Dr Chao wah shang's ideas and

NLP ( successful people's thinking systems) all emphasise the power of dreams and visualisation...


我是(Be)﹑我做(Do)﹑我有(Have)
周華山


「是﹑做﹑有」三步曲。首先問﹕我最渴望自己創造怎樣的成果﹖然後問﹕我需要成為怎樣的一個人﹐才能夠吸引如此理想的成果﹖最後問﹕我需要持續練習什麼﹐才讓這個最理想的自己成為習慣﹖


大部份人失敗﹐因為我們的思維是﹕擁有(有)﹑行動(做)﹑成為(是)。我們先擁有理想條件(譬如時間﹑金錢﹑伴侶﹑工作)﹐然後努力去做﹐最後成為理想的人(幸福快樂﹑喜悅自在)。這種思維﹐註定失敗﹐因為只是等待理想環境出現﹐不懂發揮相信的力量。

其實﹐「擁有」從不會讓我們「是﹔相反﹐當我相信自己「是﹐我就馬上「擁有」。

有人問﹕我還未「是」﹐怎能像成功人士般生活﹖等到我擁有美好工作﹑理想上司﹑完美同事﹑舒適家居﹐美滿伴侶﹐我就會成為一個成功快樂的人。事實剛好相反﹕如果等到理想環境出現﹐我才真正快樂﹐我只會習慣挫敗﹑習慣等待﹑習慣拖延﹑焦點總是眼前的困難﹔即使理想環境出現﹐我也沒能力去把握﹐只會重覆自己一直預設的失敗。

所有偉人﹐本來什麼也不是﹐但他們徹底發揮相信的力量﹐持續觀想心中的願景圖﹐公開宣告「我是」﹐讓自己這刻就充滿力量﹐「成為」最美麗的自己﹐讓本來只是觀想的願景圖﹐透過習慣﹐變成事實。高爾夫名將活士﹐初學高爾夫時﹐每天觀想自己猶如世界冠軍般打球﹐細微觀想世界冠軍的每個身體動作﹐完全相信自己「是」﹐完全像世界冠軍一樣去感受和打球。結果他進步神速﹐讓身體習慣了世界冠軍的自然反應﹐最終真的「成為」世界冠軍。

若要成功﹐首先問自己真正的目的地﹐然後﹐內心燃起清晰的願景圖﹐觀想並相信自己已經「是」。觀想﹐就是創造﹐就是相信自己「是」﹐就是讓最美麗的自己提前出現﹐持續練習﹐變成習慣﹐最後成為事實去「擁有」。當我身心一致相信自己「是」一個成功人士﹐這個信念﹐會轉化為物質力量﹐讓我馬上放下過去的壞習慣﹐即時像一個成功人士去思想﹑反應和選擇﹐持續散發積極能量﹐與世間所有積極能量契合﹐其他人就會看到一個積極自信的「成功人士」。

所有心理狀態都會自我複製和應驗。如果我根本不相信自己「是」﹐即使我努力去「做」﹐並「擁有」理想機遇﹐譬如中了六合彩﹐最終也會失去一切﹐因為我的潛意識根本不容許自己「是」。許多人不斷重覆著失敗人士的行為習慣和思維模式﹐卻期望自己成功﹐這是絕頂荒謬的。

有怎樣的信念﹐就有怎樣的想法﹔有怎樣的想法﹐就有怎樣的行為﹔有怎樣的行為﹐就有怎樣的結果。一切結果﹐由信念開始。

我們不必等待理想環境出現﹐才開始幸福。這刻就讓自己「成為」100%的成功人士﹐想像自己「是」成功人士般去感受﹑思想和選擇﹐我就即時體驗到最美麗的自己。快樂﹐就在當下﹐不必外求。

這就是「是﹑做﹑有」三步曲。首先問﹕我最渴望自己創造怎樣的成果﹖然後問﹕我需要成為怎樣的一個人﹐才能夠吸引如此理想的成果﹖最後問﹕我需要持續練習什麼﹐才讓這個最理想的自己成為習慣﹖

讓我們都成為自己理想世界的因﹐讓我們這刻就體驗最美麗的自己。

一切由自己開始﹐由這刻開始。

「吸引力法則」



吸引力法則﹐相信生命一切成果﹐都由自己的信念創造出來。怎樣的信念﹐就會創造怎樣的自己。我們就像一塊磁石﹐不斷發出訊號。發放什麼﹐最終就收回什麼。



一個信念﹐即使錯誤﹐也足以傷害我一生﹐只要我相信。一個男人﹐如果相信女人都是索取者﹐他自然會發現許多證據﹐證明身邊的女人都索取。他的信念會尋找證據去自我肯定。「客觀事實」不會改變﹐直到他的信念改變﹐就會忽然發現﹐女人不一定索取﹐相反﹐索取的男人﹐比比皆是。



信念令我聚焦﹕信念在那裡﹑能量就在那裡﹐成果就在那裡。若要快樂﹐首先要為自己生命一切成果﹐完全負責任﹐坦誠地檢視自己對生命的信念。然後﹐誠實地問自己﹕我要創造一個怎樣的自己﹖我願意為這個目標﹐付出什麼代價﹖

吸引力法則﹐經常被誤解為想發達﹐就會發達。事情當然不是這樣。在這個工作坊裡﹐我們會把「吸引力法則」應用於生命最重要的幾個範疇﹐了解並即時轉化自己過去人生成敗背後的核心信念﹐讓我們掌握到創造成果的竅門和具體方法。

My eye on Oscar Award

1-3-2011



In the past year I watched 7 to 8 movies. Coincidently, all of them have been nominated in the 83th Academy Award. Only “The King’s speech” is an exception that I haven’t seen for myself as Hong Kong seems to be packed too much new year movies to be digestered. However, I was not surprised “The King’s speech” has swept biggest awards from best acting, best actor to best original screenplay and best picture of the year. I just can’t miss it.

Back to my favorite movies, it is hard to choose.

Inception, it won the best sound effect, sound editing, visual effect plus cinematography. It deserves the honors because that is the parts of elements made it popular and unique. Nevertheless it is the film that reveals subconscious effect on our human life in dramatically serious approach impressed me mostly.

After learning NLP theories, I have realized that sub-consciousness controls our 90% or even more thinking system and time. The film implies that beliefs and ideas are like a parasite. Once it is implanted into our subconscious mind, it will grow and eventually rule our conscious mind, determining our life and destiny. That is exactly thoughts become things.



The Social Network, won the best adapted screenplay and the original scores, a bit disappointed for its fans for sure. Well, it was a film that I was compelled to watch during my working hours just before it was off the cinema.



I just couldn’t understand why Facebook originated from a university’s website could spread to the whole world like virus. Many people simply cannot live without it today. So I had to find out myself.



The film was so genuine about the history of Facebook that it looks like a documentary rather a drama. It is a Harvard computer students’ life; it is how the students starts business in the campus; it is a film about friendship, communication, conflict and interest when the business becomes more and more serious and wealth sharing has to be an issue. It strikes me that many problems would be avoided if they had communicated better.



I found that nowadays, although social network, which is supposed to improve communication, has been getting more popular, communication is still the root of conflicts and relationship problems.



I must say that this is a film not only belongs to the young and the internet generation but to their parents because from them, the parents can find the shadows of your sons and daughters, in terms of their language, characters, individuality and potential and even hidden problems. From Facebook founders’ story, I can see the students’ fearless spirit as newbie of entrepreneurs. I really appreciate their ambitions, their try and error approach. Something we need to learn from our children especially when we are getting older and when our experience becomes our burden rather than our drivers.





Facebook’s success indicates that if a product can meet people’s collative need and desire, it will hit the market. The success of Google, E-bay and Alibaba and Skype all prove this rule.



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Just before the Oscar night, I did a movie spree, indulging myself in two Oscar nominates - “127 hours” and “Black Swan” consecutively.



127 hours is a real story of an adventurist Aron Ralston fighting five days of thirst and pain with his arm stuck under a bolder in Blue John Canyon, Utah.

It is one-man, one-line story that I have never seen before. James Franco’s performance was so impressive that I almost identified him as Aron Ralston in the end part of the movie. It is also a film not like a drama but a documentary instead.



What really touched me was throughout the 1 ½ hours, we can’t see any pessimistic feelings from the only character, even facing death. On the contrary, his humorous reflection on his life in the desperate condition brings us so many insights about human weaknesses and strength. He comes to the realization this accident is deemed to happen all because he is too-self-centered and too confident in himself. Everything he has done has led him to this ordeal. He didn’t blame anyone else, but himself. That is the beginning his survival spirit starts to sublime. After that, his dreams, hallucination and memory all fill with fun, love and happiness with his family, friends and his future family, which drives him to make every endeavor to gather his will to break his injured arm, setting him free from the 127-hour’ stuck and evacuating himself from the deep canyon, with his single arm.



There are so many powerful messages from Aron’s deadly adventure -



Habit will affect a person’s fate and attitude will decide a person’s destiny Positive and optimistic attitude always gain control in adversity. Stay optimistic and never give in. Never say DIE.

• We should always adjust our habit and attitude to reduce mistakes to minimum. Bad habits result in big mistakes and decent habits lead to big success.

• Express what you want to tell instantly if possible and thank people you want to thank immediately. You never know when it is the last day you will never have a chance to tell.

• We cannot always change event but we can react. It is our reaction that changes the outcome.

127 hours is a movie for all ages. I fully recommend the your and old to watch.



Well, I have deep mixed feelings about “Black Swan”. While I was awed by Natalie Portman’s brilliant performance, (my best actress in my Oscar award picking), I feel so heavy and sorrow for the protagonists Nina Sayers and her mother’s experiences.

Nina is an emotionally fragile, perfectionist and still a baby sweetie of her mother, a former ballerina and a typically neurotic, overprotective mother. The film disclosed the artists’ darkest life through her struggle for main dual characters. The film approach is a sheer philosophical complexity - to create great art at the sacrifices of great performers -the dual processes of creation and destruction.

Under intense physical and psychological pressures, surrounded by isolation, jealousy and sex assaulting, Nina is psychologically broken-down gradually despite her breakthrough for perfection and her climax in career, bringing a successful debut but a tragic ending.

Throughout the movie, it shrouds with psychologically disturb and horror, anxiety and ugly, dirty human characters. Even with feeling heartbreak and depressed, I didn’t cry until the stage curtain dropped down.

What stroke me is our own life is not short of the senses. Similar tragedies do happen in our society! Whenever we see our children kill themselves despite their affluent life, we cannot deny the fact that parents’ overprotection and dreadful pressure from the society and the education system only do more harm to the young people physically and psychological development, turning them into a more vulnerable, rebellious group.

I believe the film is sending a message that positive thinking system and stress management skills should not be ignored any longer in school curriculum.

I am a typical movie-goer. Sitting in the cinema, not only can I entertain myself with the fun and beauty of the film’s fine art, but experience the journey that the characters are going through and learn the insight of the stories induce to us, meanwhile improving my critical thinking.

A great film can influence our life, inspire our creativity, definitely.

Happiness vs personality and health

Extraxt from "The economist"

http://www.economist.com/node/17722567

http://klaybor.blogspot.com/2011/02/u-bend-of-life.html  (Listen to the article)

Happiness vs personality and health
Two personality traits shine through the complexity of economists’ regression analyses: neuroticism and extroversion. Neurotic people—those who are prone to guilt, anger and anxiety—tend to be unhappy. This is more than a tautological observation about people’s mood when asked about their feelings by pollsters or economists. Studies following people over many years have shown that neuroticism is a stable personality trait and a good predictor of levels of happiness. Neurotic people are not just prone to negative feelings: they also tend to have low emotional intelligence, which makes them bad at forming or managing relationships, and that in turn makes them unhappy.

Whereas neuroticism tends to make for gloomy types, extroversion does the opposite. Those who like working in teams and who relish parties tend to be happier than those who shut their office doors in the daytime and hole up at home in the evenings. This personality trait may help explain some cross-cultural differences: a study comparing similar groups of British, Chinese and Japanese people found that the British were, on average, both more extrovert and happier than the Chinese and Japanese.

Happiness and health

Happiness doesn’t just make people happy—it also makes them healthier. John Weinman, professor of psychiatry at King’s College London, monitored the stress levels of a group of volunteers and then inflicted small wounds on them. The wounds of the least stressed healed twice as fast as those of the most stressed.

At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Sheldon Cohen infected people with cold and flu viruses. He found that happier types were less likely to catch the virus, and showed fewer symptoms of illness when they did. So although old people tend to be less healthy than younger ones, their cheerfulness may help counteract their crumbliness.

Happier people are more productive, too. Mr Oswald and two colleagues, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi, cheered up a bunch of volunteers by showing them a funny film, then set them mental tests and compared their performance to groups that had seen a neutral film, or no film at all. The ones who had seen the funny film performed 12% better.

December, 2010

A breakthrough in U shaped life

3-3-2010
An article in recent “The Economist” discussed happiness vs. ages. It comes to a conclusion that people get happier when they get older. They find that many people travel through a U-BEND OF LIFE and the middle- aged is the unhappiest group among all ages.

Why is that?

First, the middle aged group probably bears the most responsibility from society, family and themselves. Their dreams and expectations are still not fulfilled probably. And their emotion and performance are prone to be influenced by others’ wealth and status and comments.

Second, they may have started to have some health issues and suffered the pain of loss of loved one and friends.

Third, they may have made some mistakes, stuck in their careers or set-backs.

After this age, people tend to be happier and mellow up possibly because they have experienced glories and setbacks. Therefore they are more content to their present life and cherish more on love, friendship and joyful memory.

Do we have to go through the middle age-slump?

The answer is NO. Here are some ideas and advice for sharing:

First, don’t compare your life to others! You will never get a peaceful mind if your psychology is filled up with relative deprivation (相对馈乏). If you have to compare, compare with people who are living in 2 dollar a days or no limbs like NICK VUJICIC.

Second, don’t be jealous of others, you have no idea what effort they have paid. No pain no gain. If you have not paid for something, you don’t deserve to it. Then just take it easy.

Third, be open-minded to learning from successful experiences and lessons by all resources (reading, watching movies, visiting mentors or taking courses, etc.) so that when we become screwed up by fate or circumstances in our lives, we will be prepared to control our emotion and come up with an attitude so as to adjust ourselves to the changes and meet the challenges.

A saying goes by Mark Twain -“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”If we are able to laugh about something that didn’t go too well, we will work through much easily and resourceful.

Unanticipated event and adversity do happen all the time. We cannot control all events but we can control ourselves and response the event in a positive approach..

It is conventional to judge happiness on how much wealth, status and money we have rather than on how health we are, how many friends and happy memory we have and how much we have done to community.

Apparently, we are susceptible to cheated by our own psyche. The genuine happiness is from our own thinking system – that is how we think about happiness, because that is only thing we can control. “NO one is in charge of your happiness except you!” There is a good saying that you are as old as you feel. That’s it.

The movie, "127 hours" that I fully recommend, conveys a powerful message - a sense of love, gratitude and humor is the impetus for us to stay optimistic. Never give in, never say die even at the worst environment as what Aron Ralston encountered.


Here is a list of my favorable “Handbook of Happiness”:

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.

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

5. Make time to pray.

6. Play more games

7. Read more books than you did in last year.

8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day

9. Sleep for 7 hours at least.

10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

11. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their

journey is all about.

12. Don't have negative thoughts for things you cannot control. Instead

invest your energy in the positive present moment.


13. Don't overdo. Keep your limits.

14. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.

16. Dream more while you are awake.

17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

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.

20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems

are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like

algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

23. Smile and laugh more.

24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree...

Society:

25. Call your family often.

26. Each day give something good to others.

27. Forgive everyone for everything.

28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

30. What other people think of you is none of your business.

31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends

will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32. However good or bad a situation is, it will change…

33. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

34. You are only as old as you feel.

35. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.


Further readings:
http://www.economist.com/node/17722567/comments

http://www.economist.com/node/17722567

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/11/when-life-goes-u-shaped/

klaybor.blogspot.com/2011/02/u-bend-of-life.html