Letters

The Long View

We can change the concept that to make a change must be painful … let’s show how this can bring us the peace we seek in a pleasurable awareness. Discuss that this is all the journey, and, in the end, it is only the journey that has any meaning. The destination is only a period at the end of a long passage of thoughts and ideas we manifest.

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.

3. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement: “My purpose is to __________ today.”

4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds, and walnuts.

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

7. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a college kid with a maxed-out charge card.

9. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

12. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

13. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

14. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

15. No one is in charge of your happiness — except you.

16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In five years, Will this matter?”

17. Forgive everyone for everything.

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

19. Faith heals everything.