As I embark on my happiness project, here are my Twelve Areas of Focus – the areas I will focus my resolutions around each month. My Twelve Commandments are the principles that I hope will guide me as I attempt to stick to my resolutions. And, my Secrets of Adulthood are the lessons I have learned that will inspire me and keep me motivated.
Twelve Areas of Focus:
1. Money
2. Health
3. Marriage
4. Parenthood
5. Attitude
6. Work
7. Friendship
8. Family
9. Spirtuality
10. Community
11. Intellect
12. Laughter
Twelve Commandments:
Secrets of Adulthood:
1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
2. Anyone can give up. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
3. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
4. And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
5. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will never be shortened. Happiness never ceases by being shared.
6. Don’t water your weeds.
7. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
8. Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the ways things turn out.
9. The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks.
10. There is more than one right way.
11. Nothing is funny without humor.
12. The days are long, but the years are short.
13. It will all be ok in the end, if it’s not ok it’s not the end.
14. What is meant to be will be.
15. What doesn’t break you makes you stronger.
16. You get what you expect.
17. Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
18. I will prepare myself and someday my chance will come.
19. What seems to be in the way is the way.
20. Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.
21. It’s all about relationships.
22. Everything in moderation.
23. This too shall pass.
24. You can do it all, but you can’t to it all at the same time.
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