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Live  your life on the basis of what is possible, right and good for you instead of what you or others think you should do. Find  out what you want and what you are good at, value those, and take actions designed to fulfill your potential. Respect  your own needs. Identify what really fulfills you – not just immediate gratification. Respecting your deeper needs will increase   your sense of worth and well-being.       Make decisions . Practice making and implementing positive choices flexibly but firmly, and trust yourself to deal with the consequences.

21  Keys to a Happy Life Compliment three people everyday. Watch a sunrise. Be the first to say "Hello." Live beneath your means. Treat everyone as you want to be treated. Never give up on anybody; miracles happen. Forget the Jones’s. Remember someone’s name. Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage. Be tough-minded, but tender hearted. Be kinder than you have to be. Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Keep your promises. Learn to show cheerfulness even when you don’t feel it. Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years. Leave everything better than you found it. Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do. When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day. Don’t rain on other people’s parades. Don’t waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them. Keep some things to yourself and don’t promote havoc by backstabbing people you lo

Prayer Direct our actions, Lord, by your holy inspiration and carry them forward by your gracious help, that all our works may begin in you and by you be happily ended. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen. via EWTN  "Lenten Reflections" Be sure to click here for a history lesson about why the forty days are called lent. .

Lenten Question Q: Why are the forty days called Lent? A: They are called Lent because that is the Old English word for spring, the season of the year during which they fall. This is something unique to English. In almost all other languages its name is a derivative of the Latin term, or "the forty days." via EWTN  "Lenten Reflections" Click here for some Lenten fasting ideas .

The Smile Virus Author Unknown Smiling is infectious,  you catch it like the flu, When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.  I passed around the corner  and someone saw my grin  When he smiled I realized I'd passed it on to him .  I thought about that smile then I realized its worth,  A single smile, just like mine could travel round the earth.  So, if you feel a smile begin,  don't leave it undetected Let's start an epidemic quick,  and get the world infected! From Inspiration Peak