Be Happy :)

Yesterday I watched a video on TED.com about how if you are happy you will be more successful rather than success making you happy.  It really made me think about how I want to be a happier person and hopefully more successful as well.  So they have found that there steps you can take to retrain your brain to be more positive.
1) 3 gratitudes - 3 new things for 21 days you are grateful for.
2) Journal daily about something good that has happened in the past 24hrs
3)Exercise
4)Meditate
5) Random acts of kindness daily
So for the next 21days I am going to try this out here and see how it goes. I have attempted to embed the video at the bottom of the blog... hopefully it works.

Day 1
Gratitude
1- for my husbands ability to deal with my craziness
2- that I have finally found a way to lose weight & not feel like I'm dieting
3- all of our bill will be paid this week

Good thing that happened-
  Lat night I slept, which may not seem so great but it was wonderful!..  I generally wake up at 430 every morning, if I am lucky I fall back asleep till 630( I have no good reason to be up that early).  This morning I didn't get up til 630 to go to the bathroom and then went back to sleep til 8am. For a change I actually feel like I got a good nites sleep. It is a fabulous feeling to not be tired in the morning.

Exercise
I had planned to walk with my husband this morning (I usually work out 2 or 3 times a week) but I have a nail appointment this morning and won't have time.

Meditate
this one I will have to work on for tomorrow ... hmmm

Kindness
I will also be working on this for tomorrow.  I can't think of anything especially kind I have done in the last 24hrs

In a week we will see if I notice any improvement in my outlook :) Wish me luck!


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