Five Simple Rules To Be Happy
 | Author:
Ellie West
Inside Inspiration: Certified NLP Coach/Practitioner Of Hypnosis and Timeline Therapy |
Five Simple Rules To Be Happy Ellie West Take time this last week of 2022 to reflect and embrace the simple things in life.
Look around, and see the miracles. They are everywhere.
Happiness is a choice. Choose joy, the simplest form of gratitude. Create beautiful moments...each day is a gift.
As we gently slide into 2023, I want to share a gem of a story... a story worth sharing.
Mrs. Jones, a 92-year-old, petite, well-poised, and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home. Her husband of 70 years passed away, making a move necessary.
After many hours of waiting patiently in the nursing home lobby, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, the attendant provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window.
“I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just wait.”
“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it’s how I arrange my mind. I have already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up.
I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away just for this time in my life.”
She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you’ve put in.
So, my advice would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing.”
And with a smile, she said: “Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give more. 5. Expect less, & enjoy every moment.
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“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln
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