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1. Always have something to look forward to ...each day, week, month, year. Know what that is and write it down. Keep a Thrill Calendar, a special calendar just for recording activities and events you are looking forward to. Make sure most days have at least one enjoyable thing planned, even if it's simply curling up with a good book or watching your favorite show.
   
   
2. Have a support network...friends, therapist, coach, groups, church, colleagues- people you can speak openly to. Keep a box, a file or a drawer in which to store pleasant letters and mementos that remind you that you are loved. Keep a smile book into which you write down all the names of people who make you smile when you think of them.
   
   
3. Take deep breaths often. The extra oxygen to your brain will clear out useless brain cells.
   
   
4. Know what your purpose is- what is the point of what you're doing? Is it still relevant? Ask this often both in the big picture and with your day-to-day activities.
   
   
5. Know what your strengths are. Find ways to reaffirm your greatness.
   
   
6. Keep your own yellow pages with your favorite places, resources and ideas for future adventures.
   
   
7. Always have something enlightening you're reading. Keep a list of books you're looking forward to reading; keep a list of music you want to own, and movies you want to see. Store the lists in your yellow pages.
   
   
8. Be informed about the world by choosing a few trusted news sources and limiting the amount of time you spend on "The News".
   
   
9. Plan to give yourself the time you need to do what you need to do. Then add 10-20% more time.
   
   
10. Get plenty of fresh air, vitamins, fresh foods, exercise
    
    
11. Look for the humor. What's funny about this?
    
    
12. Celebrate often.
    
    
13. Stay in the love...a reminder for those times when a loved one is challenging you to the breaking point. Remember the love you hold in your heart. Take the time to really remember it before taking an action you may regret.
    
    
14. Make it a habit to be at least 10 minutes early for everything
    
    
15. Develop pleasant routines. Create short and long versions. Routines ground us.
    
    
16. Plant little surprises for yourself- as well as for loved ones- in odd places.
    
    
17. Keep a success journal
    
    
18. Know what your bank balance is
    
    
19. Know what your net worth is. (Everything you own minus everything you owe)
    
    
20. When you feel uncomfortable around a person or group, ask what your intuition or body is trying to tell you.
    
    
21. Develop your own list of trusted professionals before you actually need one.
    
    
22. Know your top 5 values. When you are indecisive about something, hold the question up against those values.
    
    
23. If you can't decide which thing to do, roll the dice.
    
    
24. Always keep your gas tank half full
    
    
25. Always have cash in your wallet; stash a $5 in your car
    
    
26. Form one new life-enhancing habit a month.
    
    
27. Be in the habit of looking ahead in order to feel in control of your life. In the morning look ahead to the end of the day; at the end of the day look ahead to tomorrow; at the end of the week look ahead to next week; at the end of the month look ahead to next month...
    
    
28. Keep track of your commitments in one place. To whom do you have outstanding promises? To do what? By when?
    
    
29. Allow unstructured time for your muse to romp.
    
    
30. To capture your brilliant ideas, keep pen and paper wherever you regularly go. In your brief case or purse; in the car; the bathroom, the bedside, with the remote
    
    
31. Create sanctuary for yourself. A favorite reading chair with good lighting, goody bag in your purse; toys in a basket; headset, music etc
    
    
32. Create Oasis Time; special time; Magic Time ...time for your pure enjoyment Keep a list with ideas for those short periods of time when you could do something you enjoy, but can't think of what it is.
    
    
33. Be mindful of language and self-talk
    
    
34. Keep a house troll to yell at and blame as needed.
    
    
35. Identify the roles you play in the world (director, member, parent, spouse, friend, partner, poet, writer, teacher...) and identify the ones most important today. Reflect on these relationships. Ask if there is something you want to give or ask for. Would you like to surprise someone maybe?
    
    
36. What are your top 5 most favorite foods? How can you have more of them?
    
    
37. What are your 5 favorite activities? How can you do them more often?
    
    
38. Complete something that's been hanging over your head for a long time.
    
    
39. Work on forgiveness. Is someone still causing you pain? What are you doing to salve the wound? How are you holding it?
    
    
40. Set goals you know you can win.
    
    
41. What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? What small thing can you do toward fulfilling your dream?
    
    
42. Pay attention to what you care about, and it will flourish. When you tend to your garden or even a single plant you are investing in their well-being. Watering, feeding, pruning, talking, misting.... this care-taking which stimulates caring feelings, can be profoundly satisfying.
    
    
43. When trying to focus on a task, keep a cookie jar close by into which you can toss any passing (distracting) thoughts - especially new and wonderful ideas- to feed to your muse at another time.
    
    
44. When feeling blue, get up and do something.
    
    
45. Keep your goals visible so you don't forget about them.
    
    
46. Design a Mental Movie of your daily routine to remind of the important daily things you want to remember.
    
    
47. For daily planning: Divide a colorful index card in half. On the left write down your appointments; on the right jot down the 3 or 4 most important things to do today. On the back of the card you can write all the other things you want to accomplish. Keeping only a few visible at one time, simplifies what your brain is taking in.
    
    
48. Create some friendly 'calling' cards with your name, phone, email and a favorite quote or something you would like to share with people you meet.
    
    
49. Create special cards with quotes and uplifting thoughts to leave anonymously and to drop in with your paid bills.
    
    
50. Follow a regular practice, be it exercise, meditating, reading, writing so long as it is fulfilling and you can commit to it as a staple part of your life. The stability of having a consistent practice can be a comfort in times of change or stress.