Tips for a Good Life Thread

mariano rivera

This is the "Tips for a Good life" Thread



One tip per post please


OK. to get the ball rolling



1. Buy your significant other Flowers on random occasions for no reason at all

Pherekydes

Plant your garden with vegetables.

Mr Benevolent

Buy you significant other a field of vegetables and marjuana.

Megglet

Leaves of three, let it be.
Leaves of four, eat s'more!

mariano rivera

mariano rivera wrote: »

1. Buy your significant other Flowers on random occasions for no reason at all

unless they don't like flowers and think it's a waste

Yamanoto

Do the shake n' vac and put the freshness back.

Richard Hillman

Regular excercise

Johro

bluewolf wrote: »

unless they don't like flowers and think it's a waste

A venus flytrap for them.

nipps

randomly pay for someone else's shopping

FanadMan

Empty bowels on a daily basis.....

Lionel Messy

Don't go to school.

Scioch

Dont pick it, you'll only make it bleed.

kryogen

Get your retaliation in first

mikom

Good fences/hedges make good neighbors.

Lisandro

Don't cross the road until the little man shows green.

Tazium

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Regular sexcercise

FYP

xzanti

Trust me on the sunscreen

seamus

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth

Lollers

Share a laugh everyday, " laughter is the shortest distance between two people".

Teyla Emmagan

Be kind.

mikom

thread needs more Felicity Kendal............ http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-1253774-00777E4A00000258-277_224x331.jpg

crazy cabbage

sbsquarepants

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Beruthiel

Quit worrying about the future, it won't turn out anything like you imagined it would.
So stressing about it will be a total waste of time and energy.

candy-gal1

Make the most of every situation.

Be happy as best as you can.

Treat others like youd like to be treated, unless theyve fecked you over first of course.

Have savings where possable, even if its only a small amount.

Always have a passport.

Appreciate what you have.

Never settle, always wait for the best, and love with all of your heart when/if you have it.

love, look after and just be yourself as you want.

be truthful.

look after your skin and keep as healthy as you can.

Spend time by/at the sea as much as you can, it helps your mind.

Stiffler2

Best to keep your mouth shut & appear a fool

than to open it and prove it

trooney

Don't forget your towel...

Shryke

Be critical when you feel it. It's a good thing.

Don't suffer bad company.

If you think you might have any health concerns always see a doctor.

Inertia is the enemy. (one if my own personal mantras)

To paraphrase the Buddha, the key to existence is to have no fear and rely on yourself.
(fear is the mind killer, fear is the little death - ha ha, that one is Dune).

eviltwin

Choose your battles

Don't sweat the small stuff

Drink more water

Always be nice to people remember manners cost nothing

Don't be afraid to stand up for what you feel is right

Always wear clean underwear

if in doubt
whip it out

Mr Benevolent

Shryke wrote: »

Be critical when you feel it. It's a good thing.

Feel what?

Shryke

Confab wrote: »

Shryke wrote: »

Be critical when you feel it. It's a good thing.

Feel what?

When you feel genuinely critical. I'm not speaking Dutch.

smash

Never go asleep on an argument.

boobar

don't get old

christmas2012

get botox - it defys gravity

shopaholic01

Try to have at least one person in your life who knows the real you, and who won't judge you for your eccentricites.

puffishoes

Buy a good quality Coffee grinder.

Swampy

Eat real butter not poxy vegetable spreads.

dyer

i read this whenever i need to get a better perspective on things. taken from here.

The One Ingredient Necessary for Accepting Yourself

If You Have Trouble Loving Yourself
Know this:

Love is action.

Self-love is not how you feel about yourself. It’s what you do for yourself. You can only love yourself by doing, not thinking. Execute feats of love, feats of respect, for your own benefit.

First of all, worship your body. There is nothing on this earth you will ever do that does not require its cooperation. Be nice to it. Get it into great shape. Don’t poison it, don’t abuse it, don’t neglect it. An unwillingness to worship your body will undermine any attempt to love yourself. Love it with your actions, or it won’t love you back. If you are rude to it, it will hinder you, embarrass you, and even kill you.

Learn. Endow yourself with skills, languages, abilities and arts. Developing skills is the most immediate and liberating way to shoot your self-esteem through the roof. What qualities would make you love or admire someone else? Kindness, humor, thoughtfulness, ability? Cultivate and improve those qualities.

A lot of people seem to think indulging or gratifying yourself is the same as loving yourself. Magazines and commercials say “Love yourself,” or “You’re worth it,” and then tell you to buy something or eat chocolate cake. Finding some reward and indulging in it is not love. Often it’s just abuse. Comforting yourself is not loving yourself. Beware the draw of comfort; seeking comfort is often a response to fear, not love. Don’t appease yourself, revere yourself.

Do work you love. Even if you make less money. Even if you disappoint others. Working a job for which you have no passion is betraying yourself, for eight hours a day. Nobody can love themselves while they subject themselves to forty hours of uninspiring work every week. If it isn’t practical to leave your current line of work just yet, start planning your escape now. That’s love. Do not resign a third of your life to someone else’s purpose. Dignity is worth any pay cut. If you don’t like your job, you are only getting better at being resentful.
The Respect Habit

The quality of your actions matters. Do everything with care. Pick up and put down objects as if you respect them. Don’t just drop yourself into a seat, sit down with purpose. Respect everything you buy, borrow, give away or dispose of.

Respect your time. Spend your time on things that put you into a better situation in life, on things that make you more capable, rather than on things that make you feel good for the moment. You will love yourself for doing this.

Respect other people.

Respect their skills and their virtues. Their flaws too. Respect their thoughts. Let them finish what they are saying, don’t interrupt, don’t be dismissive. Try to understand what they’re getting at. Let them be who they are. I am convinced that people are exactly as judgmental about themselves as they are about others. Find the value in others, or you will never see it in yourself. Forget the ways in which you would like other people to be different. Forgive them, and forgive yourself. Forgive yourself every time you wake up, and every time you go to bed. Forgive yourself every time you screw up.

Respect the world around you. The spectacles, the scenes, the details. Respect buildings and the people who built them. Respect businesses and the people who run them. Respect the trees. Respect the tiny, yellow-flowered weed that vehemently persists in thrusting itself up through the cracks in the sidewalk. It invests all its energy in growing, and it absolutely insists on being itself.

Love is picking up the dumbells the moment you start making excuses. Love is doing your scariest task first thing in the morning.

It’s not quitting early and treating yourself to a beer. It’s not telling yourself it’s okay for your apartment to be a pigsty.

There is a choice in every moment, between acting out of love, or out of fear. At any instant, you can stop and look at the moment, and it is clear which action is which. You will make a habit out of choosing one or the other.

You won’t be able to have respect if you do not make a habit of recognizing value. There is value in every person, object, place and moment, but you may miss it if you hold faults to be more important.

Find the endless value in the world around you, and it will be easy to find the endless value in yourself. Eventually you will no longer see a difference between the two.

af_thefragile

Stop watching tv...

El Guapo!

smash wrote: »

Never go asleep on an during an argument.

Learned that one the hard way.

Blondini

Try to move on from bad experiences - you'll never change what's been and gone...

oddman2

dyer wrote: »

TLDR

My tip: don't make overly long posts in after hours. :pac:

Dr.Strange

Wipe your bottom thoroughly after doing a Poo.

Knex*

Take some time to sit alone, relax and think. Allowing yourself to reach deep cognitive thoughts and reflect on things is the best way to expand your mind and become a better person. You'd be surprised at what you can learn when you take time like this.

Shenshen

Regularly brush your teeth.

Someone already said the one about the Towel. So I will just add that one should not underestimate the benefits of Mindfulness Meditation.

Claasman

washing machines live longer with calgon

SuperGrover

seamus wrote: »

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth

And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'cos there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Claasman

washing machines live longer with calgon

Feeona

Truly believe that the grass is greener on YOUR side.