Nine Ways to Be Happy and Make Something of your Life
Gordon B. Hinckley
1. Be Grateful
To be grateful means feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness. A couple ways you can show acts of gratitude are by complimenting people on their shoes, shirt, or hair. You can also show gratitude by leaving a note on someones windshield with a nice message. You can also show gratitude by telling your mom how much she means to you.
2.Be Smart
To be smart means to think about doing something and showing intelligence. Someways you can show you are smart are by acting responsibly showing that you are a smart person. Another way you can be smart is by always make the right choices. If you dont make the right choice that will make you look unintelligent.
3.Be Involved in Good Works
Being involved in good works can mean that you help out others when they are in need. It can also mean that you can volunteer in like a family center or a foster home. Another thing it can mean is to do a good work when you are working or doing a job. "Dont worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you." - Ice Cube
4.Be Clean
Being clean not only means having personal hygiene and showering. Being clean can also mean to be drug free. For example not having any drugs or alchohol in your system. Not just drugs and alchohol but any other vice that you have. Another meaning of being clean can mean taking care of your hygiene. For Example, showering is one of the biggest parts of your hygiene. Another one is brushing your teeth 3 times a day dail.
5.Be True
To be true to yourself takes courage. It requires you to be introspective, sincere, open-minded and fair. It does not mean that you are inconsiderate or disrespectful of others. It means that you will not let others define you or make decisions for you that you should make for yourself.
6.Be Positive
To be positive can mean many things. One thing is keeping your head up and seeing the best outcome of something. You can also kepp away the bad vibes and just think to yourself of all the CTR things that you have done that make you a positive person.
7.Be Humble
To be humble means having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance. A couple examples of being humble would be
8.Be Still
To be still can mean that you take some time out of your day and do nothing. It sounds kinda wierd but thats one thing that being still can be. For Example you can get home after a day at work and sit on your couch and do nothing. You can be Still by keeping things to yourself. For Example dont spread rumors or say stuff that can get you into any sort of problems.
2.Be Smart
To be smart means to think about doing something and showing intelligence. Someways you can show you are smart are by acting responsibly showing that you are a smart person. Another way you can be smart is by always make the right choices. If you dont make the right choice that will make you look unintelligent.
3.Be Involved in Good Works
Being involved in good works can mean that you help out others when they are in need. It can also mean that you can volunteer in like a family center or a foster home. Another thing it can mean is to do a good work when you are working or doing a job. "Dont worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you." - Ice Cube
4.Be Clean
Being clean not only means having personal hygiene and showering. Being clean can also mean to be drug free. For example not having any drugs or alchohol in your system. Not just drugs and alchohol but any other vice that you have. Another meaning of being clean can mean taking care of your hygiene. For Example, showering is one of the biggest parts of your hygiene. Another one is brushing your teeth 3 times a day dail.
5.Be True
To be true to yourself takes courage. It requires you to be introspective, sincere, open-minded and fair. It does not mean that you are inconsiderate or disrespectful of others. It means that you will not let others define you or make decisions for you that you should make for yourself.
6.Be Positive
To be positive can mean many things. One thing is keeping your head up and seeing the best outcome of something. You can also kepp away the bad vibes and just think to yourself of all the CTR things that you have done that make you a positive person.
7.Be Humble
To be humble means having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance. A couple examples of being humble would be
8.Be Still
To be still can mean that you take some time out of your day and do nothing. It sounds kinda wierd but thats one thing that being still can be. For Example you can get home after a day at work and sit on your couch and do nothing. You can be Still by keeping things to yourself. For Example dont spread rumors or say stuff that can get you into any sort of problems.
"There they are, nine Be's which, if observed, will bring handsome dividends to any man or woman. They will add sparkle to your days and peace to your nights. They will save you from heartache and pain. They will bring purpose into your life and give direction to your energies.
They will bring you friends of your own kind. They will protect you from associations that would pull you down and deflect you from your course.
This is time to be happy. This is a time to feel joy and make friends and enjoy the best this life has to offer. What i tried to put forth ... are simply a few suggestions, gained from many years of living, to help you do just that. The world will tell that certain kinds of things will bring you happiness-things such as popularity and possessions and satisfying your braser desires.
If today you find yourself only drifting as a leaf in a stream, get hold of yourself and determine you will do better.
At railrioad grade crossing, signs of warning were once common. Two cross arms were embazoned with the words, "Stop, Look, Listen." They meant that a train could be roaring down the tracks and you had better be alert.
I was riding in the midwest years ago. I looked out the window to my left. A road ran parallel to the tracks. A little faster than the train. The car moved ahead until I can no longer see it. Suddenly, the locomotive whistle sounded and the train screeched to a halt as the brakes gripped the wheels. We looked out the window on to the other side. There was a mangled car. Police cars soon converged, followed by the ambulance. The boy and girl were both dead. The road they were traveling crossed the tracks. They did not stop, look, or listen. It all happened in an instant.
The better way to Be is the way of these nine Be's.
The years will inevitably pass, amd pass quickly, Today is your day of resolution. Promise yourself to make something good of your precious life."
