No Bad News Here
How do you handle the bad news?
Here are 9 ways to get past the bad news and have your spirits lifted.
1) Turn off the TV 24 hour news stations. So much emphasis is put on “the commentator” when really all they have is their opinion and facts that seem to make us think their opinion is the only that is true.
2) Read the comics in the daily news paper, read the gardening news and local events to find something you can do to get out of the house.
3) Don’t take life for granted. Live each day to the fullest.
4) “Live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment” Henry David Thoreau
5) Think about the love you have for family, and live and express your love as if it were your last day.
6) Volunteer, there are many people that it would mean the world to, if you helped serve a meal, cut someone’s hair, sat with a loved one that is not feeling well and many more things that can be done just because you want to. Not expecting anything in return.
7)
The American Cancer Society has a program called “Look Good Feel Better.” No Bad News here
This is for women especially, and they are given a large red patent leather bag, with all kinds of cosmetics, they then are taught how to use the cosmetics when they are on Chemo or Radiation treatments. Finally the cosmetologist shows them how to tie their scarfs and wear cute little hats. To volunteer for this program leaves you with so much caring for others that it’s hard to feel depressed when you leave them.
Keep a gratitude journal. Only things you are grateful are recorded in this journal. Go out and buy a beautiful journal, because gratitude deserves to be written on a beautiful page. No recorded bad news here either.
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Be so busy living and leaving your legacy that there is no place in your life for bad news.
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Tonia
Tonia N Smith
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Bad News Got You Down? 9 Ways to Feel Better Fast