Personal Development Attribute

Ways to Be

9 Ways to be Happy and Make something out of your life

Gordon B. Hinckley

·        1. Be Grateful

·        Reflection: Being grateful is something everyone should be at this point in their lives. People should be grateful for having a home, food, and clothes and just in general everything they have in their lives. Even for the smallest things you should be grateful for because other people in the world are dying over food, they don’t have clothes, shelter, or let alone any basic necessities to survive.

·        Quote:”I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it.” –Sonam Kapoor 

2. Smart

Reflection: Being smart is something that anyone can achieve if you put your mind to it and if you want to fill yourself with knowledge. Being smart to me is a practice of trial and error, out of those times you failed you learn something out of it and you can apply it to whatever you have to do from there. Being smart is also a privilege because overall having an education is a privilege because other kids around the world don’t ever get the opportunity to even get educated and it is something to definitely be thankful for. Being smart isn’t something hard for anyone to achieve it all has to do with how much effort you put in your education, and how much you care about yourself. Overall, being smart anyone can be if you put effort into your education and if you care about yourself enough to have the ability to learn and be filled with knowledge.

Quote:  “A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. – Roy H. Williams

3.       Be Involved in Good Works

1.         Reflection: To be involved in good works is not only good for the people, but also good for you. Doing good work, for instance, community work, beautification of a city, or something like that can benefit the community as a whole and you because you’ll feel good for helping and participating in a healthy positive way.  Doing good work can also give people a good idea of you because actions speak louder than words in many occasions. Involving yourself in good works can help shape your state of mind into being more generous, thoughtful, and caring of the community and overall the planet.  All in all doing good work, is really beneficial and not a waste of time.

2.       Quote: “You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.” – Sally Hawkins.

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4. Be clean

1. Reflection: Being clean overall should play a huge roll in someone’s life daily. Being clean and taking care of your hygiene can really speak great about you. Being clean can mean that you don’t like being dirty, smelly, and overall disorganized with your cleanliness. Being clean is something everyone should take as a privilege because other kids in other countries don’t ever get the opportunity to live in a well cleaned environment like we all do. Being clean can also say a lot about a person and how well they take care of their personal space and their hygiene. Hygiene overall, is very important because no one likes someone that smells like sweat and what not. Not being clean is disgusting and no one likes to be around a dirty person. All in all being clean says a lot of a person and it is not that hard to follow.

2. Quote: “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw

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5. Be true

1. Reflection: Being true to yourself and overall everyone is really a key concept to being successful in life. Being truthful to others is important because no one likes being lied to and to be deceived it is offensive overall in any situation and lying is never the answer to fix anything or overcome something. If you’re always telling the truth then people will want to work with you and be your partner in any business decisions or overall just a normal friendship. I know how it feels to be lied to and it is not fun, it’s actually really disappointing to have someone lie to your face and not tell you the truth. Since I do not like being lied to I do not do it to others because I know I do not like it so it is not worth it to do it to someone else and overall hurting their feelings because it is not worth it. Lying is never the answer to any situation because  you’re only digging a hole you cannot get yourself out of, and it is simply not worth any of your time to lie. All in all, always being truthful and being honest can get you to the right places, but if you’re lying and being dishonest then there are repercussions to pay for.

2. Quote: “Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.” – John Wooden

6. Be Positive

1. Reflection: Being positive is always key to being successful and being a good person in life. If you look at the bright side of things then you’ll realize that whatever you did was good and that more good will come to you. Being positive overall is beneficial because people are going to want to work with you and become partners with you in anything if you have the right attitude towards things. Being positive can also be something influential to people not only because it is a great thing, but they’re going to want to aspire to be like you and will want to be around you for a while.  To add on, being positive can bring so much happiness to life, and it can make you feel good of things because you’re not thinking negative and being a bad person. In conclusion being positive is key to a better life, and I think it should be practiced every day to take it in as something new. 

                 There is plenty of examples out there that show how to be positive. For instance, you can always go to work, school, or any place with a huge smile on your face and being positive around people. You can also do things with positiveness and  thinking to yourself that you can do it and to push yourself. In addition , another example of being positive is showing people you care and being there for others in time of need.  Another perfect example of being positive is looking at the bright things of situations and thinking of a positive way to resolve that issue.  All in all being positive should be something everyone  should be doing and incorporating it into their daily lives. 

2. Quote: “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive result.” – Willie Nelson

7. Be Humble

1. Reflection: Being humble is something everyone should do because we all start from a really low part of our lives. Being humble shows just how much you can stay real to your roots and where you came from either if it’s from poverty or you being rich. Always giving back to others is a way of you being humble because you remember about others and you’re giving some of your input. Being humble means that even though you’re successful and have everything that you wanted, that you still haven’t forgotten about the people that pushed you to be successful and to be the person you have become.  In addition, being humble means that even though you have all the success you could of always wanted, that you haven’t forgot of where you came from and how much you struggled to be at the point that you are in your life.

Being humble to people can mean many different things, but in reality it means staying true to yourself and not forgetting where you came from overall. For example, if someone becomes a millionaire, they have everything they wanted growing up, and are successful in their profession yet they still manage to face the hardships they faced, and visit the places where the people that have nothing influenced them to become someone in life that’s being humble because you will never forget where you came from.  Overall even if you get to be successful, you should always remember about where you came from, and how you struggled to be at that very moment in your life.

2. Quote: “Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.” – A.R. Rahman 

8. Be Still

1. Reflection: I’m not really sure what it means to be still, but I assume it means to be at a stable point in your life, and having everything together. Having everything together and being prepared, means being responsible, and caring about yourself. No one in the world is going to care about you like you do for yourself. Being at a stable place means that everything you worked for has fallen into place and that you got it, you’ve made it, and now you have everything you hoped of and dreamed of. Having everything together also means that you busted your butt of, never had no for an answer and persevered in any situation that came your way. Being still to me is being positive, having everything together, and being true to yourself.

Being still to me is someone being ambitious, and wanting more than they know they can achieve. It also means to always listen to the people that are guiding you on the right path and proving to them that you can and will do whatever you have to do to be successful. Being still can also mean having a prerogative to yourself in becoming a successful person, and showing everyone that you have made it regardless the obstacles you had to face. Being still to me also means being obedient, and listening to anything someone is telling you to do. Sometimes listening can lead someone in the right path and it can mean nothing but success.

2. Quote: “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra 

9. Be Prayerful

1. Reflection: This is going to be a short reflection to have in mind that prayer is everything, and it should be an essential key to life, Without prayer life is nothing.

2. Quote: “God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”

Reflection

The 9 different ways to be happier and make something out of your life are for sure something that is very influential, and a sort of inspiration. The 9 ways are nothing but positive ways to just lead your life in the right path away from evil and any negative thing that life can bombard you with. The 9 ways are list of words that can mentor someone into becoming a better person in life and to better themselves as they grow as individual. Always being positive and being happy can be a good thing because many good things come with living the 9 different ways of being happier and making something out of your life. The 9 ways can also be taken as a list that someone should practice to better them and be in the righteous path. If In a way this list is also contradicting because in order to have good you have to have bad and in order to have bad you have to have good. It can be both vise-versa, but if applied correctly there will be a course of change in someone’s life. The 9 ways of living a happier life are very influential for many reasons. One is because people are probably applying it to their everyday life skills, and developing from it. Another reason is because this can be a worldwide thing and it can influence people in the right and positive direction.