9 ways to be happy and make something of your life

 Ways To Be: 9 Ways to be happy and make something of your life

Gordon B Hinckley

Nine Ways To Be: 

1. Be Grateful: To be grateful means feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful. For example I'm grateful for having an amazing family that always supports me. People can be grateful for many things whether it's something big or small. If you're grateful that means you're thankful or you're showing appreciation. Everybody should have something or someone to be grateful for. Everybody should also be grateful for their past even if it's bad it makes you the person you are today. Some people with a bad past say that if a certain moment in their life did not happen they believe they would not be where they are today. Being grateful is in this list of nine ways to be happy because it does in fact make you happy.
"I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past." Mike Rowe


2. Be Smart: Being smart can mean many things for example you can be street smart or can you can be smart in school. Some people are smart in certain subjects like math but maybe they aren't so good with science. I think everybody has knowledge for certain things. Everybody has a weakness.  No one knows everything but some people do know more than others. People can be smart in the decisions they make for themselves. Decision making can be very hard for some people, especially decisions that can possibly change their life. And then there is street smart, street smart is just like decision making I believe. When you are out in public you have to know what you can and can not do. You have to know the people who are surrounding you. The way I would apply being smart to my life is to have as much knowledge as I can, I know there is certain things I won't be able to learn but I will try my best. I will also be smart in my decision making, decision about my future and decisions about the present.
"We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it." Tabatha Coffey


3. Be Involved in Good Works: Being involved in good works means to do be apart in good helpful activities. It can be anything like exercising or helping out other people. Being involved in good works can be helping raise awareness towards something. It can be with breast cancer awareness when people were pink. Also doing charity work to help out the community, cleaning up a certain area, help build something that can benefit others, help make a community garden. It can just be to help those in
need. It can be old, young, friends, family, or just people you don't know who can use an extra hand. Also donating money is a good work. If you are not involved in good works it does not necessarily mean you are bad person it just means that some people are doing more than others to help out other people. You don't lose anything from it people will respect you and later there might be someone there to help you when you need it.
 "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another." Thomas Jefferson

4. Be Clean: To be clean can mean many things. People can be clean by being sanitary. It can be keeping proper hygiene like brushing teeth, using deodorant, and showering. It can also be like keeping your environment like the house, school, streets, room. Also like clean personality. Be nice, helpful, friendly to others, be polite, have manners and having proper language. Another thing you can do to stay clean is stay away from drugs don't go looking for trouble. Don't go looking for fights, Don't drink if you're under age, don,t smoke, no wild parties. To be clean is to always choose the right thing. Also be clean with your body like exercise, eat healthy, be a good, clean person and good things will come to you. I believe the quote means that sometimes being angry can make someone do really bad things in this case it means not clean.
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean." Maya Angelou 

5. Be True: To be true is to be true to yourself. Always be yourself no matter what. If somebody doesn't like you for the real you then you shouldn't be their friend or even hangout with them. Be honest with others be a good friend. Be honest to yourself. It's easier to be yourself than to be somebody else who is constantly trying to impress other with things that are not real.
You only have imperfections if you think there is something you don't like. Be happy and grateful for who you really are. You shouldn't let anyone try to change you.Another way you can be true is by doing the right thing, if you do something bad and you get caught at least be honest and true about it. If you get caught and lie the consequence can be so much bigger. The best you can do is tell the truth.

"Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good." Laetitia Casta

6. Be Positive: To be positive I believe means to not think negative. To not be negative toward yourself or others. A way you  can be positive is by telling a friend they did good on something or that they're doing good. Another way to be positive is to not give up, if you give up that is a sign of you being negative toward yourself and not having confidence. Being confident in the things you do is a way to be positive. Being positive can help you stay healthy mentally and physically. At any point in your life whether good time or bad you should always have a positive attitude. It is always better to be positive during any situation because if bad, having a positive attitude will help you get through it, if good then it will make the situation even so much better. Also surround yourself with positive people, not just people who are positive only when they get the things they want but positive in general. What I am trying to say is surround yourself with people who are Truly positive.


 "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." 
Willie Nelson

7. Be Humble: Being humble shows that you care more about others. Some people think they are better than others but being humble means you do not make others inferior to you. You treat others equally with a positive attitude. Do not let success get to you, do not change the way you are just to make yourself superior to others. Other people have the right to state their opinion and you have the right to state yours but to be humble means to let them have a say no matter who they are. If you are a humble person sometimes you forget about taking care of yourself, you have to remember that even though caring about others is a good thing you can't make yourself unimportant you have to also take  care of yourself. Being humble also means knowing when you, yourself has to get healthy.

"I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others." Carolina Kostner


Be Still: To be still I believe means, to just let life happen. Just look and listen, look and listen at the things that are around you, look at the world. Being still lets you think and look at the world in a whole new perspective. Being still helps you not get into trouble. Sometimes in life you have to step back at some point and look at what you are doing try to think if you like the way you are living.
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." Deepak Chopra

9. Be Prayerful

Final Reflection: Overall the 9 ways has taught me some new ways to live my life. Something new I would apply to my life is to be still. To be still means to just let life happen. You look at things around you and you look at the world differently from what other people would. You look at the world with more calmness and you don't over think it. You don't have to be still all the time but once in awhile, being still can help you relax and help you relieve stress. I would also like to start being more humble, to be humble would mean that I am not selfish and that I think about others. To reach my goal of being a humble person I would start to help others when it is needed. I would also have to start listening to other peoples opinion and try seeing there point of view and not just disagree with them right away. 

The 9 Ways Concluding Words Gordon B Hinckley

" There they are, nine Be's which, if observed, will bring handsome dividends to any young 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 a 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 have 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 yuo happiness-things such as popularity and posessions and satisfying your baser 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 railroad grade crossing, signs of warning were once common. Two cross arms were emblazoned with the words, "stop, look, listen." They meant that a train could be roaring down the tracks and you had better been alert.

I was riding a train in the midewest years ago. I looked out the window to my left. A road ran parallel to the tracks. A car with a boy and a girl was speeding down the road a little faster than the train. The car moved ahead until I can no loner 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 onto the other side. There was a mangled car. Police cars soon converged, followed by the ambulance. the boy amd 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, and pass quickly. Today is your day of resolution. Promise yourself to make something good of (your) precious life"