20 Tips for Making 2009 a Positive Year!! by Jon Gordon

  

20 Tips for Making 2009 a Positive Year!
By America's Energy Coach Jon Gordon

1. Take a 10-30 minute "Thank you" walk every day. While you walk practice gratitude. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.

 

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Buy a lock if you have to.

 

3. Buy a TIVO, tape your late night shows and get more sleep - it's the
    ultimate energizer.

 

4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement: My
     purpose is to___________ today.

 

5. Live with the 3 E's. Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy.

 

6. Read more books than you did in 2008.

 

7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, tai chi, qigong and prayer.
   They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.

 

8. Do the "one thing" you have always wanted to do.

 

9. Dream more while you are awake.

 

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less foods that
      are manufactured in plants.

 

11. Mentor someone and be mentored by someone.

 

12. Engage in daily random acts of kindness.

 

13. Clear your clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new
      and flowing positive energy into your life.

 

14. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the  past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

 

15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply  part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

 

16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

 

17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.

 

18. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements:

      I am thankful for __________.  Today I accomplished____________.

 

19. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

 

20. Enjoy the ride. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy it.

The article above was excerpted from Jon Gordon, America's "Energy Coach" http://www.jongordon.com/www.jongordon.com/. It is reprinted with permission. You may share this newsletter with your family, friends and associates as long as you do not edit the content or links. Copyright 2009, all rights reserved.