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Being Happy in the Spot you Inhabit

 I am now on page 94 of my upcoming book, The Daily Uplift. Getting up early has yielded over 35,000 words. Not bad for soeone that has very little college education. But the experience I gave myself in this location in cyberspace fron 2006-2010 is paying off. 

I decided to share something I wrote just this morning. If you have a Kindle or Kindle app, you can go there and download some of the ebooks I referred to. Make me happy and put a few quarters in my bank account.

Be Happy Where You Are

 

“If you can’t be happy where you are, it’s a cinch you can’t be happy where you ain’t.” ~ Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

As a project, I once wrote a series of eBooks. The series, still available on Kindle is called Ten Poems for a Buck. Most of the times there was more than 10 poems and the book this one was poems based on positive quotes. I thought I would write some thoughts concerning the quote above before sharing the poem I wrote about it.

You hear all the time that people are not happy where they are, where they live, work, go to school, or where they worship. You can’t do anything to make them happy. It seems like they are not happy unless they are complaining about something.

Too many are walking around like they are “Joe Shoblotknik” the character from the Lil’ Abner comic strip that had the dark cloud following him everywhere he went. He wasn’t happy and it was his goal to make everyone around him miserable. As Zig Ziglar said, he was the type of person who could light up a room-by leaving it.

If you are like poor old Joe and can’t be happy where you are, it’s a cinch that you are headed towards a miserable life. You need to look up at the sky and not down at the ground.  And please turn off the TV news.

Start by complimenting yourself. If you wake up in the morning, celebrate a new day of life. Tell yourself that you are a winner. Then tell others around you that you appreciate them and that they are a winner. Find something to compliment them for.

Enjoy the things you have, such as your home, transportation, job, and friends. Look around and enjoy nature. Be positive where you are, and you will find positivity wherever you go.

 

If you’re noy happy in the place that you’re in

Now is the time to begin

Find joy in that spot

Or where you go, you are not

Find it and soon you will win

 

Water your grass and it will be green on your side too.


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