Very Happy Phil

Hello Very Happy People!

Happy people are kind and kind people are happy! Fact! Scientists have proved it. We can increase our happiness through kindness! I will give you an example; Happiness researchers asked students to perform five random acts of kindness a week. The acts would benefit a person(s) and be at a material cost or time cost to the students. Those that carried out all their acts in one day increased their happiness significantly. Lesson; If we carry out lots of kind acts every Monday we will feel lots of happiness every day! I have included an inspiring story of kindness at the bottom of this email.

Here are a few of my favourite quotes which inspire me;

"I love people. I do it all for me. I'm selfish. We need to love everybody. If you're a caring person you're a hero. It's good for you to care. Try a test. Be a jerk for 2 months. Be nice for 2 months. Notice the difference."
- Dr Patch Adams

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
-Dalai Lama

"If you cannot be nice, be as nice as you can!"

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
-Scott Adams

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
-Philo

"Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity (wisdom).
Kindness in giving creates love."
-Lao-Tse

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."
-James M. Barrie

"Something incredible occured to me the other day. I realised that this whole thing - Join Me - all started a massive five years ago, when I first advertised for someone - anyone - to Join Me. Since then, thousands and thousands have joined our simple cause - to be nice, at least once a week, to someone else, for absolutely no personal gain whatsoever."
-Danny Wallace, Founder of 'Join me' and www.join-me.co.uk

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
-Dalai Lama

"Giving in its purest form, expects nothing in return"

Have a HAPPY day!

KEEP HAPPY!

Very Happy Phil
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Remember,
"We can increase our happiness through kindness! If we carry out lots of kind acts every Monday we will feel lots of happiness every day!"
– Very Happy Phil

PS I give talks on the topic of happiness worldwide. Contact me if interested in a free talk.

PPS "About twenty-five years ago, I was driving alone in a rough area of Los Angeles late at night. My poor old car was not in great condition. When I braked at the end of a freeway off-ramp, the engine suddenly died. All the lights went out--headlights, dash lights--and then the passenger compartment started to fill with smoke. I jumped out of the car to see two men running toward me, one holding a blanket. I had no idea that this would turn out to be "the good news." One of the men popped the hood of my car. My engine was on fire, the flames burning along the throttle line. The other stranger then proceeded to smother the blaze with his blanket. It wasn't until the fire department arrived that I learned the car could have exploded. We could have been killed or terribly injured. These two men had saved my car, saved me--my livelihood, possibly my life--all the time putting their own lives at risk for a stranger. In the confusion of dealing with the fire department, I looked up to thank them, but they were gone. They had packed up their car and driven away without my noticing. In the wake of that incident, I had to try to figure out what to do with a favor of that magnitude, if it can't be repaid. Over the following months, I started keeping an eye out for someone who needed help. If I couldn't pay the favor back to the men who helped me, I figured I would have to "Pay It Forward" to somebody else. That's how I learned that this brand of caring can be contagious."
-Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of 'Pay it Forward' and www.payitforwardfoundation.org

The teacher in the book "Pay It Forward," gives a voluntary, extra-credit assignment: THINK OF AN IDEA FOR WORLD CHANGE, AND PUT IT INTO ACTION. A pupil in the class, Trevor, has an idea which he puts into action. His inspiring Pay It Forward concept is to do an unselfish act of kindness for three people and ask those three people to pay the kindness forward to three people and so forth.

"I guess its hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. and when they do, everybody kind of loses."
- Trevor, Pay it forward

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thanks a lot"
-B

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