10 Tips For Living

1. Throw out the nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctors worry about them... it's their job.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about computers, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop... and the devil's name is Alzheimer's."

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long, and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love. Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: if it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9.Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

10. You never know when an act of kindness, a kind word, a hug, or a smile can change another's life. Give it freely. It costs you nothing but may change another's life.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away