I just love the "2010 handbook" my friend Sheri just sent me. I posted it on this site under Happiness Made Easy. I love the tip about walking and smiling. Smiling just makes me feel better, and I love when people smile back.

My 2010 resolution is more of a general attention to live happy and healthy and give back. Add to the side of the good. What about you guys?
 
 
As the end of the year approaches, I always get into a reflective mode and wonder what it's all about......life in general, that is. I generally live with a underlying feeling that I'm not contributing enough, not helping enough, not giving back enough, and usually come down to the question of why the heck am I here? Well, this year, I got the best answer to this general question from my dear husband.

While on vacation recently, I spew all these philosophical queries out to him.....and the final question targeted to him was, "Why do you think you're here Hon?". In his most characteristic calm & insightful way, he said, "I'm here to add to the side of the good". It was the most simple answer.

I thought to myself.......Wow, maybe I can have that as my answer to life too! I've been sleeping a lot sounder knowing that I don't have to come up with a miraculous reason as to how I'm contributing or producing. I can simply be happy knowing that I'm adding to the side of the good.
Any further thoughts about this thing called life for this year's end?
 
 
I remember one of my first experiences serving appetizers at a banquet reception in San Diego. One of the managers put a tray in my hand with some odd looking round balls, and said GO! I asked one of the other servers what it was, and I thought they said, "ta- ta". So, I went around the reception telling people to try the "ta-ta". I had no idea what it was. Later I found out it was pronounced, "Tartar", a raw ground meat of some kind with liquor in it. GROSS. If I had any idea of what I was serving, I might have dumped it in the planter boxes. I was so amazed at how many people ate it without knowing what it was. What about you?