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How To Be Happy — What I Learned Today. 7.

How To Be Happy — What I Learned Today

Stop checking email in the morning. Seriously cut that garbage out. Your brain actually functions differently when you first wake up, spending that time doing the busy work of email is a terrible waste of neurons. Email has become a job for most people and if someone asked you to clean out their garbage first thing in the am, would you do it? Things to try when you first wake up: Just lie in bed and think about one thing you want to do better today.Go for a walkMake love. 6. It’s hard and almost everyone does it but this is one of the easiest ways to spiral into unhappiness. Things to try to compare yourself to: You, 3 months ago. 5.

It’s really simple. What is another? Things to be grateful for: Your health. 4. Ok put down your iThing and step away from the TV. Things to do outside: Take a walk. 3. Whether it’s something simple like buying a coffee for a friend or doing charity work, the act of giving opens up your heart. 5 Priests Who Turned Badass When Things Got Critical. The downside of being a man of God in a military setting is that there really is a cap on how much ass-kicking you can do. Sure, a priest can give last rights and counsel the troubled while the battle rages in the background, but it's not the sort of thing they make video games about. But maybe they should, damn it. Especially when history is full of stories like ... #5. Andrew White Goes Face to Face With Warring Factions of Iraq Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com Growing up, Andrew White wanted to be nothing but an Anglican priest. When you think your love story is boring - Lisa-Jo Baker. “My love life will never be satisfactory until someone runs through an airport to stop me from getting on a flight.”

~Teenager post of the week via the Huffington Post . He drove us all home 18 hours over two days. Three kids and hundreds of miles and potty breaks and princess pull-ups, the car covered in the markers I’d bought for window art. Turns out the soft beige ceiling of a mini van makes a perfect canvas. Rainbow swirls color the door panels and there are goldfish crackers crushed so deep into the seats that they will likely be there come next summer and this same road trip all the way to Northern Michigan and the lake that his family have been coming to for decades. This things I believe... - Journal - Boys' Night. Faithful Seahawks, super priest. Bellevue priest ministers to Catholic Seahawks BELLEVUEBy Anna Weaver When the Seattle Seahawks step onto CenturyLink Field, the fervor of the “12th Man” may cause small earthquakes.

Faithful Seahawks, super priest

But for the last 12 years, Father Tom Belleque has been making sure that the team’s Catholic members also have the force of their faith with them on the field. Father Belleque, the pastor of St. Louise de Marillac Parish in Bellevue, celebrates Mass for Catholic Seahawks players and staff the night before every home game. It's Pope Francis's Birthday and The Vatican has a Card for You via reddit.com. Be Friends with Failure. Sources cited!

Be Friends with Failure

I discovered the baby concept on AJATT.com– a blog devoted to language acquisition. Check it out! Would you like to have this comic as a 18 by 24 inch poster? CLICK HERE! Put it on your wall to remind yourself that it’s a healthy and natural thing to make mistakes. Neville Longbottom is the Most Important Person in Harry Potter—And Here’s Why. So here’s the thing: out of all your wizarding students and house elves and headmasters and Death Eaters and muggles and centaurs, there is really only one person who determines the course of the Harry Potter series.

Neville Longbottom is the Most Important Person in Harry Potter—And Here’s Why

It’s Neville Longbottom. Neville Longbottom has quite a following in the Harry Potter fandom, and for good reason—he is humble and noble, brave and kind, he’s a wonderful friend and a fierce supporter. Neville is what most Gryffindors would be like in the real world, a person capable of heroic feats under dire circumstances, but not inclined to them every waking moment. Neville understands that it’s not about being loud and brash every day, it’s about picking your battles and knowing what’s dear and worth fighting for. To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan. Bill Watterson's "cartoonist's advice," in comic form by Zen Pencils, aka Gavin Aung Than.

The Egg. 2012-06-05-philplait.jpg (JPEG Image, 980 × 6931 pixels) Never, ever give up: Arthur's inspirational transformation. Badass of the Week: Anthony Omari. Anthony Omari Late on the night of January 23, 2012, a 24 year-old Kenyan uber-hero named Anthony Omari awoke to find three gigantic dudes with machetes standing over his bed.

Badass of the Week: Anthony Omari

He knew right away that they weren't there to sell Girl Scout cookies or ask him for a jumping mid-air high-five. 24 Grooms Blown Away By Their Beautiful Brides. Imagine - John Lennon (Colored Remix) The speed camera lottery. Wil Wheaton gives a pep talk.