Bring on Happiness!

According to Rhonda Byrne's book, The Power, if you send out love and are happy, more things will come to you that make you happy. I found perfect examples last week. As many of you know, I got married last weekend, so I was definitely happy and sending out love. Wednesday, I took a reading class as part of my teacher continuing eduction. I randomly selected a table and two teachers joined us who brought more happiness into my life.

The teacher sitting across from me introduced herself. When I told her where I taught, she said, "You got our principal. We are going to miss him." In June, our school did hire a new principal, but I had not yet met the new principal. I was glad to hear from this teacher that the man we hired is nice, calm, and easy to talk to. This made me extremely happy.

The teacher who sat next to her recently got married as well. She had already started the name change process and shared what she had learned. For example, in Arizona, you have to change your social security card at least two days before you can change your driver's license. I wouldn't have known that if it weren't for her. I was planning to change my drivier's license first. She saved me at least an hour of wasted wait time at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles.

Needless to say, I was even happier when I left the class that day than when I arrived. I also knew none of this was a coincidence. It was a result of The Law of Attraction. So be happy and bring more happiness your way.

Until next Sunday,
happy writing,
Tina LaVon

Choose to Live

Decide to Live

It's amazing how life often sends messages to you

when you need it. All you have to do is listen and be aware.

This morning I turned the television on and

channel surfed, which

I rarely do.

I came across the show Sunday Morning.

Ben Stein was giving recent graduates advice.

I'm going to paraprhase some of what he said, if

you would like to listen to full speech

go to

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6577699n&tag=api

Ben asked his "shrink"

how he would divide up

people who are happy from those who are not.

His shrink said people who are unhappy often

took the safe route. They chose the career path

their parents or family wanted them to take.

Later in life,

they find it is too late to follow

their heart. They haven't built up the

experience or the contacts in the field they

wanted to to choose,

but didn't.

I'm sure you guessed many of these

people wanted to be writers or performers.

I believe

it is never too late to at least

dabble in these fields part time.

I started writing when I turned forty.

The people who are

happy

are the ones

who made the decsion

to live.

They dcided to follow their

heart.

They took risks.

They took chances.

They may have lived life on the edge,

but now they can say

they lived a life

worth living.

Ben admits, you need to earn your keep.

So please don't go out and quit your day job.

But...

if you want to be a writer, then write.

If you want to be a performer then perform.

Do what your heart

tells you to do to be

happy.

Don't end up being one of those people sitting

in the shrink's office complaining because you

never followed your heart.

You never dared

to dream.

Make your life worth living!

"Decide to Live!"