9 ways to be happy and make                                     something of your life.  

1. Be Grateful 

  Many times we find ourselves walking, driving, just having a normal day and we realize where thinking about something we want or something we don't have. We care so much about it we forget about what really matter and the troubles we can cause people around us. We scream at our parents to buy is this buy us that and we shout in there face "you don't love me ". Why does this happen? well because we've never been at the point where were desperate for food, water, somewhere to sleep. We always have everything we need like food, water, gas, light, shelter, cloth, etc.. we never stop to think and wonder what it be like if we didn't. There is always that one person either a family member or a friend maybe even a complete stranger that is always watching over you and taking care of you without expecting anything in return. So take a moment to really think about your life think about what it be like without your newest i phone or Samsung galaxy which we couldn't possibly survive without for a day. Now thats just a simple found we find great importance to imagine living without food,water, crippled, and sleeping in the streets its a nightmare that you've never lived. So be grateful really just stop what your doing and reflect on your life say thank you when you receive something and keep in mind the effort someone put in things. Don't take advantage of situations or people, just be grateful that your here, alive, healthy, and still standing tall with your head high.


  I cant say im perfect because im not, truth be said no one is and no one ever will be. However it doesn't hurt to try and remember say thank you. How well i apply this to my life? im going to be grateful because i myself have not been grateful and we must learn to appreciate everything we have while we have it because nothing is ever promised. Tomorrow isn't promised.













   2. Be Smart 

In life there are many paths, we're often going to find ourselves in situations were we have to make a difficult choice. Sometimes we may want something really bad because we think its cool but most of the time what we want may not be the best thing for us. That's why we have to be smart,  we have to make the right choices follow the right paths and know whats good for us. Reality is real while where in school most of us think if life as a fun game where we think were the center of the universe but its not till were in either the eleven or twelve grade where we start to take things more serious and where we start being smart. Why because we depend so much on our parents we really don't think about what we do and just do it. That's considered not being smart because we make choices depending on weather we like it or not. What im trying to say is being smart isn't always going  be the funnest thing but its worth it at the end of the day because it gets you to places you never imagined, being smart helps you accomplish goals that u never thought could come true. Being smart means not only getting good grades in school but also not doing drugs not doing illegal things and not hanging around with the wrong people. Being smart helps you in life because when your smart you pick the right path and you go the right way you keep escalating until you reach the top.


How do i plan to apply this to my life? Well for starters i plan to choose the right path, go up instead of down, hang around with the right people. I plan to be smart get good grades make choices depending on what is the best for me.



3. Be involved in good works 

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Have you ever done something for someone and even though you don't think its much you make that person really happy and it just makes you feel good about yourself. Being involved in good things isn't something your forced to do sometimes it just comes naturally were we do great things without realizing and the idea of that generates happiness in us.Tell me, have you ever been outside and took the time to pick up trash or even had the thought about community service? I know i haven't, some people may think oh thats boring i got better things to do or there just to lazy, but i can tell you nothing is better at looking at something and seeing it be so much better just because you decided to be involved. If you ever had the time to just thing about it a lot of historical moments have been marked by people who simply decided to get involved for a good cause. People like the freedom rider decided to be involved in something greater then most people ever had they stood up for there rights no matter what.



4. Be Clean 

At one point in life there has been someone who has told you to be clean. What did you think of this? You probably went to clean your room up or wash the dishes,  you did this because when we hear the word clean we often think of hygiene or picking up after ourselves. Hygiene is something we do on a normal bases we all take shower wash are cloth hands and brush are teeth etc... but not many of us like to pick up after ourselves. We get to lazy and stuck in our own little world we fail to see how leaving our mess behind affect not only other but are planet to. This is a problem that we all have we all have the thought what can one little piece of trash stain etc.. do ? Well many people have the same though and thats how trash begins to pile up into larger numbers and others think well everyone else is doing it why cant I. We have to think about the world around us and consider what little things we can do can cause huge disasters. Just because you believe that you have the right to be however you want, why do  others care about the way you smell or you being dirty. Your beliefs are wrong because when your dirty the ones around you have to suffer the consequence of smelling your foul stent and working with your contaminated self, and if you think you just won't be with anyone else you're wrong because we always will need to come to work with others thats how life works.



5. Be True
  

Be true, this phrase means a lot of things. Be true to your self, be true to others, be true to the world, just simply tell the truth. Often we find our selves telling some kind of lie either were lying directly into someone face or were lying to our selves. Some of us may believe were cool kids who don't care about anything when in reality where responsible educated kids who aren't true to our selves because we try to fit in with others. We lie to our parents or friends to avoid getting in trouble but later find our selves filled with guilt. Why do we lie why cant we be true well its fairly simple. We do wrong because we think its fun and don,t wanna take responsibility for our actions so we lie and we lie and we never try to tell the truth. However when we're true to our selves we never get in trouble when where true to others we never are distrusted and when were true to the world the world is true to us.


6. Be Positive

 Have you ever felt nervous or scared before? Either for a test, waiting on a job application or trying out for a sport? Have you ever denied something good in your life or simply expect a bad outcome in everything?  Well thats because you weren't being positive, most people find them selves to be insecure. Weather there scared of others judgement don't believe in them selves or deny the idea that something good will ever happen to them. Well my message to those people is be positive, you have no clue how better your life can get just by being positive. Why because your going threw life with a great big smile on your face. When your positive you not only feel better about things you do them better because your telling your mind you can do it we got this and your mind does the work. Be positive about life especially when around other in tough time because they don/t need you being negative they need someone to tell them everything going to be alright and make them believe they can do better. Enjoy life as much as you can you only live once and second chances don't come often so go threw life with a smile be positive and if you ever fall pick yourself back up, if your friend ever falls pick him up to and stay positive because being positive will help you stay up.


7. Be Humble

 When where humble were peaceful. We're calm and we're relaxed. To be humble is like to meditate, to be smart, etc... Why should we be humble well because being humbles is good for us it helps us stay positive and relaxed it helps us enjoy life a bit more. In your life try to be humble put yourself before others ignore your self interest. When were humble we win things but we don't brag about them in other peoples faces why? because we're humble. To be humbles is to never brag or show off a reward, because you think of it as just a small reward for doing your job "big deal". So remember folks try to stay humble. 




8. Be Still

 Be Still? what does that mean how can this help me success in life? well when people here be still they usually think well what else could it mean simply don't move, you my friend are wrong. Be still has so many different meaning we don't know about for example be still can be to meditate it can mean to reflect to just slow things down and think about life. To be still is to think more about life to enjoy life to reflect and remember moments from the past. To be still is to take time alone out in nature or any quiet place, without using your phone book or anything else just yourself. When your still you really feel relaxed sometimes you smile when you thing about your day or back when you were a kid.
The 9 ways concluding words by Gordon B Hinckley

"There they are, nine Be’s which, if observed, will bring handsome dividends to any young man or woman. They will add sparkle to your days and peace to your nights. They will save you from heartache and pain. They will bring purpose into your life and give direction to your energies.

They will bring you friends of your own kind. They will protect you from associations that would pull you down and deflect you from your course.

This is a time to be happy. This is a time to feel joy and make friends and enjoy the best this life has to offer. What I have tried to put forth .... are simply a few suggestions, gained from many years of living, to help you do just that. The world will tell that certain kinds of things will bring you happiness – things such as popularity and possessions and satisfying your baser desires.

If today you find yourself only drifting as a leaf in  a stream, get hold of yourself and determine you will do better.

At railroad grade crossing, signs of warning were once common. Two cross arms were emblazoned with the words, "stop,look,listen."They meant that a train could be roaring down the tracks and you had better be alert. 

I was riding a train in the midwest years ago. I looked out the window to my left. A road ran parallel to the tracks.A car with a boy and a girl was speeding down the road a little faster than the train. The car moved until i can no longer see it. Suddenly, The locomotive whistle sounded and the train screeched  to a halt. as the brakes gripped the wheels. We looked out the window on to the other side, There was a mangled car. Police cars soon converged, followed by the ambulance. The boy and girl were both dead. The road they were traveling crossed the tracks. They did not stop, look, or listen. It all happened in a instant 

The better way to Be is the way of these nine Be's.

The years will inevitably pass, and pass quickly. Today is your day resolution. Promise yourself to make something good of Your precious life."