Tammy’s Common Sense Ways to Live a Better Life: #4

4. Get Enough sleep: I love sleep. I think it is pretty safe to say that we all love sleep, but most of us get too little sleep or maybe even too much. Sleep is important for your health and happiness http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20459221,00.html Most of us want to get a good nights rest but cannot or find sleep to be difficult. Here are some tips to help you get a more restful night’s sleep http://www.wikihow.com/Sleep-Better

Tammy’s Common Sense Ways to Live a Better Life: #3

3. Exercise: We all know we should exercise. All of us. There are no excuses, NONE. I am a busy person too, I understand that life is hectic, but everyone has 15 minutes a day to do something. Go for a walk, do sit-ups, push-ups, and jumping jacks while you watch TV, play games outside with your kids, anything that requires a little physical activity. Anything is better than nothing. http://www.prevention.com/fitness/fitness-tips/fitness-25-fast-and-easy-ways-fit-10-minutes-exercise Plus not only do you benefit health wise from exercise, it has multiple benefits to your well being, http://health.usnews.com/health-news/diet-fitness/slideshows/7-mind-blowing-benefits-of-exercise and in the end you will be happier. You may think you don’t have time or can’t, but we all know it’s just BS and we have to get off our butts and just do it.

Tammy’s Common Sense Ways to Live a Better Life: #2

2. Eat Right: Another thing we learned as kids, you remember the food pyramid, well they did not preach it to us for no good reason. If you eat healthy, you will feel better and be happier. I’m not saying you have to suffer, I love sweets more than any other food and will always eat them, just eat sensibly. My three best pieces of advice are: 1) Try to drink as little soda as possible, and cut out all diet soda, artificial sweeteners are worse for you than sugar, 2) try to cut High Fructose Corn Syrup (the food devil) out of your diet, 3) and Try to cut down on red meat, it is really not the best for you and is also bad for the environment. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

Tammy’s Common Sense Ways to Live a Better Life: Be Nice!!

1. Be Nice: Treat others as you would like to be treated. We learn this motto at a young age, but still today I know many adults who never learned, forgot, or choose not to live this way. I know life can be hard and some people can suck, but I do know that generally if you are nice to others, they will be nice back. So come on, give it a try and see what happens. http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-research

10 Steps to Being Happier!

Hi Everyone, I have not written in a while, and will do a better job of posting from now on. I am one of those people that believe that we are the key to our own happiness. I have found, in my own experiences, that there are 10 simple steps to leading a happier life. I will list them here and in the next couple of weeks I will post more information for each one seperately. I hope that they work for you. 1) Be Nice -- Really, we just all need to learn to be nice to one another 2) Eat Right -- We all know that eating healthy makes us feel better 3) Exercise -- Again, everyone knows that a little exercise is beneficial in many ways 4) Get Enough Sleep -- Another no brainer, we all need our sleep 5) Smile and Be Positive -- I know it can be hard, but it does make you happier 6) Be Honest -- To ourselves and others, in the end it benefits everyone 7) Laugh Everyday -- There is the saying that laughter is the best medicine 8) Be Thankful -- Some days may suck, but we all have things to be thankful for 9) Do Something You love -- Doing things you love is bound to make you smile 10) Breath Deep -- There are known health benefits to breathing excercises I will bring you more on each of these in the near future. In the mean time, try a few out for yourself. At least one of them should make you happier:)