-have many additions with few subtractions in friends.
-sign all incoming and outgoing checks with "Thank You" after my name.
-rarely use a credit card.
-let go of what I did yesterday.
-use my good sterling silver every day.
-don't organize my life according to news reports.
-cook purchased perishables before they spoil.
-don't watch television.
-don't go to malls.
-earn a year's free movies by baking a big cake once a year.
-know how to make all of my own clothes, and do.
-make good soup from scraps.
-walk to all my neighborhood destinations.
-love a lot of good people.
-can make a fine lunch almost every day from contents of refrigerator.
-gave up smoking 30 years ago.
-buy very little for myself.
-practice listening.
-think through gift items I can make,
-keep a year round birthday book.
-surprise someone every day.
-use a pre-paid calling card for long distance.
-save dimes; they grow into fat packages that buy quarters for the laundry.
-write in a daily journal to sort out difficulties.
-eat half a restaurant meal; the other half goes home.
-use a marker pen to date staples and any expensive items such as skin care products.
-have a thankful heart.
-practice discerning the differences between "very good" and EXCELLENT.
-have an attitude, in Charles Fillmore's words of "Alive, alert, awake, joyous and enthusiastic about life, in spite of losing my only 2 sons to AIDS.
-believe, absolutely what Browning had to say.."The best is yet to be, the last for which the first was made."
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