Tips to Happiness

I completed reading "What Happy Working Mother Know" and came away with the following:
* Learn to love yourself as much as you love your friends and family.
* Life happens. What you choose to focus on becomes your experience. Focus on the positive.
* Learn to forgive yourself and others.
* Happiness comes from a full, balanced life that includes hard work, time with loved ones and friends, exercise, celebration, and even solitude. Skimp on any of the ingredients, and your recipe for happiness could fall flat.
* Half the battle in life is choosing something you love to do. The other half is celebrating your successes along the way.
* When you realize that you're not perfect and allow yourself a few mistakes, you'll go a long way toward being happy.
* Set the same standards for yourself that you apply to your loved ones; cut yourself the same slack you give others.
* Knowing when to say "no" and how to do it without feeling guilty increases life satisfaction, and therefore, happiness.
* You may take a different path from the one you envisioned, but the detours are worth it because you learn more from your failures than from your successes.
* Happiness begins whenyou learn to accept the fact that you're loved and valued for who you are, not what you do.