The Pearls of Life:

101 Simple Ways to Health and Happiness

Outline  (sample chapters available in red)

HEALTH

Use Resources Wisely

1.    Use this Site, read the book

2.     Touch and be touched

3.     Find a good place to live

4.     Keep the air fresh

5.     Stay safe

6.     Find a good primary care doctor

7.     Get regular checkups

8.     Know your genes

9.     Smile with beautiful teeth

10.  Take all medications with caution

11.  Use alternative medicine with open but critical mind

12.  Take supplements with great caution

13.  Make the placebo effect work for you

14.  Do not smoke

15.  Maintain healthy weight 

Move Gracefully

16.  Exercise

17.  Power up with strength training

18.  Limber up with flexibility exercise

19.  Stretch

20.  Achieve endurance with aerobic exercise

21.  Walk

Eat Well

22.  Eat well

23.  Enjoy your food

24.  Eat less

25.  Eat at least three meals a day

26.  Eat a pyramid

27.  Explore other pyramids

28.  Eat whole foods

29.  Have a rainbow

30.  Go fishing

31.  Choose beige and brown

32.  Enjoy smart sweets and snacks

33.  Snack on nuts

34.  Drink enough water

35.  Moderate alcohol use

36.  Be gentle with salt

37.  Cut down on animal fats; avoid trans fats

38.  Cut down on sugared drinks

39.  Take your vitamins

40.  Read ingredient lists and food labels 

Sleep Tight

41.  Sleep tight

42.  Practice good sleep hygiene

43.  Eat to sleep

44.  Use sleeping pills with caution

45.  Take a power nap

 

HAPPINESS

Have Enough

46.  Be financially responsible 

Think Optimally

47.  Be open-minded and flexible

48.  Embrace changes and challenges

49.  Accept the unchangeable and inevitable

50.  Make lemonade from lemons

51.  Be able to see the bright side

52.  Have a positive attitude toward aging

53.  Be an optimist

54.  Love and enjoy what you have

55.  Moderate your wants

56.  Relish the past, enjoy today, and look forward to tomorrow

57.  Thank life

58.  Live with purpose

59.  Keep your faith

60.  Hope and plan

61.  Be vain

62.  Work for fun 

Open Up the Senses & Create

63.  Surround yourself with beauty

64.  Commune with nature

65.  Find coins in life

66.  Create

67.  Paint; draw

68.  Fill your life with music

69.  Commit senseless acts of beauty and random acts of kindness

70.  Play

71.  Imagine and visualize 

Love

72.  Love yourself

73.  Know yourself

74.  Try to understand others

75.  Love and be loved

76.  Stay connected

77.  Reach out to others

78.  Help others if you can

79.  Pass along knowledge and experience

80.  Learn to forgive

81.  Receive with an open heart 

Learn

82.  Play mind games

83.  Try new things

84.  Get more education

85.  Learn to use the Internet

86.  See with new and open eyes

87.  Travel  

Feel Right

88.  Manage stress

89.  Give yourself psychotherapy sessions

90.  Tell your story

91.  Meditate

92.  Practice mindfulness

93.  Breath deeply and mindfully

94.  Loosen tense muscles

95.  Laugh

96.  Fight depression

97.  Avoid excessive anxiety

98.  Catch some sun

99.  Smell the flowers

100. Take a break

101. Feast on your life