* Drink FRESH water and as much water as you can. Water flushes unwanted toxins from your body and keeps your brain sharp.
* A daily hit of athletic-induced endorphins gives you the power to make better decisions, helps you be at peace with yourself, and offsets stress.
* Do one thing a day that scares you.



* Listen, listen, listen, and then ask strategic questions.
* Write down your short and long-term GOALS four times a year. Two personal, two business and two health goals for the next 1, 5 and 10 years. Goal setting triggers your subconscious computer.



* Life is full of setbacks. Success is determined by how you handle setbacks.
* Your outlook on life is a direct reflection of how much you like yourself.
* That which matters the most should never give way to that which matters the least.
* Stress is related to 99% of all illness.



* Jealousy works the opposite way you want it to.
* The world is changing at such a rapid rate that waiting to implement changes will leave you 2 steps behind. DO IT NOW, DO IT NOW, DO IT NOW!\



* Friends are more important than money.
* Breathe deeply and appreciate the moment. Living in the moment could be the meaning of life.
* Take various vitamins. You never know what small mineral can eliminate the bottleneck to everlasting health.



* Don't trust that an old age pension will be sufficient.
* Visualize your eventual demise. It can have an amazing effect on how you live for the moment.



* The conscious brain can only hold one thought at a time. Choose a positive thought.
* Live near the ocean and inhale the pure salt air that flows over the water, Vancouver will do nicely.



* Observe a plant before and after watering and relate these benefits to your body and brain.
* Practice yoga so you can remain active in physical sports as you age.
* Dance, sing, floss and travel.
* Children are the orgasm of life. Just like you did not know what an orgasm was before you had one, nature does not let you know how great children are until you have them.



* Successful people replace the words "wish", "should" and "try" with "I will".
* Creativity is maximized when you're living in the moment.
* Nature wants us to be mediocre because we have a greater chance to survive and reproduce. Mediocre is as close to the bottom as it is to the top, and will give you a lousy life.



* lululemon athletica creates components for people to live longer, healthier and more fun lives. If we can produce products to keep people active and stress-free, we believe the world will become a much better place.
* Do not use cleaning chemicals on your kitchen counters. Someone will inevitably make a sandwich on your counter.



* SWEAT once a day to regenerate your skin.
* Communication is COMPLICATED. We are all raised in a different family with slightly different definitions of every word. An agreement is an agreement only if each party knows the conditions for satisfaction and a time is set for satisfaction to occur.



* What we do to the earth we do to ourselves.
* The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.


LOVE LIFE!
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The Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure
The top 20 things Oprah knows for sure
Photo: George Burns

Since the day the late Gene Siskel asked me, "What do you know for sure?" and I got all flustered and started stuttering and couldn't come up with an answer, I've never stopped asking myself that question. And every month I must find yet another answer. Some months I feel I hardly know a thing, and I'm always pressed to make the deadline for this column. This time around, in honor of our tribute to the subject, I looked back and came up with my all-time top 20:

1. What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. (This is my creed.)

2. You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

3. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

4. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. (A lesson from Maya Angelou.)

5. Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

6. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

7. If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, that will be enough. (From the German theologian and humanist Meister Eckhart.)

8. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

9. Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

10. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

11. Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.

12. Love yourself and then learn to extend that love to others in every encounter.

13. Let passion drive your profession.

14. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

15. Love doesn't hurt. It feels really good.

16. Every day brings a chance to start over.

17. Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

18. Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

19. When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

20. "Trouble don't last always." (A line from a Negro spiritual, which calls to mind another favorite: This, too, shall pass.)