9 ways to be happy and make something of your life.
Being grateful is important because you're taking the time to appreciate what you have in life. You can be grateful by writing down in a journal, small notebook, or diary. You can write down all the things your grateful in life like the things you have had to the things you have now. When you write down all the things you are grateful you will realize the things you've had in life and can see that you either had a good life or a bad life or an okay life.
Being smart can be another way of making something of your life by making the right decisions. When you make the right decisions throughout your life good things will come. If you're smart and know what you're doing life might be easier because you know the consequences to the bad things that are out there and if you are smart enough to think before you do something bad. Being smart can be good in many different ways because new opportunities can come up new doors of your life can open to have a better life, career, a place to live etc. If you are smart and conscious of the decisions you through out your life, your life won't be that bad for example if you are planning to have a family in the near future you can think about what you want your future to look like, if you plan on having kids and settling in then you need to be smart of your decisions you make in life so your kids won't have a bad life or you don't want them to have a life like you because you might've had a bad childhood growing up, you might've had struggles or problems growing up as a kid. When you think smart about your future good things could happen to you or good things can come without you even planning it. Being smart can give you a good image of yourself to other people if you say something or help someone in something those people that you helped will be thankful and will give good and nice comments about you, like if someone asks who is he/she they will say " he is a nice guy he is very smart, respectful, responsible etc." or they can say " she is a hardworking lady, she likes to help people, she's really nice, she's polite etc." You can help other people like if your good at a school subject for example English then you can tutor someone that has trouble with English and you can help them comprehend it more.
3. Be Involved in Good Works.
When your involved in good works it can benefit you. Like when you do your work in a class for school you are doing something good because you are doing your work and that will benefit you by getting a good grade in that class, Another good involved work is when you hang out with the right people you choose the right friends to be with because when you hang out with the wrong people they can influence you to do bad things, but when you hang out with good people they can encourage you to do the right thing. For example, you need to study for your final because its a pass or fail final but you decide not to study and go out with your friends that aren't studying as well because they don't care about their grade those friends are making you make bad choices because they are telling you not to study and your going to fail the class. If you hang out with good friends then they will tell you to study for your final because you need to pass that class, maybe they might even tell you to form a study group with them and other friends, some may help you to study as well but they will encourage you to do good in life and make good choices throughout your life. The day of that test if you hung out with bad people and didn't study you're going to guess on every single question because you don't know anything because you didn't study, but if you hung out with the right people that day then you will pass that test because you stayed up all night studying with your group of friends that encourage you to pass the class and made you study for that test. 
4. Be Clean
Some things you can help be clean is your environment like when your walking around your neighborhood and you see a piece of trash on the floor you can pick it up and dispose it in the trash. Another example is you keeping your room clean like having a chart or calendar by reminding you of what chore to do every day so your room can be clean most of the time. You can also volunteer at community centers that help out the community. Being clean can make you a happy person by it keeping you organized with your things for example, like if you live in your own apartment you can have everything organized to remember where you keep your thongs and you won't loose them. Even when you have a car you can keep that clean so you could feel good about yourself when you drive just like your personal hygiene it can say a lot about you like people will think you are a clean and organized person.
When you are true to yourself then that is good because you're not lying to yourself. For example if you are at school and you know that you need to turn in an assignment for a class and you tell yourself i'll do it later and the assignment is worth 50 pts and you procrastinate into doing the assignment and you keep telling yourself " i'm going to do it later" when you're not then you're lying to yourself by telling yourself you're going to do it later. You can also be true to other people like your friends you need to be true to your friends you want to keep that friendship. When you're not true to that friend they get mad and sad because they thought you were a nice person and a trustworthy person but then they see that you turn out being fake to them and they get mad and start saying you weren't/aren't a real friend because of what you did to them. That shows them that you weren't being true to them and they can see that you're not of a good person. Being true to other people around you can be good because you can make good friends and you gain trust because they can see that you're truthful,trustworthy, and responsible. When people see this in you good things can come to you or be said about you. Another example is when you're applying for a job or getting interviewed they can see that you are committed and that everything you are saying is true and that is a good quality for them to hire you or for them to at least think about giving you the job. Most people when they aren't trustworthy they don't get a lot of stuff told because they will go and tell other people that don't need to know.
6.PositiveWhen you're positive it makes you feel like a good person.You're always happy and helping people. When you spread positivity in communities it helps them be a better community some even change. People should really spread positivity to more places because it decreases all the hate there is in this world. When you're a positive person you feel good about yourself you feel more energized you can even feel more healthy in your life becasue you're not stressing yourself out you're not depressed , and you're not in a bad place. If people were to spread more positivity the world would be so much better there wouldn't be so much hate, it would lessen up the chances of like violence, bombings, and negativity around the world.
When you're a humble person you're nice, respectful, caring and etc. Most people aren't humble these days there're rarely any. Now a Days many people don't care if you're respectful, if you're nice and etc. Some people that are humble can be treated good by some people and there are some people that treat humble people poorly. Being humble can be a good quality in your life because there are going to be times where you're going to need to be a humble person, but if you're not a humble person and you don't care and then suddenly you need to be a humble person and you try acting like one but you can't because you never really were a humble person. Some people are taught to be humble at a young age and they grow up that way, there are others that see other people being humble and they decide to be like them because they see the way their being treated and they think and say they want to be treated like them so they change and start acting humble. Being humble isn't a bad thing it is a good thing well at least i see it as a good thing because the way you act describes a lot and can give people either a bad or good idea of the person you are so basically what i'm saying is that it can give people an image of you.
8. Be StillBeing still means like to relax and clear your mind. It is good when you're still because you are being patient and when your patient a lot of good things may come to you. Being patient can play a big role in your life because lets say for example there's a sale going on and you're not patient to get what you want to get then you're not going to get it or you're not even going to try to get it because you're not patient what so ever. Also lets say your a teacher and your its your first day of teaching your class and you see how the students behave and act then you go off on the students because you have no patients so that can cause you to lose your job. Clearing out your mind is good also because your mind is empty and you're not worrying about anythong that is going on in your life your relaxing and not worrying about your problems or the things you have to do. Basically its like your meditating and not worrying about anything or you're clearing out your mind to get rid of some stress you have in your life and it can helpyou with your health .
Final Reflection:
I think that these 9 ways can help you throughout your life in so many ways. They can help throughout your life because you can use them in different situations and different timings. Lets say that you have a job interview so you would have to use one of the nine ways which is to be positive for this you have to be positive because you're getting interviewed and you need to think that you may get the job or that you're going to get the job so in order for that to happen you ned to be positive.
" There they are, nine Be's which, if observed, will bring handsome dividends to any young man or woman. They will add sparkle to your days and peace to your nights. They will save you from heartache and pain. they will bring you purpose into your life and give direction to your energies.
They will bring you friends of your own kind. They will protect you from associations that would pull down and deflect you from your course.
This time to be happy. This time to feel joy and make friends and enjoy the best this life has to offer. What i have tried to put fourth... are simply a few suggestions, gained from many years of living, to help you do just that. The world will tell that certain kinds of things well you happiness- things such as popularity and possessions and satisfying your baser desires.
If today you find yourself only drifting as a leaf in a stream, get hold of yourself and determine you will do better.At railroad grade crossing, signs of warning were once common. Two cross arms were emblazoned with the words, " stop, look, listen." They meant that a train could be roaring down the tracks and you had better be alert.
I was riding a train the the midwest years ago. I looked out the window to my left. A road parallel to the tracks. A car with a boy and a girl was speeding down the road a little faster than the train. The car moved ahead until i can no longer see it. Suddenly, the locomotive whistle sounded the train screeched to a halt as the brakes gripped the wheels. We looked out the window on to the other side. There was a mangled car. Police cars soon converged, followed by the ambulance. The boy and girl were both dead. The road they were traveling crossed the tracks. They did not stop, look, or listen. It all happened in an instant. The better way to be is the way of those nine B's
I was riding a train the the midwest years ago. I looked out the window to my left. A road parallel to the tracks. A car with a boy and a girl was speeding down the road a little faster than the train. The car moved ahead until i can no longer see it. Suddenly, the locomotive whistle sounded the train screeched to a halt as the brakes gripped the wheels. We looked out the window on to the other side. There was a mangled car. Police cars soon converged, followed by the ambulance. The boy and girl were both dead. The road they were traveling crossed the tracks. They did not stop, look, or listen. It all happened in an instant. The better way to be is the way of those nine B's
The years will inevitably pass, and pass quickly. Today is your day of resolution. Promise yourself to make something good of (you) precious life "
- Gordon B Hinckley-
