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Community Honors Woman Who Made Sandwiches for WWI Soldiers | 200 Volunteers Made 10,000 Sandwiches in One Day
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After two hurricanes, help didn’t come — so she became a mom for her whole town
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First Patient Gets Potentially Cancer-Stopping Pill – Study is Recruiting Those with Resistant Tumors For a Trial
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Villagers Celebrate Reopening of Local Pub After 10 Years Raising 500K to Buy it–Halt its Tear-Down
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EU emissions are shrinking again
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NASA Catches The Sun in a Big Smiley Face Made of Wind
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India’s poverty rate is half of what it was 15 years ago – 415 million people got out of poverty, says UN
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Woman who returned $543 she found in her KFC order praised for her honesty. Then strangers raised more than $10.000 for her husband’s medical bills
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Paraglider Spots Alligator from the Sky, Then Discovers Woman Stranded on the Roof of Submerged Car and Makes Emergency Landing to Help Save Her Life
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Young Man Makes Wrong Turn, Then Saves Sleeping Family From Fire
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Dad Makes Epic Halloween Yard With Giant Spider and Horror Movie to Raise Thousands For Local Hospice
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Actor Russell Crowe saves UK bookstore from closing down with surprise donation
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Tiny Home Village for Salt Lake City‘s Homeless Gets Green Light for 430 Units
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Brewery employee noticed a car fire so he grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran to help out
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Meals on Wheels! Ohio Family Delivers Free Food to Kids in Need — from a Refurbished Ice Cream Truck
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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott donates $15m to help provide glasses to farmers in developing countries
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Pregnant firefighter rescues woman trapped in car — then gives birth
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Englishman Creates a Mental Health Walking Group Just for ‘Lads’ Like Him
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Citroen’s New Electric Family Car Could Also Help Power Your Home
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More than 1,000 teddy bears left in Queen Elizabeth tribute will be donated to children’s charity
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Former Debt Collectors Have Wiped Away $6.7 Billion of Medical Debt for Millions of Americans
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Medical breakthrough: Honeybee venom kills breast cancer cells
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Cardi B donates $100,000 to her old middle school in the Bronx
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Police Dog That Saved 38 Lives During 8-year Career is honored for Bravery
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Southwest Airlines Workers Looked After a Passenger’s Pet Fish for 4 Months After it was Banned From Flight
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Patagonia founder just donated the entire company, worth $3 billion, to fight climate change
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Scotland is barring landlords from raising rent amid a cost-of-living crisis sweeping Europe and the UK
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Bengaluru Doctor Ditches Car Stuck in Traffic to Run 45 Minutes and Perform Critical Surgery
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Woman Hailed as Hero For Using Drone to Locate Over 200 Lost Pups For Free
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Passengers Flying to Hawaii Surprised with Free Ukuleles and a Lesson Aboard World’s Happiest Flight
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I have started new (and probably biggest yet) challenge on my Instagram! 🤩 It’s about following dreams! I’m one of those people who always encourage you to dream big and follow those dreams! I’ll be always rooting for you to work hard on reaching your goal 💪.
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BUT!
Setting goals and dreaming big is amazing and I am all for it but you need to learn to be happy during the process of following dreams, to be happy on your path, not only at the finish line ☺️.
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You can’t get stuck on „I’ll be happy when…” syndrome.
➡️ „I’ll be happy when I finally manage to get a new job and quit current one.”
➡️ „I’ll be happy when I finally move to a bigger house.”
➡️ „I’ll be happy when I succeed and when my company gets 1000 clients.”
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Do you see what’s wrong with those sentences? You’re blocking your own happiness! 😔 Thinking that you’ll be happy when you succeed you subconsciously tell yourself to be unhappy now 😬. What if it takes several years for you to achieve your goal? And what if it doesn’t work out and you won’t reach that particular goal (sometimes it just doesn’t happen, sometimes you miss your opportunity, run out of time etc)? Will you never be happy then? 😔
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Appreciate all the steps inbetween! There’s so many more steps to be happy about rather than just the final one 🏁. E.g. if your goal is to get 1000 clients you still get a milestone when you get the 1st one! 🤩 That’s a huge thing to celebrate! Somebody liked and bought your product/service! And when you get to 100 clients – woah, that’s a lot of people, you should be happy! 🤗 If your goal is to lose 15kg you should be happy about every single kilogram lots, you should be happy about yourself taking care of yourself, you should be happy now! 😊
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Remember, when setting your goal and following your dreams, make sure you’re happy all the way through the process!
KFC worker helps save kidnapped woman after finding note she left at fast-food joint begging for help
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TikToker Raises $230,000 for Uber Driver’s Sick Daughter
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Greg drove 3.5 hours from Cleveland to Buffalo with a 417 pound food donation to help those affected by Buffalo shooting. Love is stronger than hate
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Bumble is matching every dollar Baby2baby raises to help provide 30,000 bottles of baby formula to families & babies in need during shortage
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Diving Heroes Find Woman’s 100-Year-old Wedding Ring After it Flew Off her Finger Into a River
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We all have bad days from time to time 🤷♀️. We all go through sad difficult times. We all cry 😥, we all feel insecure sometimes. That’s normal. But what is really important is to find that strenght to get up after we fall. To leave the dark, sad times and come back to life 💪.
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Has feeling sorry for yourself helped anyone? Has feeling insecure, sad helped anyone? 🤔 Has it made anything better, easier? 🙄 The answer is ‘no’. You know what is it really? It’s wasted time 🤷♀️.
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I don’t want to be harsh but that is the truth 🤷♀️. Time is the most precious thing in the world and we can’t waste it on sad, dark moments/days. I know there are situations (after break-up 💔, in grief 🖤 etc) when we need to have this time, when we need to lay in bed, to cry etc. It’s ok to feel sad, to feel angry, it’s ok to feel ashamed, it’s ok to feel guilty. We all need those feelings! But we all need to end with those feelings at some time too.
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So remember, it’s not worth spending time being sad or anxious 😔. Life is short. If you’ve cried your eyes out after some sad/traumatic experience try to get up and forget about it 💪. Or if that’s too hard seek help. Please 🙏.
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Feeling sad and feeling sorry for yourself just to feel sorry or to arouse interest is pointless and doesn’t help anyone 🙄. Believe me. Your clock is ticking⏰️. Please find that strenght and move forward.
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I wish that all of us always find that strenght.
Do you know the saying „The appetite grows with what it feeds on.”? 🤔 The more people have, the more they want and this saddens me 😔. When will those people be happy? 🤷♀️ They’re chasing all the time to have more and more and in the end they never have enough, they are never happy. Isn’t is easier and better to appreciate what we have? 🤷♀️
To be grateful and to be happy all the time and even HAPPIER when you get something new, something better? 🤔
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There are people in Africa or South America who don’t have much, who struggle to survive and yet they are so much happier than people who have so much more. Because they appreciate what they have 🙏, because they are happy about the simple things like having food or a roof over their head. We should learn from them!
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I know we shouldn’t compare ourselves but in this case do it. Compare what you have to those poor people who hardly have anything. Compare the conditions you live in with wifi, shower 🚿, Netflix and/or Playstation 🎮 to the conditions they live in with a bucket of warm water to clean themselves with, with one wooden toy for all 6-7 children and no idea what wifi is (not everybody there lives like that of course but there are plenty people/houses who do).
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Do you still think that you don’t have much? That you live in bad conditions? 😶 Compare your life in which you are able to go to a cinema, to travel, to see your favourite band live with the life of e.g. Cubans who can’t travel (they don’t have passports), who hardly get any access to international movies 🎬 or music 🎵, who use their day off to stand in line for several hours in front of a grocery shop to get any food yet they still go out to the streets and laugh, dance and love life. Do you still think your life is so bad?
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There’s one simple rule to have a happy life – look down on those who have less when building gratitude 🙏 and look up for those who have more to build motivation 💪 and to get inspired. And never do it the other way round 😉.
How to be HAPPY 