THIS IS A KEEPER: 1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes. 2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die within the next 3 years 3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime. 4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger. 5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother. 6. If a part of your body "falls asleep", you can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head. 7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing -food, attractive people and danger 8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side 9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odor. 10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years. 11. There are so many kinds of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all. 12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping. 13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t. 14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking. 15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia 16. Our brain uses the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb!! 17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 liters of water!! 18. The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the sperm is the smallest cell !! 19. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!! 20. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant. 21. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. 22. When you wake up in the morning, pray to ask God's guidance for your purpose, today. 23. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants. 24. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, broccoli, and almonds. 25. Try to make at least three people smile each day. 26. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment. 27. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card. 28. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 29. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive them for everything! 30. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 31. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 32. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present. 33. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 34. No one is in charge of your happiness except you. 35. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?' 36. Help the needy, Be generous! Be a 'Giver' not a 'Taker' 37. What other people think of you is none of your business. 38. Time heals everything. 39. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 40. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch. 41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. 42. Each night before you go to bed, pray to God and be thankful for what you'll accomplish, today ! 43. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed. Like · · Share. .
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Beloved
Posted on: 05/29/2014 18:11
I read it !
Some made me smile, some made me think, some made me want to change some things in my life, some reminded me of others, some were things I knew, some where things I didn't.
Thanks for sharing CH!
chemgal
Posted on: 05/29/2014 18:11
There is so much wrong with this I dunno where to start.
Pilgrims Progress
Posted on: 05/29/2014 18:35
Gotta watch those negative thoughts, Chemgal!
Lots of sound advice for living the good life.
crazyheart
Posted on: 05/29/2014 19:08
I like "don't take your self so seriously, no one else does."
Isn't it the truth?
chemgal
Posted on: 05/29/2014 19:20
There's some good advice in here, but it's mixed in with some bad advice as well as incorrect facts.
I guess it can be used for a lesson in critical thinking or just not believing everything you read on the internet :)
Saul_now_Paul
Posted on: 05/29/2014 19:30
44. Don't believe everything you read.
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 05/29/2014 20:00
where'd you get this from, crazyheart?
crazyheart
Posted on: 05/29/2014 21:41
My son sent it to me on FaceBook. He liked the one - #5.
Jim Kenney
Posted on: 05/30/2014 23:54
Good points by everyone. I kneo #5 for certain was wrong; there are some others i am interested in testing like shake your head to wake up a "sleeping" body part. The one about pillows is based on the assumption a person sleeps on their back or belly. It definitely does not apply to people who sleep on their side, and I am not sure it applies to people who sleep on their backs -- even the Egyptians used wooden pillows. I don't believe people in the past would use pillows if they were not helpful. The sitting for 11 hours/day is clearly exaggerated - just need to look at all the elderly in long-term care facilities that sit for long stretches of time every day for many years.
And it is pretty easy to spot other flawed statements, especially most or all of the ones with numbers or percents. But there is good advice mixed in -- sort of like a bacan and cabbage salad.
seeler
Posted on: 05/31/2014 07:03
Time on my hands this morning --- I took the time to go through this one statement at a time. What a strange mixture of facts, advice, speculation. I started thinking True or False, but immediately realized that I needed a "Don't Know" for some. Towards the end I also added a "It depends". Probably I'd have a few more "It depends" if I'd had this category from the beginning. Anyway, here is my analysis:
1. Don't know
2-5 False
6. Don't know
7-9 True
10-11 Don't know
12-13 True
14-17 Don't know
18-36 True
37-38 False
39 True
40-41 It depends
42-43 True
chansen
Posted on: 05/31/2014 10:17
44. Don't believe everything you read.
Oh, irony. How I love thee.