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The Happiness Secrets You Keep Forgetting
Most of the mystery about feeling good isn't that much of a mystery. Columnist Leigh Newman gives us a quick refresher.
Original Content  |  November 01, 2012
To thine own self be true Photo: Thinkstock
Secret #8: The One Cheesy Sentence

We all have one cheesy sentence that we can say to ourselves that makes walking into the restaurant for the first date or into the office for the interview or into the party possible. It could be "Slow down!" because you talk really fast. It could be "I only need one—not three glasses—of wine" It could be—and in my case, it is, because my mother gave it to me via Shakespeare—"To thine own self be true." Spend the 15.2 seconds it takes to sit in the elevator or bathroom stall and repeat it to yourself, slowly, three times. Then go out there and forget it. Life brings the most joy when you're living it—not yelling at yourself about how to live it.

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