Before starting this new year get rid of old baggage from the past. Free yourself!  Start fresh and be happier by starting with these 22 keepers.

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Here’s how to make 2019 a best year. It may take guts for some but it’s worth it in the end.

Feel a weight and burden lifted that you’ve probably been carrying around for months or years. It’s time to make things right… today.

Your Challenge:  Use this list and start today! You’ll be the bigger, better, happier person for accomplishing it. Do it anyway. No excuses allowed.

Forgive no matter who’s at fault, forget, be kinder, gentiler, thoughful, loving, reach out to others first, better friend, exude positiveness and encouragement, appreciate others and nature in 2019.

1. Mend a quarrel
2. Seek out a forgotton friend
3. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust
4. Write a letter to someone
5. Give a soft answer
6. Encourage youth
7. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed
8. Keep a promise
9. Forgo a grudge 
10. Forgive an enemy
11. Apologize
12. Try to understand
13. Examine your demands on others
14. Think first of someone else
15. Be Kind
16. Be gentle
17. Laugh a little more
18. Express your gratitude
19. Welcome a stranger
20. Gladden the heart of a child
21. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth
22. Speak your love and then speak it again

President Howard W. Hunter

Live by these prinicples the rest of 2019 and your happiness and contentment will continue throughout the year.  Print it out and carry it around as a reminder.