Everyday a Friday by Joel Osteen

This week I didn't have time to run to Barne's and Noble to get a new free reading book, but I needed to read for 150 minutes.  I looked in my bookshelf of my books, but I had already read all of them.  I decided to go borrow one of my mom's books.  I found Everyday a Friday, and decided to pick it because I like to read books that give advice and thought it would be interesting to see how to make everyday a Friday.  This book is actually really good, and I will probably continue to read it because it has given me advice that I would really like to try to apply to my life.  I thought I should share some things I have learned so far to whoever is reading this for everyone to see what this book is about and get to learn some daily things you can do to be happier.

One story that the author told was about a 92 year old man that was blind.  His wife had just passed away, and he didn't want to live alone, so he decided to move into a senior home.  On the morning of the move, he had a Taxi pick him up and take him to the senior home.  Once he got there, a lady came to show him his new room.  As they were walking to the room, the lady started to describe the room in lots of detail.  In the middle of the description, the old man interupted her and said, "I love it. I love it. I love it."  The lady said, "Sir were not there yet.  You havent seen it.  Hold on a minute, and I'll show it to you."  The man said, "No, you don't have to show it to me.  Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged.  It depends on how my mind is arranged.  Happiness is something you decided ahead of time."  This story really helped me to see that you decide if your happy or not, and you can't just wait around for someone to make you happy.  Everymorning you need to wake up and decide that today you are going to be happy and that something good is going to happen to you today.  Don't let yourself only be happy on the weekend; be happy the whole week because if you don't you have just wasted a day.

150 minutes 94 pages