Ife lessons from a very mindful bear...

Feeling lonely

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Share the joy

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Growing older

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What is love

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6 Think positive

“When you wake in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself ?”

“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”

“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully.

“It’s the same thing,” he said.

7 Believe in yourself

You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

8 A problem shared...

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out in the open and has other people looking at it.

9 Be prepared

It’s sort of comforting to know if you have 14 pots of honey left, or 15, as the case may be.

10 Take time to relax

What I like doing best is Nothing. It’s when people call out at you just as you’re going off to do it, “What are you going to do?” and you say, “Oh Nothing’” and then you go and do it. Doing Nothing means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

11 When in doubt, hum

To seem quite at ease, hum tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

12 Time to move on

When your house doesn’t look like a house and looks like a tree that has been blown down, it is time you tried to find another one.

13 You can’t be good at everything

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain you’re never much good at riddles.

14 Don’t worry

When you get a sinking feeling, don’t worry, it’s probably because you’re hungry.

15 Time to spare

While you wonder what to do, sit down and sing a song.

16 Be spontaneous

Do a good thing without thinking about it.

17 Take another view

If people are upset because you’ve forgotten something, console them by letting them know you didn’t forget, you just weren’t remembering.

18 Look on the bright side

Everybody is alright really. That’s what I think.

19 Go see people

“Let’s go and see everybody,” said Pooh. “Because when you’ve been walking in the wind for miles. And you suddenly go into somebody’s house. And he says, ‘Hallo, Pooh, you’re just in time for a little smackerel of something,’ and you are, then it’s what I call a Friendly Day.”

20 Best friends

“Oh, Bear!” said Christopher Robin. “How I do love you!” “So do I,” said Pooh.

■ Disney is celebrating Winnie the Pooh’s 95th anniversary this Thursday. The new range (above) can be found on shopdisney.co.uk. Part extracted from Winnie the Pooh’s Little Book of Wisdom (£5.99, Harpercollins), which is available now