I enjoy being around people that smile. My wife smiles a lot. A friend I work with smiles a lot. And others enjoy being around them as well. They are popular people.
But I have never been a smiler. Even at my own wedding, I hardly smiled! (I was a bit nervous) Perhaps this was because I grew up in a home where smiles were rare – this was a home where family members seemed to focus on the bad around the corner. And that, more or less, is what I have come to emulate in my adult life. Rarely smiling and often focusing on the negative rather than the positive. And at social events I find myself being left alone – and this would often lead to a feeling of being excluded.
So could simply plastering a smile on my face for 30 days running correct all this? That is what this experiment is all about. I document, day by day, what happened in a variety of situations.
Want to give it a try yourself and post your findings here? Just drop me an email and I can make you a guest poster on this blog.
Mike SMILE
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