Posts Tagged ‘meeting at work’
On this day, I was treated to a day of job in-service. This is where you listen to speakers all day long. Honestly, there are a lot of eyes glazed over on such days. But, this provided me some unique opportunities with this experiment. I was able to get some smiling in at our table, and several employees I never met before seemed to respond positively. I think what was more groundbreaking was that I was included in a group of coworkers going out to lunch – in fact it seemed like they really wanted me along. I say this is groundbreaking because I have, in the past, been conveniently excluded from such outings – and frankly, that was kind of tough to take! But I have, through this experiment, learned that
People like to be around smiling upbeat people and will avoid mopey negative people. If you want to be included, smile. It is almost impossible to be mopey and negative while you smile!
On the way home, I stopped at a store and the checkout lady seemed to be in quite a somber mood. As I departed, I answered her very subdued “Thank you and have a good day” with a big smile and my own “Thank you”. It was as if someone flipped a switch – this lady just lit up with a big smile in return.
This was an uneventful smile day. I smiled at the kids – the reaction was slightly positive. And I smiled at my wife – again this was a positive reaction.
At work I again smiled at coworkers as much as appropriate. This day I noticed that a second fellow I kid around with also smiles a lot, quite naturally. We all had to go to a meeting. Not much to smile about at this, but I tried.
I guess the only interesting thing that happened was that my wife asked if we could go to an Easter show over the weekend at a place about an hour away. When I declined she was not too happy, smiles or no smiles. But after I explained that I had to do taxes over the weekend my wife was a bit happier, especially since she said we could simply go the next weekend.
