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Making other people smile can have an incredibly positive effect not only on them, but also on you. Smiling helps release endorphins that boost your mood and can even help you become healthier over the long term. There are thousands of reasons to smile and even more to share that joy in making other people smile. Here are a few tips to get you started.

We all want to succeed in our daily lives. At work, with our families, in our relationships, with our children, in our extra activities, it’s universal. We want to be able to feel like we are successful.

One of the most common stumbling blocks is how to get started, and how to make it happen. We look around and wonder what the first step is, or where to go next. Sometimes, we forget to look in the most important place . . . the mirror.

What is a self image? It is basically how you see yourself. If I were to ask you to describe yourself, your self image is likely what you would use to do so. Having a positive self image is a very powerful tool, and one that you will find most successful, happy people have. It will also increase the chances of others seeing you as a positive, upbeat, and capable person.

By Gary Gzik

Abraham Lincoln said that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. The operative word is “mind.” The first thing to know about how to be happy is that it is a state of mind. If we control our minds, we control our happiness.

By Leanne Crain

I met a lovely elderly woman some time ago while volunteering for a day. She was in a nursing home, well into her 90’s, and full of life. She was telling me that she had been living in the home for a couple of years now, and enjoyed showing me pictures of her family, and telling stories of the many visits they had made to see her. Although she said she wasn’t expecting visitors that day, there she was – dressed her best, hair and make-up done, jewelry on, nails painted and wearing a smile.

By Gary Gzik

I recently read an amazing book, and the message it held within its pages was so great, I knew I had to share it. The story was a series of “email updates” written by a family who was losing one of their children to cancer. Where is the happiness in that you might ask? That’s exactly the point – here was a family facing an unimaginable horror, and yet they stumbled upon a secret to happiness, and embraced it, all the way to the end.