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As another year passes and International Smile Month closes, it is time to reflect and express thanks for the interest and to all who joined in. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like much just to smile each day, though many found it was great to begin the day with. At first finding the smile in the afternoon was hard for some to remember the focus, though as the month meandered along, it became a challenge and a fun game to play to look for the benefits of what could result in the day.
With this type of focus, it became easier and had more value to continue and for those that were devoted to the everyday experience…a change occured in knowing the value of the smile. For those that were drop ins, not practicing everyday, they remarked that it helped them to remember to smile more and that there was more to smiling that just turning the lips up.
Whether you were all in it, just stopping by or simply amused by the effort, I hope it made you smile more and give notice to how effective your smileage could be. I bet you might even be putting more smiles in your miles as a result! Thank you for joining in and sharing your smiles with us and in the world! This little campaign made a difference and will continue to as long as folks like you enjoy it and pass it along!
Keep the spirit going all year long by taking those smile ideas and practicing it at the beginning, middle or end of each month! Keep it going and keep it growing…. Until next year….Smile Awhile!
Join us August 2012 for the 4th Annual International Smile Month!
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This is the last day of the International Smile Month Celebration. Today pile it on and enjoy what you have created. Dive into a pile of smiles where ever you find them and enjoy the wonderful feeling from doing so. Whether it is a group of smiling people, join em! Or a place that makes everyone smile… visit with vitality! Perhaps it is a thing you do or possess… Use it and enjoy the moments of smiling pleasure it brings. Note what it does for you, note how others are affected. Note what an overall change it makes.
You can also be the orchestrator of the Smile Pile too. Begin at home and heap on the smiles. Do an overview of the whole month in summary and heap the happy into your pile. Pile on ideas and thoughts that have come up. Stack up what you have discovered or even add a growing assortment of the smiles you have collected throughout. Sweep them all together and do the swimming pool backward fall into the pile and role around in it absorbing all the goodness that you created.
Own what you have created and know that at anytime at all, you just have to be curious and committed to a thing that brings about change and it will occur. Be happy about it and choose something joyful like the smile and what a contribution you make to yourself and to those you encounter.
Smile and change your situation, you may note how many other situations you alter along the way! Smile and the world smiles back! From here on out you may discover, as the song goes, that you are never fully dressed without a smile!
For today….pile into the smiles!
Woohoo!
Your fan,
Lynda
International Smiles: Egao – Smile in Japanese
