Today I am asking you to stop and think about the influence you have on your world. We have all thought about how we have been effected by our environment before - the person driving in front of us too slow, a boss giving us a hard time, or a friend who brightens up the day. But rarely do we think about the influence we have. It's like a ripple, starting with us and radiating out into the world.
A friend told me a story once about someone whose life was not going well. He felt like he didn't have a friend in the world and had nothing left to live for because no one was ever nice to him. So on this particular day he had decided enough was enough and he was going to end his life. On the way to the cliff top that he was going to jump off, a complete stranger, smiled at the man and wished him a lovely day. That act stopped him from jumping and his life went on to turn around, he met the love of his life and had a family. He had said he wished he could tell that stranger the impact that their smile and kind words had on him that day.
You never know how much your influence may mean to someone.
So smile...it’s contagious!
Right on Liana. Many seem to want to go to the gym to get fit, not that to many people follow through with it for too long and the muscles sag away. It seems to me that if one exercise was done regularly, so that the strongest muscles in our whole body were in our face and we lived with a smile for everyone to see this would be the most fantastic way to be. To radiate and to emit the desire for people to be happy fulfilled and prosperous indeed does begin with a smile. :)
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