SMILES Is Your New Force Of Positivity

After missing for one month from the blog, I am back!

One of the main objective of my blog is to share some of my personal inspirational snippets/thinking/stories etc..to my readers so as to create a more positive energy in the online and offline space. In fact, even without updating my blog, I do still continue to share my inspirational quotes through my social media channels (to connect with me in these channel, just choose Facebook or Twitter).

Recently, Facebook introduced a new feature called "Embed Post" which I thought is a great way for me to integrate what I've shared in my facebook with all of you here.

As per the blog title, SMILES is your new force of positivity. Don't you think so? If you are constantly keeping a long face, do you think you will emit positivity for the people around you?

Following are selected SMILES related posts that I've shared in my Facebook recently and thus would like to reshare it here.

Keep reading and enjoy!

My SMILE Quotes

My facebook friends constantly commented on my photos that I have a cheerful, sincere and down to earth smile. To be frank, I was not like that 2 years ago. That's before I quit my previous job. Then, I tend to be less confident in my facial expression (including smiling). Thus, even though I am generally an optimist, I just kept it to myself most of the time and rarely snap any photo with "proper smile". 

So, why the sudden change? I attributed this change mainly to the quitting of my 16+ years company in 2010 as well as the the passing of my beloved dad in the subsequent year. It just strike me hard that life is really short and we should not take thing too seriously (internally as well as externally). I told myself that the best medicine is to keep a positive mindset as well as an happy face. With the smile, it will go a long way. Since then, I have been trying to keep a "crow's feet" smile (don't know what is this? Google it or check out Guy Kawasaki's book : Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions). Also, I am trying to promote/influence more friends to do the same (be it online or offline) as I am pretty sure that all sincere smiles are priceless and it's the true currency for happiness.

Following are my 3 original quotes which are inspired by the SMILE theme:

Cheers!

Happiness In Hard Times

Recently, I am re-reading the book called "Happiness In Hard Times" by Andrew Matthews (click on the image on the right to see more details of this book). I noticed that the purpose/objective of this book (and many others, of course) is pretty much in-line with the sole objective of my blog i.e. trying to create an additional avenue for everyone to feel more positively towards life, this is especially true when we are in hard times.

I especially like the following quotes from the book:

"Acceptance is POWER"

"If through sadness you can fix the future, then do it! But being sad doesn't fix the future!"

As I mentioned in my earlier post, happiness is a choice and not a reflection, let's choose to be happy in whatever situation we are in now. Also, I felt that happiness is a form of contagious "virus" and we (everyone of us) has the power to "Inspire It Forward" and emit the energy of happiness to the people around us. JUST DO IT!

My original quote on happiness for the sharing:

"Two simple acts that will make you and the people around you happy are Smile to others AND Laugh with others"

Cheers.