On the importance of smiling first thing in the morning.

Soon after you wake up and get going in the morning, smile even if there is no reason.

It’s like a practice, developing a habit.

Perhaps the joy is more, the pain is less, or something you will do during the day may be expected to be funny, pleasant or productive.

Smile.

Doing this even once, will pay dividends of a nonperishable sort.

What on earth is there to lose?

It’s going to be OK on the night. During the week, on the day and at the moment of – the first revealing of….it!

Probably with a few billion people around the world, a few million wherever you are, someone’s going to love it.

You did well.

Even if you did it quickly, it was just a small contribution, the first inception, a sketchy idea.

What everyone needs is movement and show, showing and saying, singing and telling the story you have just thought of.

Tell me…

I don’t know what to say. And that’s all right, I can say nothing and be silent.

Perhaps you are asking me a question and I can’t hear you?

Well I think I would have something to say about that, and often it would just be a way of helping you answer the question for yourself.

It is not just as a “sounding board”, being able to describe your thoughts or tell someone your feelings, it can be that, it can also be a wonderful way of clarifying ideas you have.

If everyone leaves the city, village or mountain top where you live, leaving nobody to tell, then recording your ideas can work wonders – sometimes just speaking and knowing that the digital device has “heard” you, is quite enough to expand the horizon of clarity beyond.

Every star illuminated another, and every asteroid floated sideways.

Knowing the descriptions and ingredients is never the same as understanding the weave and symphony of the whole.

The aroma of a freshly baked loaf of bread makes its own introductions in a way the recipe, sent as an affectionate set of instructions, never could.

Next time say hello. Next time pick up the dropped pen. Next time, offer.

And the next time and the one after that.

What is good is always good.

You know the way your eyes need time to adjust when you walk out of the bright sunlit outdoors into a dark room?

Well sometimes a “problem” is just the difference in the amount of light.

When your eyes adjust to the different amount of Light….there is no problem!

So next time you press Start and there is just silence, or you turn a switch and nothing happens, or you look at the store you have just run the 4 minute mile to get to before it closes and from almost-there it looks closed – give another look, another moment and quite often, that’s it – all good and working!

Sometimes this applies where people are concerned as well.

Sometimes!