20 Ways To Make Someone Smile

Do you want to put a smile on someone's face today? Maybe make their day a little better. It won't cost you a single penny or much time to do just that. And because smiling is contagious, it probably won't just be one person you make smile today.

Here are 20 ways to turn that frown upside down.

1. Send some flowers to your partner at work.
2. Compliment a friend or work colleague on their appearance.
3. Donate something to charity.
4. Take a friend out to lunch.
5. Let someone know you miss them.
6. Make a surprise telephone call to your partner at work, just to say hi.
7. Hold a door open for someone walking behind you.
8. Hug your partner for no reason.
9. Leave a joke on a friends answer machine.
10. Send a card to a friend letting them know what a good friend they are.
11. Give up your seat on the train to someone when there aren't any left.
12. Share your umbrella on a rainy day.
13. Ask a friend if they need anything while you're out shopping.
14. When it's raining, plan an indoor picnic with your children.
15. Leave a love letter somewhere where your partner will find it.
16. Send someone an unusual and unexpected gift like chocolate, flowers or sex toys.
17. Tell your child you're proud of them.
18. Tell someone you thought about them the other day.
19. Cook a surprise meal for your partner one night, especially if they normally do the cooking.
20. Tell your partner you love them.

Did you know it takes only 17 muscles to smile, but 43 to frown. Why waste all that energy frowning when you could just smile.

Here are 5 more facts about smiling.

1. Women smile more than men.
2. Smiling releases endorphins that make us feel better.
3. We are all born with the ability to smile, it's not something we learn from others.
4. A smile is a universal expression of happiness.
5. A smiling person is thought to be a more pleasant, attractive, sociable, sincere and competent than a non-smiling person.

Just remember, smiling is the easiest and cheapest way of improving your looks.

Cheers, Ricky.

Colours Tell Personalities (Result)

What'd your ideal room say about you? Find yourself though colours. Wall's colour would narrate your main personalities. Combine with other minor colours. That would be you!

Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.

Energy - Passion - Vitality - Determination - Courage - Confidence - Action - Speed - Sex Drive

Pros:

• increased enthusiasm and interest
• more energy
• action and confidence to go after your dreams
• protection from fears and anxieties

Cons:

• lose your temper quickly, become agitated, angry, overbearing, demanding, un-nerving, oppressive or even violent.

Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.

Happiness - Courageous - Creative - Successful

Pros:

• spice things up when you feel time is dragging
• become more involved in something
• increase creativity
• relief from things becoming too serious

Cons:

• self-centered and self serving, disregarding the needs of others, pride, and arrogance can will push you out of balance.

Brown says stability, reliability, confident, solid, genuine, maturity, wistfulness, orderly and approachability. It is the color of our earth and is associated with all things natural or organic.

Earth - Order - Dependability - Stability - Humility - Grounded

Pros:

• a solid wholesome feeling
• blend with the background
• a connection with natural earth and the stability this brings
• orderliness and convention

Cons:

• One-way thinking, Naive.

Gold evokes the feeling of prestige. The meaning of gold is illumination, attaction, loyalty, power, self-esteem, wisdom, and wealth. Gold often symbolizes high quality.
 
Illumination - Wisdom - Prosperity

Pros:

• increased personal power
• relaxation and enjoyment of life
• good health
• success

Cons:

• self-centered, seeking personal power.

Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, optimism, cheerfulness and energy.

Wisdom - Intellect - Enthusiasm - Joy - Optimism

Pros:

• clarity for decision-making
• relief from 'burnout', panic, nervousness, exhaustion
• sharper memory and concentration skills
• protection from lethargy and depression during dull weather

Cons:

• inability to focus, or complete one task at a time, and even become critical and demanding.

Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, honesty, self-respect, desire to expand and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety.

Growth - Abundance - Prosperity - Hope - Fertile

Pros:

• a new state of balance
• feel a need for change or growth
• freedom to pursue new ideas
• protection from fears and anxieties connected with the demands of others

Cons:

• placid, lethargic, lazy, and slow, to the point of becoming moody and depressed.

Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, clarity of thought, protection, faith, truth, and heaven.

Tranquility - Trust - Truth - Intuition

Pros:

• calm and relaxation to counteract chaos or agitation
• open the flow of communication
• broaden your perspective in learning new information
• solitude and peace

Cons:

• melancholy, dogmatic, negative, arrogant, self-righteous, and self centered.

Purple combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, sophistication, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.

Spirituality - Strength - Passion - Meditation - Magic - Mystery

Pros:

• use your imagination to its fullest
• re-balance your life
• remove obstacles
• calm overactivity or to energize from depression

Cons:

•  irritability, impatience, and arrogance.

Pink is youthful, fun, and exciting, while vibrant pink has the same high energy as red; pink is sensual, gentleness and passionate without being too aggressive. Pink signifies romance, love, and friendship. It denotes feminine qualities and passiveness.

Friendly - Loving - Compassionate

Pros:

• calm feelings
• neutralize disorder
• relaxation
• acceptance, contentment

White is associated with light, goodness, peacefulness, innocence, purity, simplicity, sincerity, kindness and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection. White means safety, purity, and cleanliness. As opposed to black, white usually has a positive connotation. White can represent a successful beginning. In heraldry, white depicts faith and purity.

Faith - Purity - Innocence - Truth - Peace - Humility

Pros:

• clear clutter and obstacles away
• start a fresh beginning
• bring about mental clarity
• purification of thoughts or actions

Cons:

•  Cold, Drained, Lifeless, Bare, Vacan't

Black is associated with power, elegance, independence, formality, depression, death, evil, and mystery. Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes).

Protection - Independence - Mystic Allure

Pros:

• become inconspicuous
• open the door to mystery
• prepare for the unknown
• a restful emptiness

Cons:

• generates negative mind, lack of motivation, boreness.

Gray is the color of intellect, knowledge, and wisdom. It is perceived as long-lasting, classic, and often as sleek or refined. It is a color that is uninteresting, serious, dignified, conservative, and carries authority.

Dignity - Self control - Wisdom - Responsibility - Organization - Insight

Pros:

• emphasize your willingness to comply
• neutral, non-invasive feeling
• reduce the intense energy of another color
• feel detached or isolated

Cons:

• Rigid, Dull, Melancholy, Lonely, and Lifeless.

Peace out.

Colours Tell Personalities (Test)

Here is the deal. If you had a well designed bedroom with complete furniture, but what was left - colour. What colour would the wall be? Bedsheet, curtains, shelves, door, standing lamps, tables, carpet - if you would like to have one, etc. Here is mine. Black coloured wall with colourful furniture. And what can you tell about me?

So, give yourself a minute, fill up your ideal room with your favourite colours - 3 to 5 colours are preferabled. Ill reveal your personalities tomorrow. Have fun doing it.

Ciao.

Dont Confuse Happiness with Fun

Happy people have lots of fun, but happiness and fun are not the same. Happiness is a lasting and stable state of being while fun is transitory. Fun pastimes bring pleasure for a while but the effect wears off once the activity ends.

To be happy, we dont need everything to be fun. Its necessary to undertake unpleasant tasks and put up with tedium from time to time. Some people have laboured in factories, lifted soaking bags of manure from a leaky barn onto a lorry, done mind-numbing office work and sold cleaning products door to door. All these jobs were unpleasant but tolerable because they know they are just stepping stones to a brighter future.

Many people are drawn into fun activities that distract them from our problems (like drinking excessively, drugs or unsafe sex, for example), only to find that they have made matters worse. Instead, focus your mind on what brings happiness and lay down the right causes. This is the way to find true happiness that endures.

Peace out.

Try It Out

Geniuses stand out not just because they have brilliant ideas, but because they do something with them. Have you ever had a good idea and done nothing about it, only to discover subsequently that someone else thought of it too and made it a success? They trusted their inner guidance and acted on it - you didnt!

Genius, as Albert Einstein said, is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Brahms concurred. 'I wish to impress on you that my compositions are not the fruits of inspiration alone,' he said, 'but also severe, painstaking toil.' Many outstanding ideas come to nothing because they are not acted upon.

Cheers, Ricky.

The Secret

Today is the beginning of my new life,
I am starting over today,
All good things are coming to me today,
I am grateful to be alive,
I see beauty all around me,
I live with passion and purpose,
I take time to laugh and play every day,
I am awake, energized and alive,
I focus on all the good things in life,
And give thanks for them,
I am at peace and one with everything,
I feel the love, the joy, the abundance,
I am free to be myself,
I am magnificence in human form,
I am the perfection of life,
I am grateful to be...
Me.
Today is the best day of my life.

Peace out, Ricky.