When you realize the true benefits that everyone gains from your smile it is surprising that you will smile more to your prospect, team members and even members from other team. Smiling makes you feel approachable and people can feel it. But do not fake your smile because others can feel it too!
The 7 Great Reason to Start Smiling Today
Smiling can help you to make new friends
In the same way few of us would choice a miserable person for a friend. Lets face it we all want someone who is going to be bubbly and a happy and positive.
A smile is usually returned
When someone smiles back at you it make you feel good inside. You have just made a short but very positive communication and possibly the first step in the process of getting to know or making friends with someone new.
Smiling makes you positive and happy inside
When you smile it is hard to feel unhappy, negative or sad in anyway. Smiling gives you enthusiasm and drive, it is also habit forming.
Smile makes you look far more attractive
You don’t see many celebrities or media personalities that are not smiling because if you did it is fairly certain that their popularity would quickly start to drop!
Smiling also helps make you memorable to others
Have you noticed that smiling people are usually far more memorable than those that are not? It is fact that you are 3 time more likely to remember the person that is smiling over the one that is wearing a negative or neutral features.
Smiling is good for your health
When you are smiling you find whatever you are doing far easier. It releases stress, worry and tension that you may have built up throughout the day. Long term, developing the smiling habit will be one of the smartest things that you can do to improve most aspects of your life.
Smiling is infectious
When you spend a lot in the company of someone who smiles a lot you will soon discover that their smile starts to wear off on you.
So start smiling today and remember smiling is free!
Hi Vince,
Glad that you like it and yup, smile is the ice breaker too 🙂
Wishing you great success in 2011
Hi Jeffrey,
What a great article. I recently saw motivational speaker Andy Andrews who gave the following as the one secret to success; “Smile when you talk.”
Wishing you great success.