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National Smile Week is the one week planned to demonstrate just how wonderful a smile can be and how much good it can do for others. This year, it is celebrated from August 3-9, but that doesn’t mean you must look like a grouch on the following day. Smile Week is simply set aside to remind you to wear your happy face the entire year.Smiling is contagious! The sourest individual on earth, exposed to a spontaneous and genuine smile, will be happier and better equipped to meet and to solve his own problems, socially and professionally. For a smile is the basis of all successful human relations.With that in mind...1. Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown, only 14 to smile.2. Speak to people. There is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting.3. Call people by their own names. That is sweet music to anyone’s ears.4. Be friendly and helpfuL If you would have friends, be friendly.5. Be cordial. Speak and act as though everything you do is a genuine pleasure, as it truly should be.6. Be genuinely interested in people. You can learn to like everyone if youtry.7. Be generous with praise. Be cautious with criticism.8. Be considerate of the feelings of others. It will be appreciated.9. Be thoughtful of the opinions of others. There are three sides to a controversy; yours, the other fellow’s, and the right one.10. Be alert to give service. What counts most in life is what we do for others.Now go ahead and smile a little...a lot.
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Durham Intercom
Durham, North Carolina, US
Fri, Aug 01, 1975
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