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The video is finally posted!! http://vimeo.com/26190208
I’m hoping you’ll agree with what someone said to me that day: “It’s refreshing to see a speaker who is endearingly nervous.” I won’t bore you with details but the first 20 seconds or so there was a tech glitch and it got me frazzled. Once the slides/clicker started working the nervousness melted a way, well mostly.
July 1 @ 5:53 am Fishing sunrise Smiley off east Oahu!
The sun shinning through our loquat tree created a smile this morning!
I opened my grill lid and found this little grilled yellow pepper grinning at me!
Let yourself be seen, with all of your imperfections. It’s certainly easier as you grow older, but hopefully you won’t wait that long! You’ll find it is not only wonderful for you but is also a gift for everyone in your life.
Just as when you are kinder, you find that so are the people with whom you interact. It is also true, that when you stop apologizing for little mistakes and allow others to see your vulnerabilities, they too can feel themselves letting down their guard and becoming more vulnerable. Such an honor for both people.
We’ve all been places where everything is in its place and the order is meticulously maintained. There’s a dis-ease in such environments. You become self conscious of your every action because of your concern for not upsetting the clearly and strictly ordered apple cart. There is an implied judgement if you don’t think to use a coaster or take off your shoes or know which towel to dry your hands on, because clearly they do and clearly there is a right and a wrong way and clearly you should know it.
It’s the same with our emotional state. In the presence of someone who is critical and judgemental, our own sensitivity meter is on alert. We may not buy into their judgements but often we will monitor our behavior using their yard stick.
Conversely, when you are in the presence of someone who is able to show their own weaknesses and not apologize for every little mis-step, they send the message that those who are with them have permission to be themselves, burps, brilliance and all. And those people who show us their vulnerable side, don’t we all just love them? Try being vulnerable; people will see that you’re loveable.
Smile. Be happy.
Ruth
Be an Open Door.
Door Handle Smiley
I need a bunch of people to submit a picture of themselves IMITATING Hub Cap Smiley. I’ll be using these in an important proposal. Could you take a minute to make a silly face and email it to me? Thanks in advance!!
ruth@SpontaneousSmiley.com
This was totally spontaneous. I just tilted the phone and shot.
I don’t know what that one dude was doing…Lol!
I’m a Vietnamese immigrant student in the United States, and I’m studying to try to become a dental hygienist.Then I can volunteer to work for Operation Smile Organization which I have known from reading about your organization’s works in new papers when i was in high school. I’m so thankful to your organization that you had come and brought smiles for poor children in Vietnam, so I wish I can give my hands to help the organization someday.