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Smile More
Smiling is a good idea. Here’s why:
1. Smiling Makes you feel better
Attitudes affect our body language, but our body language also affects our attitudes.
2. Smiling is contagious
Seeing just one person smiling activates the area of your brain that controls your facial movement, often leading to a grin. Leaders fill their teammates’ emotional fuel tank, in large part by having an attitude worth spreading.
3. Smiling lowers stress and anxiety
It’s not easy to keep smiling in stressful situations, but doing exactly that has many health benefits including the release of endorphins and promoting white blood cell production (which boosts the immune system). When recovering from a stressful situation, study participants who were smiling had lower heart rates than those with a neutral facial expression. Try smiling in the middle of a stressful inning and see if it doesn’t help you embrace and enjoy the challenge more.
4. You’ll be more attractive
You know that’s true. You’ll be easier to talk to and seem more trustworthy, too.
5. Smiling will make you more comfortable
A common goal for elite athletes is to “be comfortable being uncomfortable.” I like to modify that popular phrase to, “Learn to be comfortable in situations that would make most people uncomfortable.” The next time you are expanding your familiar zone, see if smiling during the tough parts makes them less tough.
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Tribute to Harvey Dorfman (1935-2011)
A Tribute to Harvey Dorfman
My Friend and Mentor
by Aaron Weintraub
Harvey passed on February 28, 2011
Will you leave a legacy?
I do not like death. I do not like funerals. I do not like sadness and regrets. I am scared of death.
I will admit that death seems to be inevitable.
When I die, I hope to leave a legacy like the one left by Harvey Dorfman.
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Write comment (1 Comment)Culture Key: Forgiveness
Culture: the way we do things here. Is enthusiasm a priority of your team culture? If so, you might add forgiveness as another priority. Without it, enthusiasm flies out the window as soon as things go south.
Forgiving people are happy people.
Athletes perform better when they are having fun.
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Write comment (2 Comments)20 Tips to Smile More
Life is so much better when you're good at it. Here is a video that amazes and inspires me. Evidently, there are no limits...
Here are 20 ideas for being the best version of yourself.
1. Smile. You're beautiful.
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Write comment (2 Comments)Gratitude Keys
An Attitude of Gratitude
If winning the lottery is beating the odds at 10,000,000:1 or more with no skill involved and becoming rich as a result, I'm pretty sure that most of us won the lottery when we were born. If we had been born at any time and place in history until now, what are the chances that we would have this level of health, wealth, and freedom?
It might be worth seven minutes of your life to watch this video and learn the superpower...of a smile!
Here are some suggestions from author and speaker Jim Rohn to help you maintain an attitude of gratitude:
1. Time. Regularly set aside time to be quiet, to reflect. We live in the fastest paced time ever. From the moment we awake to the moment we collapse into bed, we have the opportunity to go at full speed and never slow down. If we schedule time every day to reflect, we will free up our hearts and minds from the tyranny of the urgent and rushed.
Write comment (0 Comments)Because Who is Perfect
"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day.
You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."
-Jim Valvano, winner in life and basketball
Two defining moments: 1983 National Championship, 1993 ESPY Awards Speech
Jimmy V would've liked this video!
"Strive for perfection, but never expect it!"
-John Wooden, winner in life
(he made people better)
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