Starting with something easy and simple, the gift of a smile. Most of us have experienced having a good day and seeming magnetic to others. The flipside of course is also true and a bad day normally means that you are definitely not smiling and magnetic, and people are not respsonding so well to you. Vicious circle.
So you don't know where to start in giving something small to other people to cheer them up, start with a smile. The funny thing is that most of the time it will be mirrored back to you, and is contagious and having this cool knock-on effect. Depending on where you live and work, culturally and sociably, the experiment of smiling at others can seem easier or more difficult. Even so everyone likes to be liked and feel happy, so a smile goes a long way and doesn't cost any money.
Try it out and see the effect. What will happen is you'll end up feeling better yourself anyhow, which gives you more energy to deal with your life. It is also more difficult to continue to feel stressed if you smile frequently.
An interesting story about sincere smilers - there was a yearbook with photos of young ladies, and their smiles were evaluated as sincere or not. Their lives were then tracked and it turned out that many years later the real smilers had overwhelmingly had happier lives.
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