Finding Your Smile

77/365, you're never fully dressed without a smile!Creative Commons License Benedetta Anghileri via Compfight

You may have seen the film City Slickers, where Billy Crystal goes to a cattle ranch in search of his smile. He meets Curly the crusty old cattleman who tells him that the secret of living is to find the ‘one thing’.

Curly dies before he can say what the ‘one thing’ is but Billy eventually works it out for himself and in doing so, finds his smile.

When times are changing fast and you appear to have no control, it is good to reflect on your one thing and, with it, find your smile.

This might help:

  • What is one thing you must SEE in the next twelve months?

(Niagara falls? Your long-lost cousin? A bigger bank balance?)

  • What is one thing you must HEAR in the next twelve months?
  • What is one thing you must FEEL in the next twelve months?

(balancing on a skateboard? A nice hug? Etc. You get the idea…)

  • What one thing must happen at work for so to satisfy you about where you are going?
  • What one thing must happen in your closest relationship to satisfy you about where you are both going?

And finally

  • When you know what your one thing is then what is one thing you can do to make it happen?

Yep,  this is just another way of focusing on what you want. Keep this in mind and you’ll find the next few months easier to deal with.

About Andrew Halfacre

I can help you figure out what you really want and recover the motivation to go after it.
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