Show paitcarmecte tecarnegie tE CARNEGIE AUTHDROF HOW TO STOP WORRIING AND START LIVINV smile your way to success the late william james of harvard once said action seems to follow feeling but really act action 0 n and feeling go together and by regulating the action which Is under the more direct control of the will we can indirectly recalk rectlk regulate the feeling chic whic which is not what am I 1 leading up to I 1 can tell you in one word smiling I 1 I 1 do you know that even a forced smile will make you a little bit happier if you whistle or hum a tune that will increase your haqpines haqplnes haQ pines t in other words to say in different words what i professor james said above it will tend to make you happy if you ou will only act as if you were happy kappy try it it has worked for others olther it will work for you william B steinhardt a mem ber of the new york curb exchange told me once that he had been married 18 years shenbe whenbe whenhe 1 realized that he never smiled at his wife and that ha he seldom engaged in conversation wa w4 with ath 1th ier er beyond yond the remarks necessary in n their daily living he said he had by this time discovered that he was one of the worlds worst grouches I 1 one day he decided he would see what smiling would do for him so he greeted his wife with a smile she was not only i suprised surprised supri sed she the was bewildered al most to the point I 1 n t of shock but he smiled when go en he came home that evening ev erting he smiled again the next morning would you believe it he said just that simple act of smiling has brought more h happiness I 1 into our family life w with iT j in a couple of months than we I 1 had experienced in as many years he then tried smiling at his office force some of them were too astonished to respond but he kept it up and soon the office force was smiling back at him then he confided to another broker who shared an office with him just what he was doing smiling his way through life and this man then confided that he had bad always thought mr steinhardt a terrible grouch 1 I have eliminated criticism too to 0 he said and give praise praises whenever I 1 can and I 1 sincerely believe that smiles and ampre appre appreciation have brought me more dollars than I 1 possibly could have acquired with the old dissatisfied mental attitude I 1 do you think smiling would I 1 help you it might try it |