This was an odd week, but over all pretty good. not a lot of standout situations. My original idea today was just to list a lot of small things that I smiled about and make the post “the little things in life”, but then I started filling in details and figured you didn’t need 5,000 words ;) So here is one of those little things.
The only door into my new house that works is inside of a little enclosed area between house and barn. It is small and dark. So I spent maybe $20 on a battery powered, motion sensing, light detecting security light and spent 10minutes putting it up over the door. Perfect! I have no idea why nobody had done something like that before. It was such a small thing, but made such a huge difference.
Have you noticed things like that? I put up a really good utility shelf and pegboard in my shed and it became a totally different building. I have put lights in places that didn’t have lights (like in the new house) and it improves so much. It is like you get so, so much out of these tiny micro-projects.
That is my smile this week, a micro-project that had a mega-impact.
What made you smile?
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Come on, I’m sure you smiled at least once last week. Why don’t you share it? I hope you can join in!
Here is list of “rules” and guiding ideas. If you don’t have time to read it right now, just remember that this is an exercise to spread positivity. Don’t smile about the misfortune of others. Don’t smile in a way to excludes others. Make sure a 12 year old can read it.
And remember, the Smile can be anything, large or small. Nothing, nothing at all is too small for a Smile! Sometimes taking time to notice those small, every day smiles is more important than those once in a lifetime huge ones :)
To join in, write a post to share your smile and then leave a comment on this post with a link to your smile. Or, if you prefer, do a pingback to this post (pingback = have a link from your post to this one). You can post any time until next Sunday evening (to be simple, I will say midnight GMT, which is 7 PM Sunday for me). Next week I will compile all of the Smiles and do a separate post of them on Monday morning just before the smile. (I will shoot for around 7 AM EST).
Try to use the hashtag #WeeklySmile when you use Twitter or other social media that uses hashtags. I searched Twitter and found that #weeklysmile had been used only a handful of times back in 2012 and 2013. It hasn’t been used since. So it’s ours! I also registered it on Twubs.
You can use the graphic at the top. It is the official graphic for the event.
Now go out there and find something to smile about! :)
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“There are days I go in search of the kind, compassionate, loving and beautiful. Despite what we sometimes see on the news, FB and elsewhere, there is much more beauty in the world than ugliness, much more kindness than hate or cruelty. Perhaps we should all have a goal to make at least one person smile every day.”
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Hi Trent, I got my smile for the week! :-) here https://utesmile.wordpress.com/2019/02/24/weekly-smile-4/
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Hi Trent
https://pigletinportugal.com/2019/02/21/weekly-smile-blind-date/
hope you did not mind me using the weekly smile log this week. I took a nice photograph but when I downloaded from phone it was blurry
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Thanks. And use of the logo is encouraged :)
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Hi Trent. You should recognize this story. I decided to promote my cave adventure at the ago of six to a posted story for a good smile to share. Here’s the link..
https://garyawilsonstories.wordpress.com/the-dark-cave-adventure/
Thanks for keeping this going.
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Thanks Gary, I will take a look.
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I couldn’t find a place to comment, but you are right, I did see this. Yes, a most embarrassing situation, but one worth a smile or two… (I’m sure she laughed about for years).
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Which light did you get? I love stuff like this. Finding a good one is hard sometimes.
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I’m not sure – I still have the box, but it is on the Cape and I’m in NH. I looked at a bunch of boxes at Lowes and chose the one that looked best for price/function.
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I love Lowes.
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I like the small things because they do have that mega impact (and whew – you are right – 5,000 words would be a lot right now – ha)
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Little things often do have big impact, and life is made up of a lot of little things. Now imagine if I did take those half a dozen little things that I had planned and put in as much discussion as I did about installing the safety light – maybe not 500 words, but too long ;)
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Yeah – good call to not expound on the half dozen things – although there likely would be a handful (or more) readers that would soak up every word!
I have learned that in blog land there are some followers who read a post if it is 500 words or 2,500 – they are there to glean and just follow who they want to read – ya know? But I also learned that most blog readers prefer less or prefer succinct posts (and – moi included) and so that is why I said good call –
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I am a bit of a hypocrite ;) I prefer shorter posts (most of the time) but very often post long posts. I am surprised by how many people will read a 3,000 word story or even a 30,000 word story spread over 15 posts.
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Ahhh – I think you touched upon a good point tho – because how we post and how we interact and prefer others post might be different – ya know?
And I recently had a clarity with how I “need” to post because it is part of my essence – and it has to do with combing challenges – sometimes I just want to combine away and it a challenge host does not want that – well that challenge is not for me – and I fully “get” that blog challenges sometimes need posts if their own and combining might pull from the aim of the other participants and so good for them – they can do that and I will find ways to do what works for me as a blogger – ya know?
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Yeah, I get it. I typically just do a single challenge at a time, but, for example my Weekly Smile, I don’t care when people combine as long as there is still some thread there.
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Right on – I will be joining in this coming Saturday – ;)
When I do my stream of conscious pose (take 3)
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Looking forward to it :)
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It is the little things that can make such a difference in life.
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The little things are import. Life is made up of a lot more little things than big ones :)
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Oh I love that Trent! A “micro project that had a mega impact”. Good for you.
I made a big decision this week, one that brought me great peace. Definitely a weekly smile.
Blessings and have a great start to your week!
Debbie
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Sometimes those little things are “bigger” than the big ones… Is your big decision in your post? If so I will see it in just a minute :) Hope your week is going well/
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Yes! And funny, in retrospect once I made the decision, it didn’t feel so “big”. Simply natural.
Blessings. :) Have a good rest of your week…with a lot of smiles,
Debbie
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Sometimes it is the first step that is the hardest… I hope you have a good week as well :)
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It is great when you find an obvious solution to something and it works, Trent.
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It is great. Often there are a million of those little fixes that we could easily do and just never take the time. I’m sure this bugged the previous owners, but, well, i was the one that did it :)
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