Do it with a smile or not at all

This post was written by DoctorJay on January 10, 2009
Posted Under: Success, assertiveness

First thing part of your assertiveness rights is that you always have the right to say no even to yourself. You always have the right to change your mind. You can chose to do anything you can do. You just have to accept the responsibility. You never have to do anything. You may falsely imagine that there things you have to do – that you must do like paying your taxes.

In fact you do not have to pay your taxes. You can select in stead to go to jail. In fact on July 23, in 1846, Henry David Thoreau left his cabin at Walden Pond for a brief walk into town and ended up in the Concord jail for choosing to refuse to pay his poll tax. Thoreau was dead against slavery and said, “I cannot for an instant recognize . . . as my government which is the slave’s government also.” The next morning, he was released when an anonymous person had paid the tax. Although Thoreau objected, the constable insisted on releasing him. This experience led Thoreau to write a powerful lecture on the “relation of the individual to the State.” The lecture was published in 1849 as “Civil Disobedience.” This beautiful tract has influenced generations of peace activists, including Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

So understand that whatever, you do you do because you have decided to do that. So if you do, do with a smile. When you do with a smile, whatever you do becomes better and especially when you do for another. If you do something for someone else and frown the other person will not appreciate what you did. But when you smile and do it not only does it become easier but you are appreciated much more.

One last thing your voice quality changes when you smile so smile whenever you talk on the phone. The other person will pick this up unconsciously and you have more rapport.

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Reader Comments

It actually works. I had to get the laundry for my sister and instead of my usual resenting I smiled and it was easier and I was actually thanked.

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Written By RoshanA on January 10th, 2009 @ 1:55 pm

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