A short-term fix for when you're feeling grumpy and you want to cheer up.
Get a pencil or a chopstick and put it in your mouth. Between the teeth and not between the lips so that it forces a smile. Leave it there and keep reading.
This little hack depends on your muscle memory, and helps your brain to remember feeling happy.
Be careful not to put the pencil between your lips, as that will cause a frown, and we don't need to practise those.
Feeling happier yet? No? Well it's probably cheered everyone else up seeing you sitting there with a pencil in your mouth.
You can take it out now...
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- #1 Bite Me
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- #4 Rave On
- #5 Just Do It
- #6 Press Reset
- #7 Fail Better
- #8 Get Physical
- #9 Life Is A Soap Opera
- #10 Begin It
- #11 Unstoppable
- #12 Good Choice
- #13 Happy Diary
- #14 Dream Maker
- #15 Ask Questions
- #16 Assert Yourself
- #17 Blank Page
- #18 Stockpiling Stress
- #19 Hack Your Smile
- #20 Make It Memorable
- #21 Count To Ten
- #22 Angry Email
- #23 Get Rich or Die... happy?
- #24 Take Risks
- #25 Write it down
- #26 Leave It
- #27 Snog, Marry, Avoid?
- #28 Reasons to write things down
- #29 Own Worst Critic
- #30 Fightin' Talk
- #31 Flow
- #32 Make A Brew
- #33 No Complaints
- #34 I'm Exploding!
- #35 The Worst
- #36 Does my bum look big?
- #37 Best Bits
- #38 Send Help
- #39 Make A Change
- #40 Talk To Strangers
- #41 About You
- #42 Listen up
- #43 Set Goals
- #44 Smell the bread
- #45 Surprise!
- #46 The Whale
- #47 They Might Not Be Giants
- #48 Poo Poo
- #49 Get Some
- #50 Move On
- #51 Talk To The Animals
- #52 Jump & Shout
- #53 I Whip My Hair Back & Forth
- #54 Smile
- #55 What If...?
- #56 Boring