Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you, becomes your trademark.

What is your personal trademark?

Like any immediate impression, your smile is the front door to everything.

When you are ready and capable of smiling from the heart, everyone will feel it… even a stranger who is seeing you for the very first moment.

This subtle programming enables us to win the friendship and ultimate appreciation of others by virtue of how we are most capable of managing this one critical resource, which has been biologically programmed at our disposal.

In the course of recognizing the importance of such an asset, it is equally wise to contemplate the dynamic range that this asset is capable of exemplifying by virtue, the highly unique emotional connection between your smile and your feelings.

When you are able to smile warmly at another person, it eliminates any need for words spoken, to the extent that your friendliness and interest in them is spelled out through your instant, emotional greeting.

But how many smiles do we really have?

If we look at the range of what our smiles deliver and under what circumstances, we might discover there is a significantly broad set of smiles, far more than we might first imagine.

If we were to contemplate the dynamics that give rise to a smile, we would find a wide range of emotions, all of which ultimately reveal the upward corners of the mouth and lips forming a smile… but what each of those smiles communicates, is very different.

When you smile at something that you love, whether it’s living, or artistic or food or an experience, your smile of pleasure is very distinct, whereas if somebody is telling a joke that you do not fully appreciate, but it is polite to go along with it, your polite smile is markedly different.

When you are being asked to smile for a photograph, you may try to conjure a specific smile, and that as well will be disparate from the first two, and so on.

Your personality picks up from where the smile left off and gives a greater perspective of with whom the parties are dealing and facilitates a greater opportunity for another person to more readily determine the mindset and thought process of the party with whom they are engaging.

Your personality either delivers on the promise of the smile, or betrays the disingenuous nature of the smile and facilitates a deeper understanding of whom you genuinely are.

Understanding these rudimentary, but most critical resources, could not be more important to your success in both your personal and your professional lives… use them wisely.

Happy Saturday!