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3 Steps to Build Your Smile on a Strong Foundation

October 17, 2021
woman standing on a strong foundation

How do you build your smile on a strong foundation? How do you strengthen your ability to smile when life situations spiral out of control?

Just like a house needs a proper foundation to keep it stable, we too need a solid base that holds us up, keeps us together with support, care, and a smile. However, there are those of us who have lost their smile, especially those who see the bad in every circumstance.

Our strengths or weaknesses depend on our capabilities and are followed by our determination. We are constantly tested through life’s circumstances, and our ability to smile may disappear when we are overwhelmed by adversity. Fortunately, you can find your smile by building it on a strong foundation using three steps:

Step 1: Have a Desire to Build Your Smile

a hand reaching out at the horizon showing desire for the sunset
a hand reaching out at the horizon showing desire for the sunset

First and foremost, you must have the desire to build your smile on a strong foundation. Find something positive that charges you, that fuels the desire within you to want to smile, to want to be happy. Nothing happens without a strong desire.

Having a deep-seeded desire moves you to action. It’s stronger than a wish for a wish is just hoping things will change. By creating a massive desire for the wish you want, you will figure out how to make it happen. That desire fuels you enough to want to excel.

Step 2: make an Effort to build your smile

Make the effort to build your smile

Secondly, it takes a great deal of effort to build your smile on a strong foundation. Part of the effort requires changing your mindset. Your thought process contributes a lot of why you don’t smile or don’t smile often.

When you try to do something you’re struggling with, it takes an amount of mental effort to remedy the situation. Make the effort to remember what inspired you. Basically, remember the desire you originally felt and push forward.

Step 3: Takes Patience to Build Your Smile

Lastly, building your smile on a strong foundation takes patience. You’re not going to create a strong foundation overnight. Fortunately, with the desire and effort put into it and exercising patience, you will lay a sturdy foundation within yourself to smile, to be happy.

You must have the power of patience, which is a significant by-product of what you do to transform your life and yourself when you know you are on the threshold of change. When you’re making a big change, you grow frustrated when you’re not achieving the results you seek. Therefore, you must practice patience as the desire and effort continues to grow within you.

in Conclusion

So basically, it all ties together by creating a desire, making an effort, and exercising patience to build your smile on a strong foundation.

How strong is your desire? What effort will you apply to achieve the desired result? When you grow frustrated, what tactics will you use to practice patience? Leave me a comment to let me know what worked for you.

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Jennifer, creator of A Smile at a Time

My name is Jennifer, the creator of A Smile at a Time. I believe that women can find their smile amid the chaos of life.

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