Smile! You Can Change the World…

This week I officially launch the print tour of my book Model Behavior, beginning in Sacramento, CA at Sac Fashion Week. I just came off the runway in New York at Fashion Week there, and I am so excited to be sharing knowledge and inspiration with would-be models, designers and creatives in the industry.

Me on alumni day of my old ballet school Ballet Renaissance in Detroit. Notice the smiles…

I’ll be on a Fashion Industry Forum panel Monday night February 25th, on Good Day Sacramento (C31) and appearing in other media and radio outlet interviews that same week. If you are local please join me at my exclusive book signing reception where you can get a photo with me and hang out together at the Face It Salon & Boutique in Midtown, and help us raise some funds for programs for kids and healthy body image. More details coming in the next few days…but all of which makes me smile!!

This week’s column is appropriate for we need not wait for a single moment before starting to improve the world. We can start with simple, yet extremely affective actions. If I have said it once, I have said it a million times, “Smile! You’d be surprised at how this little thing can change your whole day.” (Naima Mora: Model Behavior) You’d be surprised at how this little thing can change someone else’s whole day!

I believe that as human beings who live collectively together, we are responsible for one another on a daily basis. When we act selfishly, thinking only of ourselves, we refute the fact that we are part of an environment and that our actions have a deep impact on that environment. When others around us are happy, we are happy too! When I happen to pass a stranger who seems sad, I give them a smile. I hope that in this small gesture I can make their day a little happier. A small act is never too small when it is based on compassion and love!

Our joy and happiness comes from the inside out. It comes from our heart, a miraculous thing that can produce endless amounts of joy and happiness. So, why not share it?

We need not wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. What is that one thing you love to do so much, but never have time for? When you get home late at night after work and all you want to do is watch TV and sack out, use the time instead to invest in that project you’ve been putting off. It makes you happy, so why not? When we are happy by doing what makes us happy, we become a life that is energized – creation in its purest form. So no matter how tired we are, we begin changing ourselves on a much deeper level- thus changing our environment and improving the world. Because when we are happy, others around us become happy too!

Join me by smiling and thinking about what you could be doing with your life or career to change the world…share your ideas with me here! 

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