
… answer. Better to be the life and the light than to be abandoned and admonished for your darkness. That was, with rare exception, my default programming from that point forward: Smile and people will feel good. Sit stone-faced and they’ll inquire. Joke and folks will dig you. Express your tumult and folks will joke about you, if they even notice you at all.
Charles Haanel, considered to be the father of modern self-improvement said,“Remember that no matter what the difficulty is, no matter where it is, no matter who is affected, you have no patient but yourself; you have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth which you desire to see manifest.”