The name’s James and I am the founder of the startwithsmiles.com website. I created this website to provide an opportunity to start your day in a positive way. In every post I try to include a summary or recap of something positive that real-world people have done. Stories about people overcoming adversity, helping one another, heroic acts or just something happy and/or funny populate the site to start you off with positive energy and happy vibes. Hopefully that energy will set a tone for you and rub off on other people throughout the day.
In addition to the recap, I provide an inspiring and/or motivating quote and a quick video or cartoon designed to prompt a smile or evoke a laugh from your piehole! I have struggled a bit with depression and have truly found laughter and/or smiling to be great medicine. I feel it’s so important to start a day with positive energy, it has helped me deal with some issues from my previous career as a firefighter. I hope you as a reader can find some benefit in these posts as well.
We are bombarded in the news with negative stories, conflict, crime and tales of woe. While it is important to make note of these things so they can be addressed and resources can be allocated to help and repair, my goal here is to turn the mantra ‘If it bleeds it leads’ on its head. I think we all see how the news we get sensationalizes violence, war and disaster. I prefer to start my day using a guideline of ‘If it has heart, it will start.’ It was that or ‘If it farts, it starts,’ and hey, that usually leads to a decent day too.
Thanks for taking the time to get to know me and my blog, please enjoy!
Sincerely,
James McDonald