30 DAY WRITING CHALLENGE

What makes you smile?

There’s a lot to be said for sunshine and cats.

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One of the best ways to increase your positivity, or cheer up on a gloomy day, is to focus on things that make you happy.

If you really don’t know where to start, you can always cheat a bit by reading a list of things that make someone else happy.

Chances are, you will find yourself smiling and nodding — and your own happy thoughts will flow from there.

Here’s a list of 20 things that make me smile:

1. Waking up to tiny paw pats and big headbutts from my cats 🐾
2. A super hot shower on a very cold morning 🚿
3. That first coffee ☕
4. Cracking Wordle in three tries or less💡
5. Strangers in the street who smile at me or say “good morning” 😊
6. Gigantic sunflowers 🌻
7. Walking out of yoga class on Cloud 9 ☁
8. Sleeping cats. They are the nervous type. It warms my heart to see them feeling safe enough to relax, so deeply, they’re snoring. 😸
9. Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, Alan Davies 😂
10. Looking back over a piece of work that took a lot of effort to complete — and…