SmileThroughIt

SmileThroughIt was the name of my original blog, starting on the WordPress.com platform back in 2006, which followed the lead up to my life-saving double-lung transplant the following year.

Smile Through It is also my personal philosophy on life – no matter how hard things get, if you can find one thing every day that makes you laugh, or even just smile, then that day has been worthwhile.

If you’re really mindful, really present in every day you live, you begin to realise that even in the worst of situations, there is always something to smile about.

This new incarnation of the SmileThroughIt website and blog is designed to do two things:

1. Remind myself daily of my own philosophy.

2. Share my thoughts and ideas with others who may be able to learn and benefit for them.

My great mistake in blogging was to move away from the blogs I enjoyed writing and to try to write things that pleased other people before me. I now know that doesn’t work.

If this site and the posts it contains interest and inspire other people, that’s fantastic. If not, well, that’s not what they were designed to do in the first place. As long as the interest and inspire me, that’s all that counts.

I hope you’ll join me for the ride.

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