StaySmilinLife is an online platform of blogs, resources, materials, and tips that will help you shape your personal path toward happiness. StaySmilinLife was created to inspire you to choose happiness through transforming and supporting a positive mindset. The four of us who’ve created StaySmilinLife wholeheartedly believe everyone deserves to be happy, and you will find our content helps people feel in control, and empowered to choose happiness. The four of us, Carlos, Kristina, Tayari and Yoichi, come from diverse backgrounds and different walks of life. Combined we are a: Licensed Clinical Social Worker, accountant, operations manager, family business owner, teacher, entrepreneurs, and more importantly, we are active live’ ers of life who’ve found solid smiles despite the hardships we have each faced.

The StaySmilinLife philosophy is a culmination of our own experiences as well as the hundreds of people we have worked with. We have found that happiness is more of a result of honestly assessing and addressing 9-ish life areas, rather than something a person pursues or attains. The areas of life that we challenge you, and will help guide you, to look at are your: Purpose, Health, Self (Self-Esteem/Image and Personal Stories), Productivity, Finance, Mental Diet, Environment, Hobbies, and Human Connection (Family, Friends, Love, Boundaries, and Community). By taking an honest and deep look at these areas, and then working to address what you find which is causing discomfort, pain, embarrassment, heartache, sadness, regret, among any other feelings, you can begin to build up all things YOU, and we hope you see happiness will join you for the journey.

The unfortunate truth is that for most people this won’t happen overnight. But that’s the point isn’t it? If we said “If you do these 5 easy things for the next 21 minutes, you will be happy forever,” we would be lying and we hope your gut would tell you to run. Life is a journey to be lived a day, a moment, a second at a time. Happiness comes when you live life a second, a moment, and a day at a time. The resources you will find within this platform will serve as tools and smile reminders, we like to call them #smileminders, so you can do the good work on yourself (the only person who CAN actually do such work). 

Understanding everyone learns in their own way, we are filling the StaySmilinLife platform with blogs, videos, and physical #smileminders. We hope you are active participants in living a StaySmilinLife and provide us with your priceless stories and experiences throughout our platform, such as sharing your story with us in our Smile Lost n’ Found. Feel free to leave comments where you can and you are always welcome to send us feedback.

StaySmilinLife started in 2011 in a rough work environment when we put a simple =) on a hat to remind people that they too can choose to smile in the moment. Walking around with this hat led to people constantly asking for hats (aka #smileminder) and then tools, tips, and tricks as to how they can transform to having a positive mindset. Eight years later, after a crazy amount of work finding our own smiles and learning how to empower others find theirs, StaySmilinLife was born.

Welcome to the rest of your life. Join us on the journey to make the most of life, and enjoy the people, places, things, experiences, memories, frustration, pain, joy and happiness that being a human on this planet affords us. We believe Happiness is a Choice, and we believe in YOU.

StaySmilin,

Carlos, Kristina, Tayari, & Yoichi