Journey Across the Smiles: Recognizing Your Choice to Feel Great Every Day

The perfect antidote to the angst created by the widespread pandemic. Uplift yourself now with this book's messages that are both timely and timeless. Bid good riddance to being unhappy, disillusioned and mundane! Happiness becomes you. Through the personal real-life stories of strangers as well as her own experiences and insights, Judi Ronco’s book, Journey Across the Smiles, brings to light how easy it is to switch things up and give your life a megadose of joy, satisfaction, and enthusiasm! What began as a cross-country adventure to visit waterfalls evolved into a spectacular three-year journey of discovery that revealed the snowball effect of a simple positive thought.

Judi began asking perfect strangers to share something good about their lives. To her amazement, their responses were chock full of delicious inspiration that helped unveil a powerful truth. You can seize opportunities to CHOOSE a thought in any given moment that feels better than one that is robbing you of the quality of life you deserve.

Stories of simple pleasures and grand achievements, struggles that were overcome, dreams and visions, and appreciation for all of life make this enchanting book a breath of fresh air. With each story you read, you will see more clearly how:

• perspective directly effects the nectar available in any situation
• awareness of your thoughts and feelings can be your best friend
• seeing life with ‘fresh eyes’ can be a catalyst for self-empowerment
• a ‘peek’ into another’s experience can be utterly enlightening
• gratitude can alter the way life shows up for you

In addition to the impactful stories throughout the book, Judi Ronco invites you to get fired up about moving forward in profound, yet lighthearted ways. In the final section of Journey Across the Smiles, she offers a variety of practical and inspirational tips, fun activities, and reflections to guide your personal development. Once you realize the power you have, your great-feeling life will continue to expand and flourish beyond your wildest dreams!

Judi specializes in the upliftment of the human spirit and passionately guides others to seek the best in themselves and take risks that are likely to enrich the quality of their lives. What she teaches is what she herself has learned. She delights in her roles as an author, certified life coach, workshop facilitator, freelance photographer, retired special needs teacher, friend, sister, loving wife, proud parent of three adult children, and most recently beach-walker! There were a couple of decades of her life when she was deeply and often negatively affected by the simplest disappointments. Drama seemed to spot her a mile away from a young age and latch onto her spirit like a leech, leaving her feeling helpless about her circumstances and hiding her sadness behind a well-crafted smile. Through trial and error, courses and books on self-empowerment and the support of a few dear mentors, an ocean of tears, self-imposed victim mentality, and pure exhaustion began to dissolve into a spectacular adventure of self-discovery and a life-altering change of course. A new woman willing to take responsibility for her thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and actions emerged and for the past 25 years, she has continued to become the grandest version of herself with each day. The smile you see today is blissfully authentic and she shares it unabashedly! Judi loves to experiment with life outside the box. Her solo adventure traveling back and forth across the United States for over three years gives testimony to her desire to try new things in new ways. Simply inviting perfect strangers to share something good in their world and basking in their joy with them turned out to be a win-win surprise of feeling great for everyone involved. This led to a connection with people that she didn't anticipate, and became the driving force behind her book, Journey Across the Smiles. https: //JudiRonco.com