Your happiness and enthusiasm can have a profound impact on the situations you encounter. Your vivaciousness can also help people feel comfortable opening up to you. Vivaciousness can also help people understand that what may appear at first to be a serious situation is actually an opportunity to combine tasks and fun together. A natural ability to create enthusiasm in the most mundane situations is fundamental to one's courage.

Etymology: Greek enthousiasmos, from enthousiazein to be inspired, irregular from entheos inspired, from en- + theos god

1 a : belief in special revelations of the Holy Spirit b : religious fanaticism

2 a : strong excitement of feeling : ARDOR

   b : something inspiring zeal or fervor Merriam-Webster Dictionary 

Your enthusiasm can serve as an inspiration with whom you interact. Sometimes people are unsure as to how best to respond in a given situation. If you become aware of someone's tentative reaction, you can be instrumental in being a role model to ease the tension and set the tone.

Sometimes situations are quite difficult to interpret because the person's grasp of the nuances are driven by their personal feelings. However, any situation can be enjoyable if one enters into it vivaciously and with eagerness. A humdrum get-together can be as exciting as we allow our natural gregariousness and enthusiasm to shine through, thus setting the tone for the event. A shared chore, likewise, can seem like less of a burden when one focuses on the pleasure of good company rather than the rigors of effort. Social activities will become far more enjoyable when you model how fun and enjoyable the situation can become with little effort.

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, Life Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, "101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life." Dr. Dorothy has the unique gift of connecting people with a broad range of profound principles that resonate in the deepest part of their being. She brings awareness to concepts not typically obvious to one's daily thoughts and feelings. http://www.drdorothy.net