How are you ?

If someone asks you this question while on phone, on the corridor or on the stairs , whats your response going to be ???

"hmm not bad....." (in a monotonous voice...)
"good.. and you... " (in a subdued tone)

Did you ever think of giving these responses:

"FFantaaastic and how about you "
"Excellent and how are you doing today!!!! "

These responses will surely raise some eyebrows, wake up your listener to you, might make him feel good by the energy you transmitted through your talk and finally will certainly make YOU feel better... much better... dont believe me .. just try it....!! It works... (its not really a new thing that I am proposing here.. One of my good friend told me this from a self help lecture he had attended..)

Whatever you term this kind of response.... I would coin it as "Just be BULLISH on life" sometimes atleast ;-)