That's MISTER Smar....oh....right. Anyway, since I'm avoiding work at all costs today, I'll elaborate:
Your question has no answer. In fact, I'm not even sure it's a question. What are you panning? how is it you expect to pan something to make it better? What are you recording? How many tracks? How dense/sparse? What do you want it to sound like? What bands do you like? How do they pan their stuff?
How something is panned generally has no bearing on whether it sounds 'good' or not. a well mixed song generally sounds good in mono or stereo.
Generic answer that may or may not help:
Generally think of the soundscape as a 3D space. Panning places things L to R. Volume and reverb can make things seem farther away or closer. Pitch/tone kind of places things vertically. Given that, plop things in so that it stays fairly balanced, panned as wide or narrow as you like.
And generally keep bass guitar, kick, snare and lead vocals fairly close to center, unless you are going for a particular effect.
Is that better? Scheesh!