Sunday, October 18, 2009

Laughter: Reset Your Emotional Bank

By the time you are in your 40’s, your face may become a roadmap of pain. That is why those, deep crevasses on your face are known as laughter lines, crows feet, wrinkles and other cosmetic unmentionables. Face the facts: we age. But, can we age gracefully? [Read this blog: Age Before Beauty]

If only we can turn back time…[We cannot]. If only there was a reset button, like the one you find when your PC or mobile phone ‘hangs’. The reset button restores things back to order. Reeves Leong also talks about the ‘reset button’ for the economy and branding.

I can relate to a reset button, having spent the past year considering and configuring my personal branding. In the business of presentation, you will need to define, and refine yourself. What are your differentiators? What makes you more relevant than others? You need to mark yourself out differently. What is your signature? Reset yourself, and reconfigure your value for tomorrow. What are you doing to reinvent yourself so as to stay relevant.

For some of us, it is that reset button called the ‘panic button’ or ‘belly button’. For others, it is laughter. Yes, good, plain old, ‘ha ha’ laughter. Laughter may be the best medicine, as Dr Norman Cousins wrote when he healed himself back into good health. A laugh a day keeps the doctor away. Laughter is a whole body, physiological experience where major muscles like your abdomen, lungs and heart get a physical workout.

Want a good laugh – it is a point and click away. Go to YouTube.com. Watch comedians like Richard Pryor, Russell Peters, Katt Williams, Chris Rock, and many others.

Upset? Reset your button. Have a good laugh.

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