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Mastering the Therapeutic Art of Laughing At Yourself
A 12-Step Program for Exceptionalists Anonymous
Posted May 15, 2014
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ambigamy/201405/mastering-the-therapeutic-art-laughing-yourself
I’ve always liked people laughing with me more than at me
Still, over the years I’ve also acquired a taste for people laughing with me at me.
Not always, but I’m getting better at it. Deliberately. For my health. If laughter is the best medicine, laughter at myself is a wonder drug. Self-effacing laughter is the best laxative for loosening a stuck up sense of self, keeping oneself regular, not an exception.
There’s a lot of talk about mindfulness these days. Here I’m aspiring to Don’t-Mindfulness, a body so fortified by self-effacing humor that it doesn’t mind exposure as an unexceptional muddling pompous buffoon.
More and more, I work to know that follies of humankind by introspection.
Reverse engineering from my experience, here’s a loose sequence for cultivating the art of self-effacing humor, 12 steps to overcoming the prickly pride of exceptionalism, the natural-born belief that one is inherently above the rest, exceptionally wise, thoughtful, kind or deserving by any standard, really, getting over the whole question of whether I’m exceptional, either better or worse than others.
Oddly, the steps as I see them start with cattiness, a lusty appetite to laugh at others. Indeed I wonder whether people too pure of heart to laugh at others can get very far through the steps. Here goes.
1. Laugh At Others:
Feed your exceptionalism by laughing at the folly you see in others. Consider yourself exceptionally sharp for being able to spot it, further evidence of your exceptional astuteness.
2. Generalize About Their Stupidity:
Discover the formulas that produce stupid behavior. Consider yourself exceptionally wise for figuring out these formulas.
3. Laugh With Others At Others:
Find others who generalize as you do. Savor your collective exceptionalism, that age-old tribal satisfaction of laughing around the campfire at non-tribe members.
4. Laugh at Other’s Double Standards:
Notice that the biggest general formula for stupidity is hypocrisy, other people thinking they’re special or deserving. Laugh with your tribe at other people’s double standards. “The nerve of some folk!”
5. Notice Your Own Double Standards:
“The nerve of your folk.” Within your own exceptional tribe suddenly you notice double standards, or worse have your double standards pointed out by them. See your own double standards for the first time. You’re not exempt. You and your kind have double standards too. Now what?
6. Laugh Nervously At Your Own Double Standards:
Now what? Restore your exceptionalism by being the first to admit to having double standards. Laugh at your own double standards, but if anyone laughs with you at you at your double standards, then it’s not funny.
7. Laugh Dismissively About Everyone’s Double Standards:
So what if you’ve got double standards? Everyone does and there’s no escaping them. Stay exceptional by laughing at anyone idealistic enough to think double standards are a problem. Don’t take life so seriously. It’s just a game, everyone just trying to impose their double standards on everyone else. Life is all just a joke.
8. Get badly sobered by a double standard:
Lose someone or something important because of your double standards or theirs. Discover that you can’t just laugh them off. So try staying exceptional by renouncing your double standards.
9. Laugh With Them At Your Now-Eradicated Double Standards:
Yes, you had double standards but not any more. Now you can laugh with others at yourself and your former double standards. And feel exceptional for having eradicated them.
10. Discover That You haven’t Eradicated Your Double Standards:
For all your commitment to eradicating your hypocritical double standard, you’ve failed. You still find evidence of your double standards. Feel exceptional but in a bad way, exceptionally hypocritical, no laughing matter.
11. Join Humanity:
Surrender your exceptionalism. You’re no worse than those you laugh at, nor better. You’re one of them, a member of the human race, part striving to prove exceptional, part trying to get over yourself. Begin to laugh with us at us, not nervously, not dismissively but acceptingly of the tension we all live with all our days, the striving to be, and at the same time overcome our need to be exceptional.
12. Laugh With Them At Yourself:
No longer hell bent on being an exception, but half-bent toward it and toward accepting that you’ve got versions of all the traits you’ve laugh at in others, you’re finally free to laugh while striving, enjoying the ride, the life of human who wants the free ride you thought was granted to the exceptional, but is granted to none of us.
Laugh At Yourself: The 11 Ways Over-Thinking Is The Reason You’re Miserable
elitedaily.com/life/15-signs-might-taking-seriously/
Lauren Martin - in WELLNESS - Mar 12, 2014
Life is stressful. For many of us, it seems like a series of obstacles we need to constantly overcome. We become obsessed with the mundane, worrying about every plight and every wrongdoing, stressing about the controllable and uncontrollable.
We become irritated, aggravated and annoyed at the slightest inconvenience, wrapping our happiness up in factors around us that are, many times, out of our control.
We carry an invisible weight, over-thinking everything and holding a heavy heart. But as the days pass and the sun rises and the moon sets, I must ask, why? Why are we taking everything so seriously? When did we become so small under the weight of worrying?
The late David Foster Wallace once gave an iconic graduation speech called “This Is Water,” in which he urged graduates to pay attention to the life around them and not get weighed down by the mundane, trivial aspects of adult life. He preached self-awareness and freedom from the rat race we’ve come to know as life.
“The capital-T, Truth, is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness — awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: ‘This is water, this is water.’”
This idea of “this is water” can be hard to wrap our minds around because it’s such a simple concept. We have a tendency to over-think things, to look at life a million other ways than just living in it, through it. We analyze, theorize and postulate our time on earth, rather than just immerse ourselves in it. Our minds are always somewhere else, somewhere distant and obscure, usually leading to missed moments and opportunities and replacing them with ulcers and panic attacks.
However, it doesn’t have to be this way. You can make a conscious effort to laugh at yourself, to laugh at life. You don’t have to conform to the human tendency to live life like it’s a competition, or even anything more than a beautiful and fleeting experience. Because as everyone keeps telling you, it’s over pretty quickly and all that petty stuff you’re worrying about now won’t mean sh*t when you’re dead. So maybe figure out if the reason you’re not enjoying life all the time is that you’re taking it a bit too seriously.
You Can’t Laugh At Yourself
Being able to laugh at yourself is one of the first steps to freeing yourself. If you live your life afraid to be who you are and admit to your inherent weirdness, you are alienating yourself from the rest of the world. Life isn’t about hiding behind the things that make you different or unique; it’s about showcasing them as markers of your individuality.
You Get Irritated When Thing Don’t Go Your Way
Sh*t is always going to go wrong. Whether it’s a long line in the check-out aisle, or your friends canceling on your dinner plans, there’s no smooth sailing through life. Instead, it’s about rolling with the punches, growing from the obstacles and learning to get over the petty, insignificant bullsh*t that will only bring you down if you let it.
You Hold Grudges
Gautama Buddha said, “Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” There is no better way to describe the adverse effects of holding grudges. Life is too short to be weighed down by anger and resentment when you could easily let it go.
You Stress About Things That Can’t Be Changed
There really is no use in crying over spilled milk. Once something happens, the only way to move on is to move forward. Thinking and worrying about how to change situations that can’t be solved is a waste of your time.
You Can’t Adapt To Change
If you can’t adapt to change, you aren’t living your life correctly. There’s a constant need to change, and the cycles of the Earth are just part of our natural rhythm. To change is to evolve and to resist that change is to resist becoming a better, more adaptable person.
You Can’t Admit To Your Flaws
Flaws are part of us. They are the ugly parts we don’t want anyone to see. We view them as weaknesses, hiding behind them and thus, hiding with them. If you are constantly scared to show your flaws, you are resisting showing yourself to the rest of the world.
You Don’t Know How To Live In The Moment
One of the most irresponsible vices that plagues our society is the inability to live in the moment, to enjoy the now and truly be present. If you are constantly thinking about tomorrow, yesterday or 10 years from now, then you are missing out on your life.
You Can’t Say Sorry
Being able to apologize, whether you truly feel in the wrong or not, is an important step in freeing yourself from the weight of guilt and the burden of others. Apologizing is a humbling experience for both you and the people around you. Refusing to admit defeat or wrongdoing will only lead to a life of petty arguments and constant confrontation.
You’re Hypercritical
Judging everyone else is not only exhausting but will lead to a life with little friends and little patience. You have no right to judge anyone anymore than he or she has the right to judge you. Believing that a person’s flaws are a sign of weakness or ineptitude is an ignorance that will destroy you slowly from the inside, if everyone else doesn’t come after you first.
You’re Afraid Of Doing Anything That May Affect Your Future
The future is as ambiguous as death itself. Planning your life around an unpredictable outcome results is ignoring the present and never truly living in the moment. Planning for a life that doesn’t exist yet is like refusing to live at all.
You Think You’re Smarter Than Everyone
Arrogance is a quality that will leave you not only friendless, but also unable to live harmoniously with the life around you. Believing you are better than everyone is a recipe for alienation and a life of complete solitude and contempt for and by those around you.
Learning How To Laugh At Yourself Builds Your Self-Esteem
www.lessonsfromlois.com/view_article.php?articleID=3
Studies reveal that 2 out of 3 people suffer from low self-esteem. If you are sitting at lunch with 2 of your friends, only one of you has healthy self-esteem. Who is it?
The answer may turn out to be a matter of perception. Our true beliefs and inner feelings of self-worth can be very different from those we reveal openly to others. Many of us are experts at displaying an outward appearance of confidence and self-acceptance, while feeling insecure or inadequate on the inside.
Accepting the Unchangeable
All of us have some aspects of our physical features or personality that don't meet our approval. Jeanne Robertson, one of America's most loved and respected humorists, tells us, "We can never truly learn to laugh at ourselves until we learn to accept the things about ourselves that are either impossible or impractical to be changed."
These unique characteristics often have the potential to be funny, if viewed through humorous eyes. When we identify and accept our uniqueness, we are able to laugh about our idiosyncrasies or shortcomings. Easily said, but not so easily done.
Is something silently eroding your self-esteem?
David Granirer, PsychoTherapist/Stand-Up Comic, suggests a "contrary attitude" exercise for finding the humor in your life and using it to build self-esteem. You take something about yourself or your life that you consider negative, talk about how much you love it, and why you love it.
For example, I went through a period of misplacing my car keys. Instead of belittling my behavior, I remarked, "I don't mind frantically looking for my car keys. I love the challenge of a scavenger hunt, and the thrill of racing against the clock to be on time."
Separating "what you do" from "who you are" provides the distance you need to find the humor in your situation and Q-TIP (Quit Taking It Personal).
Our level of self-esteem is often associated with what we are capable of doing, or by our achievements. When we don't meet our own expectations, the negative self-talk we inflict upon ourselves results in lower self-esteem.
After my brain injury, the planning and preparation of meals was difficult and exhausting. The failed attempts were hard on my self-esteem. For years I felt like I was failing as a wife and mother, in the kitchen. Joking about my loss of cooking ability, helps me accept myself, just as I am.
"I used to be a good cook. Now, it's good if I cook!"
The ability to laugh at ourselves allows us the opportunity to embrace our flaws, and promotes self-acceptance. It does not include harmful putdowns, ridicule or negative sarcasm. Nor are we advertising that we are defective, rather we are demonstrating that we are human.
Humor is a positive coping mechanism that not only improves our mood, it builds our self-esteem. Unfortunately, we often resort to all kinds of unhealthy coping mechanisms like drinking, smoking, eating, overworking, etc. to make ourselves feel good. While these habits offer temporary boosts, they further undermine our self-esteem.
"I may do stupid things, but I am not stupid!"
Remember, it's not just what you do that defines who you are. More over, it's how you handle what you do, that defines who you really are.
...........................................
Lois McElravy, Lessons from Lois, works with individuals and organizations who want to learn how to use the power of humor and the magic of laughter to handle the demands and pressures of work and home, adjust to constant change, deal with difficult people, cope with the unpredictable swift pace of life, product positive outcomes and have more fun.
Learning to laugh and "hangin' on with humor" rescued Lois from the distress and despair surrounding her daily life, and initiated her recovery from a brain injury. Lois' keynotes and trainings entertain, inspire and stimulate audiences to examine their own response to challenge and adversity. Hilarious personal stories, "Lessons from Lois" impart life-changing insights and equip participants with humor strategies and practical solutions to overcome the seriousness of their life challenges and feel happy.
Her universal message renews hope and motivates others to consistently do small things so they can achieve amazing results one day at a time.
©2012 Lois McElravy, Lessons from Lois - Permission to reprint or repost this article is granted by including the above byline and Lois' contact information. www.lessonsfromlois.com
A 12-Step Program for Exceptionalists Anonymous
Posted May 15, 2014
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ambigamy/201405/mastering-the-therapeutic-art-laughing-yourself
I’ve always liked people laughing with me more than at me
Still, over the years I’ve also acquired a taste for people laughing with me at me.
Not always, but I’m getting better at it. Deliberately. For my health. If laughter is the best medicine, laughter at myself is a wonder drug. Self-effacing laughter is the best laxative for loosening a stuck up sense of self, keeping oneself regular, not an exception.
There’s a lot of talk about mindfulness these days. Here I’m aspiring to Don’t-Mindfulness, a body so fortified by self-effacing humor that it doesn’t mind exposure as an unexceptional muddling pompous buffoon.
More and more, I work to know that follies of humankind by introspection.
Reverse engineering from my experience, here’s a loose sequence for cultivating the art of self-effacing humor, 12 steps to overcoming the prickly pride of exceptionalism, the natural-born belief that one is inherently above the rest, exceptionally wise, thoughtful, kind or deserving by any standard, really, getting over the whole question of whether I’m exceptional, either better or worse than others.
Oddly, the steps as I see them start with cattiness, a lusty appetite to laugh at others. Indeed I wonder whether people too pure of heart to laugh at others can get very far through the steps. Here goes.
1. Laugh At Others:
Feed your exceptionalism by laughing at the folly you see in others. Consider yourself exceptionally sharp for being able to spot it, further evidence of your exceptional astuteness.
2. Generalize About Their Stupidity:
Discover the formulas that produce stupid behavior. Consider yourself exceptionally wise for figuring out these formulas.
3. Laugh With Others At Others:
Find others who generalize as you do. Savor your collective exceptionalism, that age-old tribal satisfaction of laughing around the campfire at non-tribe members.
4. Laugh at Other’s Double Standards:
Notice that the biggest general formula for stupidity is hypocrisy, other people thinking they’re special or deserving. Laugh with your tribe at other people’s double standards. “The nerve of some folk!”
5. Notice Your Own Double Standards:
“The nerve of your folk.” Within your own exceptional tribe suddenly you notice double standards, or worse have your double standards pointed out by them. See your own double standards for the first time. You’re not exempt. You and your kind have double standards too. Now what?
6. Laugh Nervously At Your Own Double Standards:
Now what? Restore your exceptionalism by being the first to admit to having double standards. Laugh at your own double standards, but if anyone laughs with you at you at your double standards, then it’s not funny.
7. Laugh Dismissively About Everyone’s Double Standards:
So what if you’ve got double standards? Everyone does and there’s no escaping them. Stay exceptional by laughing at anyone idealistic enough to think double standards are a problem. Don’t take life so seriously. It’s just a game, everyone just trying to impose their double standards on everyone else. Life is all just a joke.
8. Get badly sobered by a double standard:
Lose someone or something important because of your double standards or theirs. Discover that you can’t just laugh them off. So try staying exceptional by renouncing your double standards.
9. Laugh With Them At Your Now-Eradicated Double Standards:
Yes, you had double standards but not any more. Now you can laugh with others at yourself and your former double standards. And feel exceptional for having eradicated them.
10. Discover That You haven’t Eradicated Your Double Standards:
For all your commitment to eradicating your hypocritical double standard, you’ve failed. You still find evidence of your double standards. Feel exceptional but in a bad way, exceptionally hypocritical, no laughing matter.
11. Join Humanity:
Surrender your exceptionalism. You’re no worse than those you laugh at, nor better. You’re one of them, a member of the human race, part striving to prove exceptional, part trying to get over yourself. Begin to laugh with us at us, not nervously, not dismissively but acceptingly of the tension we all live with all our days, the striving to be, and at the same time overcome our need to be exceptional.
12. Laugh With Them At Yourself:
No longer hell bent on being an exception, but half-bent toward it and toward accepting that you’ve got versions of all the traits you’ve laugh at in others, you’re finally free to laugh while striving, enjoying the ride, the life of human who wants the free ride you thought was granted to the exceptional, but is granted to none of us.
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Laugh At Yourself: The 11 Ways Over-Thinking Is The Reason You’re Miserable
elitedaily.com/life/15-signs-might-taking-seriously/
Lauren Martin - in WELLNESS - Mar 12, 2014
Life is stressful. For many of us, it seems like a series of obstacles we need to constantly overcome. We become obsessed with the mundane, worrying about every plight and every wrongdoing, stressing about the controllable and uncontrollable.
We become irritated, aggravated and annoyed at the slightest inconvenience, wrapping our happiness up in factors around us that are, many times, out of our control.
We carry an invisible weight, over-thinking everything and holding a heavy heart. But as the days pass and the sun rises and the moon sets, I must ask, why? Why are we taking everything so seriously? When did we become so small under the weight of worrying?
The late David Foster Wallace once gave an iconic graduation speech called “This Is Water,” in which he urged graduates to pay attention to the life around them and not get weighed down by the mundane, trivial aspects of adult life. He preached self-awareness and freedom from the rat race we’ve come to know as life.
“The capital-T, Truth, is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness — awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: ‘This is water, this is water.’”
This idea of “this is water” can be hard to wrap our minds around because it’s such a simple concept. We have a tendency to over-think things, to look at life a million other ways than just living in it, through it. We analyze, theorize and postulate our time on earth, rather than just immerse ourselves in it. Our minds are always somewhere else, somewhere distant and obscure, usually leading to missed moments and opportunities and replacing them with ulcers and panic attacks.
However, it doesn’t have to be this way. You can make a conscious effort to laugh at yourself, to laugh at life. You don’t have to conform to the human tendency to live life like it’s a competition, or even anything more than a beautiful and fleeting experience. Because as everyone keeps telling you, it’s over pretty quickly and all that petty stuff you’re worrying about now won’t mean sh*t when you’re dead. So maybe figure out if the reason you’re not enjoying life all the time is that you’re taking it a bit too seriously.
You Can’t Laugh At Yourself
Being able to laugh at yourself is one of the first steps to freeing yourself. If you live your life afraid to be who you are and admit to your inherent weirdness, you are alienating yourself from the rest of the world. Life isn’t about hiding behind the things that make you different or unique; it’s about showcasing them as markers of your individuality.
You Get Irritated When Thing Don’t Go Your Way
Sh*t is always going to go wrong. Whether it’s a long line in the check-out aisle, or your friends canceling on your dinner plans, there’s no smooth sailing through life. Instead, it’s about rolling with the punches, growing from the obstacles and learning to get over the petty, insignificant bullsh*t that will only bring you down if you let it.
You Hold Grudges
Gautama Buddha said, “Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” There is no better way to describe the adverse effects of holding grudges. Life is too short to be weighed down by anger and resentment when you could easily let it go.
You Stress About Things That Can’t Be Changed
There really is no use in crying over spilled milk. Once something happens, the only way to move on is to move forward. Thinking and worrying about how to change situations that can’t be solved is a waste of your time.
You Can’t Adapt To Change
If you can’t adapt to change, you aren’t living your life correctly. There’s a constant need to change, and the cycles of the Earth are just part of our natural rhythm. To change is to evolve and to resist that change is to resist becoming a better, more adaptable person.
You Can’t Admit To Your Flaws
Flaws are part of us. They are the ugly parts we don’t want anyone to see. We view them as weaknesses, hiding behind them and thus, hiding with them. If you are constantly scared to show your flaws, you are resisting showing yourself to the rest of the world.
You Don’t Know How To Live In The Moment
One of the most irresponsible vices that plagues our society is the inability to live in the moment, to enjoy the now and truly be present. If you are constantly thinking about tomorrow, yesterday or 10 years from now, then you are missing out on your life.
You Can’t Say Sorry
Being able to apologize, whether you truly feel in the wrong or not, is an important step in freeing yourself from the weight of guilt and the burden of others. Apologizing is a humbling experience for both you and the people around you. Refusing to admit defeat or wrongdoing will only lead to a life of petty arguments and constant confrontation.
You’re Hypercritical
Judging everyone else is not only exhausting but will lead to a life with little friends and little patience. You have no right to judge anyone anymore than he or she has the right to judge you. Believing that a person’s flaws are a sign of weakness or ineptitude is an ignorance that will destroy you slowly from the inside, if everyone else doesn’t come after you first.
You’re Afraid Of Doing Anything That May Affect Your Future
The future is as ambiguous as death itself. Planning your life around an unpredictable outcome results is ignoring the present and never truly living in the moment. Planning for a life that doesn’t exist yet is like refusing to live at all.
You Think You’re Smarter Than Everyone
Arrogance is a quality that will leave you not only friendless, but also unable to live harmoniously with the life around you. Believing you are better than everyone is a recipe for alienation and a life of complete solitude and contempt for and by those around you.
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Learning How To Laugh At Yourself Builds Your Self-Esteem
www.lessonsfromlois.com/view_article.php?articleID=3
Studies reveal that 2 out of 3 people suffer from low self-esteem. If you are sitting at lunch with 2 of your friends, only one of you has healthy self-esteem. Who is it?
The answer may turn out to be a matter of perception. Our true beliefs and inner feelings of self-worth can be very different from those we reveal openly to others. Many of us are experts at displaying an outward appearance of confidence and self-acceptance, while feeling insecure or inadequate on the inside.
Accepting the Unchangeable
All of us have some aspects of our physical features or personality that don't meet our approval. Jeanne Robertson, one of America's most loved and respected humorists, tells us, "We can never truly learn to laugh at ourselves until we learn to accept the things about ourselves that are either impossible or impractical to be changed."
These unique characteristics often have the potential to be funny, if viewed through humorous eyes. When we identify and accept our uniqueness, we are able to laugh about our idiosyncrasies or shortcomings. Easily said, but not so easily done.
Is something silently eroding your self-esteem?
David Granirer, PsychoTherapist/Stand-Up Comic, suggests a "contrary attitude" exercise for finding the humor in your life and using it to build self-esteem. You take something about yourself or your life that you consider negative, talk about how much you love it, and why you love it.
For example, I went through a period of misplacing my car keys. Instead of belittling my behavior, I remarked, "I don't mind frantically looking for my car keys. I love the challenge of a scavenger hunt, and the thrill of racing against the clock to be on time."
Separating "what you do" from "who you are" provides the distance you need to find the humor in your situation and Q-TIP (Quit Taking It Personal).
Our level of self-esteem is often associated with what we are capable of doing, or by our achievements. When we don't meet our own expectations, the negative self-talk we inflict upon ourselves results in lower self-esteem.
After my brain injury, the planning and preparation of meals was difficult and exhausting. The failed attempts were hard on my self-esteem. For years I felt like I was failing as a wife and mother, in the kitchen. Joking about my loss of cooking ability, helps me accept myself, just as I am.
"I used to be a good cook. Now, it's good if I cook!"
The ability to laugh at ourselves allows us the opportunity to embrace our flaws, and promotes self-acceptance. It does not include harmful putdowns, ridicule or negative sarcasm. Nor are we advertising that we are defective, rather we are demonstrating that we are human.
Humor is a positive coping mechanism that not only improves our mood, it builds our self-esteem. Unfortunately, we often resort to all kinds of unhealthy coping mechanisms like drinking, smoking, eating, overworking, etc. to make ourselves feel good. While these habits offer temporary boosts, they further undermine our self-esteem.
"I may do stupid things, but I am not stupid!"
Remember, it's not just what you do that defines who you are. More over, it's how you handle what you do, that defines who you really are.
...........................................
Lois McElravy, Lessons from Lois, works with individuals and organizations who want to learn how to use the power of humor and the magic of laughter to handle the demands and pressures of work and home, adjust to constant change, deal with difficult people, cope with the unpredictable swift pace of life, product positive outcomes and have more fun.
Learning to laugh and "hangin' on with humor" rescued Lois from the distress and despair surrounding her daily life, and initiated her recovery from a brain injury. Lois' keynotes and trainings entertain, inspire and stimulate audiences to examine their own response to challenge and adversity. Hilarious personal stories, "Lessons from Lois" impart life-changing insights and equip participants with humor strategies and practical solutions to overcome the seriousness of their life challenges and feel happy.
Her universal message renews hope and motivates others to consistently do small things so they can achieve amazing results one day at a time.
©2012 Lois McElravy, Lessons from Lois - Permission to reprint or repost this article is granted by including the above byline and Lois' contact information. www.lessonsfromlois.com