I often say a child is an adult’s greatest teacher. By simply watching a young child, we learn so much about what true success and achievement really are.
You see, young kids have not yet developed limiting beliefs, aversion to risk or dishonest behaviors. They are explorers, looking curiously and questioning constantly. They still haven’t found out about all that negative stuff we oldies know!
And very importantly, kids laugh several hundred times a day while an adult manages less than 20.
Y’see, their laughter is unconditional while ours tends to be the result of defining some cause to laugh. We seem to need a ‘reason’ to laugh. We take things waaaay too seriously.
Laughter has been shown to have many health and therapeutic benefits, through releasing endorphins, working muscles and lightening depressive tendencies. It’s such an issue that there are now courses, programs and workshops on how to increase your laughter.
Which, by the way, makes ME laugh – how reflective of a sad state of affairs is that?
Action – Reconnect with things you know make you laugh. Watch a funny TV program or movie, go out to a comedy club, play games, particularly kids games, with kids or with other adults, get silly and stupid every now and then.
You used to laugh a lot more than you do now.
(What’s one thing that makes you laugh but, up until now, you have stopped doing? Please share using the comments box.)