Embracing Laughter to Create Success
Do you usually smile or laugh a lot? Do you easily crack into laughter? Do you wonder if you laughed too loudly? Do you wonder what others are thinking of you when you laugh out loud? Do you wonder if it is silly for you to laugh or smile all the time or even think that others might consider you not smart enough for laughing and smiling most of the time? Do you suddenly end the laughter when you find out you are the only one laughing and quickly put on a serious look?
Wonder no more!! Join me in a journey of laughter, self-reflection and the realization that joy, smiles and laughter are God given gifts to be celebrated. In fact, laughter is one of the earliest feedback mechanisms that babies provide and we chuckle and coo when a baby smiles back at us. In a world where many people struggle to crack a smile and default into giving others a blank look; it might be your laughter and smiling face that might be the dose of medicine a heavy-laden heart needs.
Introduction
My name is Grace, unafraid to laugh loudly and smile, both privately and publicly. As a little girl, you could not make me stop laughing. I laughed and giggled with my friends as we played and walked home from school, laughed when reading my class composition short stories in front of the class, i.e. laughed at my own stories, laughed as grandma told the grand kids for the umptieth time, imaginary stories about the "giants" with an eye in their backs that occasionally visited her village when she was young and laughed until I cried when my siblings tickled me.
Fast forward to high school, I remember one instance when a classmate wrote his English short story composition and when he ran out of English words to describe what he wanted to say, he used the native language to complete his sentence and carried on in English in the next sentence. My fruitless attempt to stop laughing led to our study group being dismissed for the afternoon and the teacher agreeing the student should get an A for effort. Please note that no love was lost between me, and my classmate David who scored an A in Math and often reminded us English came by ship to Africa.
In college, my friend KaG often commented that if you wanted to find me, all you had to do was to remain still and listen where laughter was emanating from. With a high level of accuracy, my friend could tell where I was by the regular laughter that revibrated in the dorm corridors. Upon getting married to my adoring husband Gabriel, my best friend Naomi called him and told him, his main job was to make sure I never lose the laughter.... a story for another day.
Welcome to By Grace Laughter Success Blog
A quick google search on self-development resources will yield thousands of results and top amongst the results you will find, power of positive thinking, positive intelligence, the power of affirmations, positive self -talk mindset, good vibes, good life, and think positive to attract happiness. Do you notice a common theme? If you ask someone to think positively, they will probably try to give you a smile or laugh. So, if you have a natural inclination like I do to smiles and laughter, will you help me in affirming to millions of people that it is ok to smile and laugh to increase positive intelligence, create success and a smiley positive world?
How has laughter served me you may ask? Join me in the next few blogs where I will introduce you to Shooting Star Success Habits Blog. A journey on how to get from where you are to where you want to be following the Canfield methodology. Jack Canfield is a New York Times best-selling author of over two hundred books, founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul Book Series, motivational speaker, corporate trainer and entrepreneur. Shooting Star Success habits combine the power of laughter as experienced in my life and the Success Principles as taught in Jack's book, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where you are to where you Want to Be.
In the next few blogs, we will cover the following Success Principles:
Taking 100% Responsibility for Your Life and Your Results
Identifying your Life's Purpose
Deciding What You Want
Unleashing the Power of Goal Setting
Believing It's Possible
Seeing What You Want and Getting What You See
Taking Action
Using Feedback to Your Advantage
Having an Attitude of Gratitude
Do you have a laughter story you would like to share? Let me hear it… grace@theshootingstarsuccess.com
