WITHOUT laughter in our lives sometimes we can go absolutely nuts. It can be therapy for our mind, body and soul.
A few days ago I was in my room dealing with some challenges and feeling a bit down. I heard this hearty laughter coming from my daughter Mariska’s room and the voices were hers and her sister Shonta’s. I decided to go over to see if this laughter could get contagious because I needed that at the moment.

They were on the bed under the sheet watching reruns of the TV Show ‘Friends’. They have such a great enviable bond as sisters and do so much together including laughing a lot. I joined them for a few minutes and I felt 100 percent better. I can recall one day a friend called me and I answered the phone while in conversation with someone else and I was laughing hysterically. His remark was that laughter sounds good but I can’t remember the last time I did that. That was a WOW moment for me realising people don’t laugh as much as we think. I think the challenges and many stress factors contribute to taking the laughter out of our lives if we allow it.

I am guilty of that I did allow that in the past but not after becoming intentional, that will not happen no matter what. The little things we take for granted sometimes and the things that contribute in a major way to our wellbeing. I even laugh at myself more than you can imagine. A few days ago Nakasia Logan from NCN taught me how to send a ‘we transfer’ file and when I sent the first file I was celebrating as much as when I received the highest honour from Essex County NJ Free Holders President, Britnee Timberlake. It was presented by Lady Ira Lewis on behalf of her boss. After the presentation, Lady Ira and I were cracking up about some of the twists and turns we are faced with in life and agree it is what you make it at the end of the day.

We had an online Zoom discussion on my book `Living with Intention’ and if you have not downloaded yet please do so today on Amazon. We had people joining us from the Caribbean and North America. Dianne Star who is from California but lives in St Lucia shared a story with us that had us laughing on that live stream like we were crazy. She invited her boyfriend over for Thanksgiving and she invented a Caribbean recipe how to prepare Turkey for this special occasion. In the middle of the meal, he started crying so she was confused and then he said he was crying because his taste buds have never experienced such an exotic flavour. We were all laughing telling her she certainly got to his heart through his Stomach!

Tasteful humour is essential to our lives, even in the workplace.
“Humour, by its nature, tends to have an edge to it, so people typically tone it down at work,” says Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do at Work (Portfolio, 2013), and What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast (Portfolio, 2012). “It’s hard to do well and easy to do badly. Plus, we all have a tendency to take ourselves way too seriously.

It is important to the people around me have some wit and for anyone.
“A sense of humour is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don’t give anyone permission to take your laughter way from you.
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