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Table of Contents: On Special Offers and Invitations On Generous Spirit On Short-Term Stress On Adding Punch to Your Humor On Time On Useful Web Sites and Announcements
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1. On Special Offers and Invitations
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2. On Generous Spirit
In dwelling, be close to land. In meditation, go deep in heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of time and season. No fight. No blame. - from Tao Te Ching
The Coach thinks…it is helpful (but challenging) to think about my life being in perfect harmony with way things are. And you?
3. On Short Term Stress
Psychologists Gregory Miller and Suzanne Segerstrom state that when test subjects were asked to speak in public or do mental math in lab, tasks tended to mobilize their fast-acting immune response – body’s all- purpose defense system for stopping our infections and healing our wounds. What they found, compared to controls, was that people subjected to short-term stresses had up to twice as many natural killer cells in their blood ready to fight early stages of infection.
The Coach thinks Jerry Seinfeld may be wrong . . . He said , “most people would rather be in casket than give eulogy.”
4. On Adding Punch To Your Humor
John Kinde, humor specialist offers us five tips to add punch to your platform humor. Make humor a natural part of your daily life. The key to creating humor is awareness of relationships. Find connections between things previously thought unrelated. The pause drives home your punch lines. Pausing emphasizes punch lines. Pausing builds tension. Pausing magnifies your physical delivery. Master power of observational humor. Be focused on your surroundings and what is happening just before you are introduced. Look for connections. Practice observational humor at meetings. A Toastmasters meeting is ideal. At end of meeting, weave an item of observational humor into your closing remarks.
