"Do you laugh much?"

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I speak to lots of groups—small groups of 25 managers to a thousand or more people participating in an international convention. Regardless of size, I can always tell who’s in the room by how much they laugh.

I typically begin my sharing with something humorous. I do that to determine the stress level of the group. If they are pretty relaxed and dealing with stress well, they laugh spontaneously and loudly. If they are pretty uptight and worried about what’s going on in their offices or at home, they don’t laugh much. And of course there are groups that register in-between.

Notice around your office or at home. The ones who smile, the ones who laugh, the ones who look like they’re having fun, are the ones who deal with stress well. The ones who frown, the ones who look like if they laughed their face would break, the ones who appear to have forgotten how to have fun, they’re the ones who are stressed out.

God gave you the ability to laugh. So laugh today and melt your stress away as you make a life, not just a living.

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