How To Quickly Improve Your Life
by Getting Rid of Your "In Spite Of's"

Are you familiar with Rube Goldberg (1883-
1970)? Rube was a cartoonist known for his
crazy, complicated contraptions that
performed the simplest tasks in the most
ludicrously complex ways. His name has
become an adjective describing the
accomplishment of something simple through
very complex means. More on Rube Goldberg
in a moment...

Seriousness is a Rube Goldberg, by the
way. Seriousness is an obtuse, time
consuming, and supremely complex way to
achieve things in your professional and
personal life that would be done with
less effort, greater effectiveness, and more
aplomb using the natural medicine of
humor. Allow me to elaborate

Using the natural medicine of humor to be
healthier and more successful involves
tapping into a ready and preexisting
reservoir which is already abundantly
present in your personal chemistry. That is
the good news. But we must not underestimate the
fact that using the natural medicine of
humor also involves unlearning and divorcing
ourselves from some deeply ingrained
societal norms and teachings. Don't ever
take for granted, no matter how well my
Fun Factor prescription is working for
you, that your commitment to fun will
always be your innate, first choice when
push comes to shove.

From your youngest days you have been taught
that responsible and productive activity
must be accompanied by seriousness. "Wipe
that smile off your face," you were told -
along with that old standby, "You think
that's funny? I'll show you what's funny!" We
have been indoctrinated, by well-intentioned
people, that lightness, fun, and humor need
to be relegated to our recreational time. The
result of these incorrect teachings? An
epidemic of seriousness in our nation,
resulting in the largest number of stress
symptoms and stress-related illnesses our
medical community has ever seen.

Marshall Goldsmith, a preeminent executive
coach and the founding director of the
Alliance for Strategic Leadership, made some
very cogent points recently that have great
ramifications for you in this regard. Successful
people like you, he said, are successful
because you are doing a lot of things right
(like using the natural medicine of humor). But
successful people, he continued, are also
successful in spite of some incorrect
behavior that they hang on to (like getting
serious).

You've undoubtedly adopted many behaviors
from my Fun Factor prescription which have
helped you create a personal and
professional life more in line with your
dreams and aspirations. But, because you
have been as indoctrinated with societal
beliefs mandating seriousness as the rest of
us, you also carry some incorrect habits
that you're succeeding in spite of. Identifying
your "in spite of" habits can provide an
incredible boost to your efforts to change
your life with the natural medicine of humor.

Take a moment to think about how you're
employing (and not employing) humor and fun
in your life. Take time, right now, to
create two lists:

1. How do you use humor to help you
   achieve successful personal and professional
   results?
2. In what ways, and when, are you still
   superstitiously clinging to getting serious?

The first list you created is a list of
behaviors you're succeeding because of. The
second list shows you behaviors you're
succeeding in spite of. Do you want a
simple and powerful way to make quick and
impactful changes in your personal and
professional life? All you have to do is
increase the behaviors on your first list
and decrease the behaviors on your second!

And do you want a simple and powerful way to
fill your first list to bursting and shrink
your second list to almost nonexistent? Just
make sure you use my Fun Factor
prescription to supercharge your work,
family, and personal life today!

Rube Goldberg published nearly 50,000
cartoons in his 72 years of work and he had
a profound effect on American comedy. As
biographer Peter Marzio wrote, "For
Americans, complex machinery has been ever
present and ever growing, but few Americans
until the arrival of Rube Goldberg saw it as
a subject for comedy." Do yourself a favor
and check out Rube Goldberg!

But, while you're enjoying the cartoons of
Rube Goldberg, make sure you get rid of
the "Rube Goldberg" in your life -
seriousness. Use my Fun Factor prescription
and the information on my website to make
your personal and professional efforts
simpler and more effective.

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Some Humor for the Week

"If you had to identify, in one word, the
reason why the human race has not and never
will achieve its full potential, that
word would be: meetings."
Dave Barry