The Los Angeles Lakers won the first game of Earvin "Magic" Johnson's Hall-of-Fame professional basketball career on a last second shot. Magic, fresh from winning the NCAA basketball championship as a collegiate athlete, jumped jubilantly into veteran teammate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's arms. Abdul-Jabbar, nearing the end of his own Hall-of-Fame career, looked down at the rookie and said, stoically, "Calm down, kid. We've got eighty-one more to play."
Celebrating Everything is one of the Fun Commandments I teach in my unique Fun Factor prescription. To unlock the natural medicine of humor, you should understand that celebration is more attitude than action; you don't have to throw confetti and blow noisemakers to celebrate! That's great news for us, because we are always in complete control of our attitude - regardless of the circumstances.
Learning to celebrate everything allows us to develop gratitude for some unlikely things...things that most people see as negatives. For example, when a bill arrives, my commitment to celebrate everything often reminds me that I'm simply paying for a blessing I've already received. Similarly, a salesman friend told me that his career took off when he learned to celebrate rejection; he happily reminds himself each time rejection happens that it takes nine "no's" to get one "yes."
The other main benefit to celebrating everything is the joy you experience. Joy is our most natural state and allowing ourselves to feel it turbo-charges humor's natural medicine. If you want more joy, cultivate more gratitude - be grateful for the simplest things that you usually take for granted!
And if you want more gratitude, as I've already recommended, celebrate everything! Now you've got the secret formula! Celebrating leads to gratitude, gratitude leads to joy, and joy taps into your wealth of natural medicine. Make sure you visit my website today and let me teach you more...for free!
Luckily, although he tempered the physical expression of it in deference to his veteran teammate, Magic Johnson never lost his celebratory enthusiasm. He always played hard and celebrated everything - creating the famed Laker "Showtime" era in Los Angeles. And, consequently, because of his desire to celebrate everything, Magic Johnson got to celebrate a few world championships with the Lakers (and so did his teammate, Kareem).
Follow Magic's example. Who cares if you've got "eighty-one more to play"? Celebrate everything today!
Cliff Kuhn, M.D.
The Laugh Doctor
The Natural Medicine of Humor
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