{"id":72,"date":"2009-11-06T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-04-03T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:00:55","slug":"can-you-laugh-at-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/can-you-laugh-at-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Laugh at Yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most confident people are able to laugh.<br \/>\nThey laugh under stress, they laugh at jokes, even if they are not particularly funny (<em>out of respect for the joke-teller &#8211; as long as they are not disrespectful jokes),<\/em> they laugh at themselves when things go wrong or when &#8216;Murphy&#8217;s Law&#8217; takes over their life for a moment, and they laugh at insults.<br \/>\nDo your best at work and in life, but don&#8217;t sweat the small stuff. And don&#8217;t let anyone put you in a bad mood just because they can&#8217;t control their own life, mood swings, anger issues, jealousy, workload&#8230;the list goes on. Help them if you can, but do not let others walk over you. No doormat here!<\/p>\n<p>Laugh my friends. You don&#8217;t need stress and anger inside you. I leave you with one of my favourite odd-but-true quotes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When the vultures start circling, the thought of how silly they look will put things in a truer perspective.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; David Carradine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most confident people are able to laugh. They laugh under stress, they laugh at jokes, even if they are not particularly funny (out of respect for the joke-teller &#8211; as long as they are not disrespectful jokes), they laugh at themselves when things go wrong or when &#8216;Murphy&#8217;s Law&#8217; takes over their life for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[538,533],"tags":[686,687],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confidence","category-interpersonal-communications","tag-humour","tag-stress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}