Your Authentic Leadership “SHiNE Now” Moment:

A TED Talk You Don’t Want to Miss!

I write this next instalment on humour as I enjoy some R and R, for my 32nd birthday! Kidding. It’s next week. And my 32nd birthday.
But as a gift to myself, I am disconnecting from my work – work that I am extremely passionate about – and just taking the next week to focus on myself…and then I will be back next week.

Even though I am very passionate and dedicated to you, and this work, I am taking a moment to recharge. By recharging, I am able to find the humour in the every day, even in very serious situations.

So this weekend, instead of sharing the written word, I want to share with you, a video by the authors of Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life. It’s a short 15 minute TED Talk video that does an excellent job of highlighting the why, and how. The video is self explanatory.

In case you want to by-pass watching the video, here are two (of many points) that may intrigue you:

Point 1: “Where humour exists, love is not far behind.” (And that is so true.)

Point 2: And if former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, can use humour to diffuse very very tense situation and do it publicly, then so can we.

Trust me, you will never look at a piece of jewellery the same and will always wonder, if it’s sending a message!

And on that note, I wish you all a great weekend, and week ahead, and hope all of you have recharged this summer or will recharge soon.

Ps. I realized that one of my graphs from last week’s post may have not gone through. Here now is the “cliff” that the authors referred to.