- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Pfeifer-Hamilton Publications (July 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1570251193
- ISBN-13: 978-1570251191
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.3 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,380,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Life is a comedy and all the world's a stage.
Everyone knows that laughing is more fun than, say, an enema. The problem is, laughter is most vital to us when things aren't funny -- when the deadlines are piling up, the dog has eaten your Visa card, or you're in the middle of another argument with your teenager about big pants. Finding humor when life seems tragic (or at least dramatic) may be the best thing you can do for your heath and stress management. I know. I'm the Queen of Stress. My life was so stressful for the first 32 years, I barely cracked a smile. I wasn't voted class clown in high school. I was voted most likely to depress people. My idols were Sylvia Plath and Edgar Alan Poe. But then I grew up and got funny. And it saved my life. And my sanity. My book, Don't Get Mad, Get Funny, is based on a workshop I've been giving all over the country for eight years. It's full of easy, hands-on approaches for adding humor to your stressful life. For example, making funny friends instead of life-o-suctors (people who suck the life out of you, but you knew that, didn't you?) And wearing an animal snout in traffic to distract you and everyone else from road rage. My personal favorite part of the book is the section on rewriting your autobiography with humor. It's a great way to get rid of some of the garbage from your past and replace it with something funny. I've been teaching this technique in 10-week classes that use comedy writing for cheap therapy and have seen many people emerge from pasts that were haunting them. My students have looked at all the traumas from their past -- alcoholic parents, abusive siblings, relationship failures, fears, even rape -- and created their own funny revision of their personal history. My goal in writing Don't Get Mad, Get Funny was to help people. Not just already funny people, but humor-impaired, constipated people. They're the ones that need it the most. I know, I was one. So, if you want to grow up and get funny, here's your chance.
Everyone knows that laughing is more fun than, say, an enema. The problem is, laughter is most vital to us when things aren't funny -- when the deadlines are piling up, the dog has eaten your Visa card, or you're in the middle of another argument with your teenager about big pants. Finding humor when life seems tragic (or at least dramatic) may be the best thing you can do for your heath and stress management. I know. I'm the Queen of Stress. My life was so stressful for the first 32 years, I barely cracked a smile. I wasn't voted class clown in high school. I was voted most likely to depress people. My idols were Sylvia Plath and Edgar Alan Poe. But then I grew up and got funny. And it saved my life. And my sanity. My book, Don't Get Mad, Get Funny, is based on a workshop I've been giving all over the country for eight years. It's full of easy, hands-on approaches for adding humor to your stressful life. For example, making funny friends instead of life-o-suctors (people who suck the life out of you, but you knew that, didn't you?) And wearing an animal snout in traffic to distract you and everyone else from road rage. My personal favorite part of the book is the section on rewriting your autobiography with humor. It's a great way to get rid of some of the garbage from your past and replace it with something funny. I've been teaching this technique in 10-week classes that use comedy writing for cheap therapy and have seen many people emerge from pasts that were haunting them. My students have looked at all the traumas from their past -- alcoholic parents, abusive siblings, relationship failures, fears, even rape -- and created their own funny revision of their personal history. My goal in writing Don't Get Mad, Get Funny was to help people. Not just already funny people, but humor-impaired, constipated people. They're the ones that need it the most. I know, I was one. So, if you want to grow up and get funny, here's your chance.
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Fun and Practical,
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This review is from: Don't Get Mad, Get Funny: A Light-Hearted Approach to Stress Management (Paperback)
As a stand-up comic and a person who uses humor in my "real-world" jobs, I found Ms. Jasheway's book to be a fun and practical approach to reducing stress in the workplace. So many people these days complain about the amount of stress in their lives but think the only things they can do to relieve it is to reduce their coffee intake and start working-out. They feel they have to listen to tapes with subliminal messages or practice yoga. Yet nothing reduces the amount of tension we are carrying around like a good laugh. Some people feel that humor has no place on the job, that it means you're goofing off and not working, and yet, as Ms. Jasheway explains, humor frees the mind and body to better do the jobs we have at hand. And unlike so many of the silly tools we are given at work in seminars or workshops, these are skills and tools that we can use anywhere to relieve stress and promote creativity. I highly recomend this book to anybody willing to lighten up a little and have more fun in their lives, both on the job and at home.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing New,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Don't Get Mad, Get Funny: A Light-Hearted Approach to Stress Management (Paperback)
This book is 116 pages with a lot of wasted space. Lots of empty pages and illustrations so not much actual information given. We all know that humor helps to reduce stress. I was looking for more practical information I guess. I mean it's O.K. but I didn't really learn anything new here. Sorry
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun and Practical,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Don't Get Mad, Get Funny: A Light-Hearted Approach to Stress Management (Paperback)
As a stand-up comic and a person who uses humor in my "real-world" jobs, I found Ms. Jasheway's book to be a fun and practical approach to reducing stress in the workplace. So many people these days complain about the amount of stress in their lives but think the only things they can do to relieve it is to reduce their coffee intake and start working-out. They feel they have to listen to tapes with subliminal messages or practice yoga. Yet nothing reduces the amount of tension we are carrying around like a good laugh. Some people feel that humor has no place on the job, that it means you're goofing off and not working, and yet, as Ms. Jasheway explains, humor frees the mind and body to better do the jobs we have at hand. And unlike so many of the silly tools we are given at work in seminars or workshops, these are skills and tools that we can use anywhere to relieve stress and promote creativity. I highly recomend this book to anybody willing to lighten up a little and have more fun in their lives, both on the job and at home.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Few Laughs,
By Jim Rogers "jimsgems" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Don't Get Mad, Get Funny: A Light-Hearted Approach to Stress Management (Paperback)
I expected a book of laughs -- and there were a few. It is a book for those who are really stressed out. I'm not.
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