Life is Short - Wear Your Party Pants

Have you lost your party pants?

Eight Reasons We Can’t Lighten Up

1. We’re too busy. Let’s face it - will we ever not be busy?
2. We’re afraid of what they may say. I don’t know who they are, but they sure stop the laughter for a lot of people.
3. The committee is meeting. many of us are filled with inner critics who want us to be terminally serious adults.
4. We need to be right. It’s hard to laugh if we’re always proving a point.
5. We have a tendency to judge and criticize. (This comes up a lot, doesn’t it?)
6. We’ve got too many rules and regulations. When we behave like drill sergeants and life is a forced march, it becomes difficult to chuckle.
7. We need to suffer before, during, and after anything stressful.
8. We’ve got too much ego. when we’re overinflated, we can’t laugh because we’re afraid we’ll lose our sense of importance.

~ Loretta LaRoche ~

Have you found your party pants yet?

Loretta La Roche has helped millions of people find ways to lighten up and overcome stress. Now, in Life Is Short—Wear Your Party Pants, she gives you the tools you need to not only reduce feelings of tension, but also to bring joy, passion, and gusto into your life. Her techniques are a brilliant blend of old-world common sense and the most contemporary research in brain chemistry, psychology, and mind-body studies. Taken from the Loretta LaRoche website.

Take a peek at what Loretta LaRoche says are the ‘ten simple truths that lead to an amazing life’:

1. An amazing life requires resilience.
2. An amazing life requires living in the moment.
3. An amazing life requires optimism.
4. An amazing life requires acceptance.
5. An amazing life requires humor.
6. An amazing life requires creativity.
7. An amazing life requires moderation.
8. An amazing life requires responsibility.
9. An amazing life requires connection.

Want to come with me to buy some new party pants?

In the next few weeks I hope to give my own spin to Loretta’s ‘ten simple truths’. I hope you join me.

This post is second in the series “Books That Inspire” . A series of posts about the books which have helped me find ‘good mental health’ when I feel as though I don’t want to put my party pants on.

Don’t forget, if there is a question that you would like to have answered or a topic you would like to have discussed, be sure to email me at dbeverlyhills@gmail.com. All questions will remain anonymous. All answers will be sprinkled with my perspective.