The RAM: Strengths and Weaknesses of being a wishful thinking Disney Pixar Poster Boy
In the world of animated movies, some characters become iconic poster boys for their respective studios. Disney Pixar, known for creating beloved characters like Woody from "Toy Story" and Nemo from "Finding Nemo," has a knack for crafting endearing and memorable personalities. But what would it be like to be the face of Disney Pixar, and specifically, a RAM (animal)? Let's explore the strengths and weaknesses of this unique role.
Strengths of Being a Disney Pixar Poster Boy:
Global Recognition: When you're the poster boy for Disney Pixar, you become a household name worldwide. Your image appears on merchandise, theme park attractions, and countless promotional materials. This level of exposure can make you an instant celebrity.
Influence and Impact: As a Disney Pixar character, you have the opportunity to inspire and entertain millions of people, young and old. Your story can touch hearts, convey valuable life lessons, and leave a lasting impact on the audience.
Creative Collaboration: Working with Disney Pixar means collaborating with some of the most talented artists, writers, and animators in the industry. You get to be a part of innovative storytelling that pushes the boundaries of animation.
Legacy: Disney Pixar characters often enjoy a timeless legacy, staying relevant and beloved for generations. Your character could become a symbol of joy and nostalgia for people around the world.
Weaknesses of Being a Disney Pixar Poster Boy:
Loss of Privacy: Being in the spotlight 24/7 can be overwhelming. You might find it challenging to maintain a private life, and every move you make will be scrutinized by the public.
Typecasting: As the poster boy of Disney Pixar, you may be associated with a particular character type, making it difficult to break away from that image and explore different roles.
Pressure to Perform: The expectations for Disney Pixar characters are high, and fans have high hopes for your character's every appearance. This pressure to consistently deliver can be stressful.
Limited Control: You don't have control over how your character is used or portrayed in various media, merchandise, or adaptations. This lack of control can be frustrating at times.
Being a Disney Pixar poster boy, even as a RAM (animal), comes with its own set of strengths and weaknesses. While it offers global recognition, creative collaboration, and a lasting legacy, it also entails a loss of privacy, potential typecasting, performance pressure, and limited control over your character's fate. Ultimately, it's a unique role that comes with its own set of challenges and rewards, and it's up to the individual to decide if they're up for the task of being the face of Disney Pixar.
Harnessing the Power of Laughter: A Laughter Coach's Guide to Stress Management
Introduction
In the world of social media, where the pace is relentless and the pressure is unending, stress is a constant companion for many professionals. But what if I told you that there's a unique way to combat stress, and it involves something as simple and joyful as laughter? As a seasoned Laughter Coach, I'm here to share my expertise on managing stress through laughter, a powerful tool that can transform your social media journey.
Laugh YOuR Stress Out!
Elevate Your Mood Today!
The Best Method to Manage Stress at Work
The best method to manage stress at work as a Laughter Coach is to infuse your daily routine with laughter exercises and mindful playfulness. Laughter, after all, is nature's stress reliever.
Handling Stress at Work: Real-Life Examples
In my experience, I've seen remarkable transformations when individuals embrace laughter as a stress management tool. Examples include laughter yoga sessions, playful team-building activities, and humor-infused content creation.
Three Tips for Relieving Stress at Work
a. Laughter breaks: Incorporate short laughter breaks into your workday. Share a funny meme or joke with colleagues to lighten the mood.
b. Laughter yoga: Join a laughter yoga class or incorporate laughter yoga exercises into your daily routine to release stress.
c. Positive humor: Infuse your work with humor and positivity. Create lighthearted and relatable content that resonates with your audience.
Five Stress Management Strategies
a. Laughter as medicine: Incorporate laughter therapy into your daily routine to reduce stress hormones and increase endorphins.
b. Mindful laughter: Practice mindfulness with laughter by focusing on the joy of the moment rather than worrying about the future.
c. Laughter support groups: Connect with like-minded individuals who understand the healing power of laughter.
d. Creative expression: Use laughter as a creative outlet to share joy and positivity with your social media followers.
e. Gratitude and laughter: Cultivate gratitude in your life, and combine it with laughter to enhance your overall well-being.
The 4 A's of Stress Management
Incorporate the 4 A's into your laughter-infused stress management:
Avoid unnecessary stress by finding humor in challenging situations.
Alter your perspective by using humor as a coping mechanism.
Adapt to stress by embracing a playful attitude.
Accept that laughter is a valuable tool for managing stress.
The Four C's of Stress Management
Connect through laughter
Contribute positivity to your social media community
Cope with stress using laughter therapy
Celebrate the joy of laughter in your life.
Effective Ways to Manage Stress
Effective stress management involves laughter therapy, maintaining a playful mindset, and spreading laughter to those around you.
Ten Ways to Manage Stress
Here are ten ways to manage stress as a Laughter Coach:
Laugh daily and encourage others to join in.
Share funny and uplifting content on social media.
Create laughter-filled team-building activities.
Embrace laughter yoga and mindfulness practices.
Lead laughter therapy sessions.
Infuse humor into your work and daily life.
Connect with laughter enthusiasts and form support groups.
Practice gratitude alongside laughter.
Focus on the positive impact of laughter on your well-being.
Celebrate the joy of laughter daily.
Understanding Stress Management
Laughter is a powerful stress management tool that promotes overall well-being and positivity in your life.
Four Strategies for Managing Stress
Laughter,
Humor,
Positivity
Mindfulness
How to Stop Stressing
To stop stressing, shift your focus from worries to laughter, embrace a playful mindset, and engage in laughter therapy.
How Can You Avoid Stress?
Avoid stress by finding humor in challenging situations, using laughter as a coping mechanism, and fostering a positive attitude.
Calming Yourself Down
To calm yourself down, engage in laughter exercises, practice mindfulness, and share laughter with others.
Reducing Stress and Anxiety Naturally
Reduce stress and anxiety naturally through laughter therapy, gratitude practices, and a playful approach to life.
Signs of Stress
Recognize signs of stress, such as tension, irritability, and fatigue, and use laughter as a remedy.
Warning Signs of Stress
Warning signs of chronic stress may include sleep disturbances, emotional fluctuations, and physical ailments. Laughter can help alleviate these symptoms.
Why Do I Get Stressed So Easily?
Individuals prone to stress can benefit greatly from laughter therapy, as it provides a natural outlet for stress relief.
When Stress Gets Too Much
When stress becomes overwhelming, laughter can serve as a lifeline, offering a positive and effective means of stress management.
Conclusion
As a Laughter Coach, I've witnessed the remarkable power of laughter in transforming lives and alleviating stress. In the world of social media, where pressure runs high, laughter can be your secret weapon for navigating the digital landscape with joy and resilience. By embracing laughter, you not only manage stress effectively but also spread positivity to your online community, making the social media journey a more enjoyable and fulfilling one. Laughter truly is the best medicine for the digital age, and as a Laughter Coach, I'm here to help you unlock its potential.
From a Tragic to Resilient Mindset
Do you face challenges at work or in life that derail you from achieving the goals you initially set out to accomplish?
Some of the overwhelming problems could be: tight deadlines or being embarrassed in a meeting by the boss or being excluded from a project team. Do you at times feel like being trapped in a revolving door that you just can't seem to find the exit?
Slow down, relax and reflect. I believe that every one of us has a purpose to achieve something great in life.Everything we experience at work or life happens for a reason. We can learn a lesson from everything.
Some of my self-sabotaging self-talk :
The unfriendly experience of getting into an elevator and greeting a neighbor who ignored you.
Holding the elevator door for a person who does not appreciate you.
Being penalized by time just because someone hazardously cuts into your lane abruptly causing you to slow down.
Stuck in an underground parking area unable to find a parking space.
Here is an interesting thought...the neighbor that ignored you has moved on. I am still holding on to the tragic mindset. What could I do to free myself from the prison of suffering?
Let’s examine the 5 H framework as a guide to move from a tragic to resilient mindset.
Happen
The first step is to examine what are some challenging experiences or painful moments that we avoid, ignore or sweep under the carpet. Take a closer look into every situation and circumstances that cause pain and give us a tragic mindset.
Ask uncomfortable, thought provoking questions. Dive deeper and find out the root cause of the challenge. Once we have established the data pain points, move to the next stage.
Hurt
Acknowledge that we are not machines and we are capable of storing and feeling physical, mental and emotional pain. Be mindful and sensitive about our needs. Take time to recover. Give ample space to breathe. Laugh as laughter is a powerful resource to break state and change patterns so that we overcome challenges and obstacles.
Move away from the path of feeling hopelessness, helplessness and worthlessness. Believe that every experience whether pain or pleasure will make us stronger.What can be learn from the experience?
Re-evaluate and identify the real reason why we feel the pain. Take time to relax and find out any missing information that could help us look at things in a positive light and to laugh at the problems.
Laughter is a powerful tool to distract, release the tension and break the pattern of our current undesirable state.
Humour
At the next stage, we must have the courage to reframe the situation. Reframe and give each experience that we face some new meaning.
When I was young I was disturbed and bullied a lot. Some would say, “Hey FAT boy” and I would cry my way home feeling hurt. Everything changed when my dad shifted my perspective by saying “People can see you easily” and that I am; “Fun, Authentic and Talented”.
I moved away from a tragic mindset to a more comedic mindset - I had the ability to elevate my mood. My personal space was a happier space. I could further change the posture, word pattern, perspective and change my state.
Thus we have to learn to look at the bright-side of a situation. Cultivate the ability to make a joke out of it and to lighten the situation. Learn to laugh at our challenges, trials and tribulations. Poke more fun into the situation to allow us to release the tension. Allow the joy to shine back into the path of alignment and progress. Practice and cultivate a happier, healthier and sustainable culture that allows a shift in perspective.
Heal
The next stage is to allow the patch up work to take place. A scare is a hurtful reminder. If we shift our perspective, we give new meaning to the word scare and re-label it as S-Care – Systematic Care. A scab is a protective tissue covering that forms after your skin has been damaged.
Make a habit think positive, hang around happy positive people and apply the tools and techniques of reframing in our daily routine. Allow the body to rest and recover overtime.
Let’s put into practice the new behavioral changes. Engage in conversations that motivate and encourage your team mates. Build relationship and trust with friends and family that support you during tough times.Affirm all the right and great practices.
We can learn to nurture self-care and self-lead ourselves.
Happiness
The final stage is to Laugh and Win together. Empower others.Share the technique we learn and find ways to help others. Strive to be in an optimal state of being engage and motivated. Maintain a positive space.Look forward to possibilities. Set for yourself higher standards and achieve greater positive results
Harvest the seed of happiness and cruise in the freeway of happiness together with your team. Open up conversations and dialogues that are progressive. Remind each other of greater times ahead. Push the team forward and engage in happiness as a team for a better work life balance experience.
Believe that every one of us has the potential of becoming a better version of ourselves and to constant remember that we have special gifts. We have to accept failure as life’s learning lessons and to move forward. We have to be engage and igniting the spark of passion in what they do.
The power of laughter will motivate and encourage us and we can move forward in adversity. We can set greater standards and being able to push them out of the comfort zone.
We can exceed our personal best if we can invest more time in our focus of moving forward and spend less time on looking back. Let’s bounce back from our setbacks.
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Stress Management
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A to Z in the pursuit of Happiness
A to Z in the pursuit of Happiness by Santhanaram Jayaram
Avoid Negative & Respond Positively - As you get into the habit of ignoring the negative, you will have more time to focus on the positive.
Breaking Old Habits by Forming New Habits - Rather than focus on breaking “old” or “bad” habits, one should put more energy into creating new habits and practices that are beneficial as well as nourishing.
Choose friends wisely - If one wishes to be truly happy, it is best to choose to associate yourself with those that encourage and support you.
Dare to Dream - Live the Life That You Want. Keep the motivation to live your dream by focusing on the positives in your life.
Enthusiasm is Vital - By being passionate, grateful, positive, proud, creative, proactive, reasonable, patient, enlightened, and evolving, you will be able to accumulate an incredible amount of enthusiasm in your personal life.
Family and Friends are forever - Be grateful to those that have helped you get to where you are today as well as who you have become.
Giving and Receiving - There is always a time to give and a time to receive. While giving to those that we care about is a way of expressing our feelings towards them, it is also highly important to honor one's own needs and desires as well.
Happiness within us - By accepting who you are as well as letting go of your expectations, inner struggles and frustrations, you will be well on your way to finding personal happiness and inner peace.
Inspire Yourself & Inspire Others to Be Their Best - By being true to yourself, sticking with what you love, expressing your enthusiasm, and excelling at what you do best, you will find yourself surrounded by those you influence.
Just do it - Accomplish What You First Set Out To Do. Set small goals for yourself and take one step at a time.
Keep on moving - Get It Together & Never Give Up. One of the most important skills that an individual can have is perseverance.
Love Yourself and Be Loved in Return - Celebrate your past, indulge in your desires, let go of your mistakes, and embrace your future.
Make Things Happen for Yourself - You are responsible for what happens in your life and it is up to you to take the first step.
No to procrastination - Stop Thinking. Start Doing. Important to plan accordingly and take small steps towards completing your goal
Opportunity is Everywhere – Make Your Own Future. Recognizing an opportunity is the first step towards success.
Practice Makes Perfect - Although it may not always be an enjoyable experience, deliberate practice makes perfect.
“Quitters Never Win and Winners Never Quit” - Before you even think about quitting, you must ask yourself a few questions. Have you put enough effort and time towards completing your goal? Have you done everything possible to complete your goal? Set a goal for yourself as well as take steps in order to achieve that goal.
Reach Your Target - Time is your most precious asset when it comes to goal setting so be sure to plan accordingly; make your time frame for completing that goal realistic.
Smile From the Heart - By being in close proximity to individuals that are more positive than others, the exposure to positive energy and bright smiles will be most certainly contagious.
Take Chances to Live a Better Life - Take your chances today; go after your dream job, escape from your toxic relationships and strive for what you really desire in life!
Understand & Respect Others Around You - By being able to understand what others need, we will better understand others and work towards being at peace with one another.
Value adding - As you begin to take those steps to contribute to those around you, you will certainly notice how it makes you feel about yourself.
Willing to reach your goals - Always strive for what you want in life, fight for what you truly want and stay positive, regardless of what obstacles life may throw at you.
X-(ac)celerating in Life and Moving Forward - Driven individuals are continuously striving to do at least one key task better and by doing so, you may have a history of doing what you do very well.
You make a Positive Change Every Single Day - You have the power to control your attitude, how to behave, what to say and when to say it. Use this power to your advantage and make a difference in your life today.
Zero In & Focus on What is Most Important - Important to know when to stop and focus on what is most significant.
Are you open to Learn, Laugh and Let it go? by Santhanaram Jayaram MBA
The climate of the work environment has certainly changed over time because it used to be that you checked your humor at the door. We use to associate laughter as a bad thing and would not take anyone seriously if they laugh too much. Anyone who was caught cracking it up or laughing would most certainly have been ostracized but it is really that kind of attitude that enables one to persevere. Due to this perception, many organizations give laughter a lower priority. The danger to this could be the rise of a toxic environment. People getting overstretched with the workload and overstressed. People working in isolation and not opening up to each other. People not trusting each other and walking away with misunderstanding and ill feelings. There is hope. Learn, Laugh, and Let it go.
It is important to learn how to open up space around you and make work more fun.
1. Laughter is a wonderful remedy for managing stress
Laughter is a natural stress reliever because it releases powerful chemicals called endorphins, which literally make you feel better.
When workload is extremely heavy or challenges are great due to cutbacks, layoffs, or restructuring. When staff members are dealing with great stress due to increased workloads or impending layoffs, a joyful opportunity to laugh and share some funny news can be just the kind of “therapy” the organization needs.
Laughter at work is a wonderful thing! A little laughter can go a long way in making people more productive and friendly. When co-workers take a moment from their duties to smile or laugh together, studies have shown that it can lead to:
Fewer sick days
Increased sales and productivity
A healthier working environment
Learn, Laugh and Let it go.
Breaking for Laughter - Considering the amount of lost time companies experience because of sick or stressed out employees, companies may be better off incorporating a little laughter into the day. Perhaps we can replace the "smoke break" with the “laughter break!” It doesn't take a researcher to figure out that employees who enjoy their jobs better work more efficiently and more effectively. Organize some time during lunch to go out to an open space and stretch your happiness by laughing, sharing funny moments and even just smiling at each other.
Learn, Laugh and Let it go.
Connecting with Laughter. Laughter can help you on a personal level and on a corporate level because laughter is easy to incorporate into any company. Research shows that laughter does help increase or encourage things like hope and optimism, which can in turn help one feel better about themselves. Laughter is like a cool rain on a warm day because it clears away emotional debris that can weigh you down. The more be share the more we care. I believe that the more you encourage an open dialogue session, you could reduce misunderstanding in communication and clarify for better understanding. You will be surprised that when you share your current challenges, you might be able to identify similar pain points.
You could put more fun into work - If companies want to go from merely surviving to thriving, they have to be adaptable to change and they also have to learn to do more with less. Companies are always looking for to help stressed out employees and this is exactly where something like laughter therapy can come into play.
Learn, Laugh and Let it go.
Take a vacation from your seriousness - It is is like taking a vacation. Change your environment and break the pattern. It would help you to move away from the emotional serious loop to a more light hearted environment. Learning how to lighten up on the job and learning how to take yourself a little less seriously while working can help boost productivity and increase employee morale. When it comes right down to it, your sense of humor is a powerful coping mechanism.
Having a sense of humor should actually be a much coveted skill because those who have a sense of humor tend to laugh at themselves more and roll with the punches. Humor is a skill that can serve both the employee and the company well because people that have a sense of humor are also more likely to take the initiative more. Learning to laugh at yourself and your own mistakes.
Learn, Laugh and Let it go.
Bringing your sense of humor to the job will help you and everyone around you to work more effectively and more productive because laughter acts like a giant relief valve
Laughter, the giant relief valve - Laughter helps you deal with difficult projects, tight deadlines and too much work with too little time, you can make your life much more manageable. While some people may claim to thrive under pressure, it is not something that can be maintained day in and day out with no adverse effects. Laughter is a powerful tool to release the tension in your body.
Laughter has healing and restorative properties and it is an amazing tool that anyone can use.
Open your self up to possibilities
Laughter can:
Improve your mood and add joy to your life
Improve your resilience and immunity
Relieve stress and anxiety
Strengthen relationships
Promote bonding and help defuse conflict and enhance teamwork, making it a great tool for companies as well as individuals.
Boost the immune system and circulatory system
Enhance oxygen intake and stimulate the heart and lungs
Relax muscles throughout the body
Trigger the release of endorphins (the body’s natural painkillers)
Ease digestion/soothes stomach aches
Relieve pain
Balance blood pressure
Improve mental functions (i.e., alertness, memory, creativity)
In conclusion, laughter therapy helps improve one's attitude and it is a powerful mood booster. Laughter can reduce stress and ease tension and it can promote
relaxation. It helps you sleep better and enhances the quality of your life in every way. It can also help to strengthen your social bonds and your relationships as well, because it can enhance your sense of well-being.
Laughter may just be one of one the best medicine's there is. If you don't believe me, try it for yourself! Learn, Laugh and Let it go!
Manage your mood and emotions to stay productive
How to deal with people who just would not shut up?
Step 1: Quickly take on the responsibility to manage your own time, energy and effort
Step 2: Use a breathing technique to calm yourself down
Step 3: Inform him earlier that you have very little time
Step 4: Express to him that you value the friendship - you prefer a dialogue vs a monologue
Step 5: Treasure the friendship and transform every experience to make it favourable and win-win for both of you
How to avoid being disturbed mentally?
Step 1: Navigate your mind so that you have a calm state
Step 2: Observe your thoughts, words, feelings, and behaviours
Step 3: Isolate the issue that you are facing and make it easily manageable into bite-sized parts so that the problem becomes smaller
Step 4: Substitute negative thoughts and fill it with positive thoughts
Step5: Empty the trash and let it go. Drain out all that pent up frustrations and toxic negativity.
Why Laughter and Having Fun at the Work Space is Important to Productivity
Much is known about laughter and its impact on overall health. Research has long supported the idea that laughter and health are interdependent, and hospitals and nursing homes have begun to include daily and weekly focus on laughter promoting activities. Many hospitals are even offering stand-up comedians and clowns for their patients. But why is laughter important in the workplace? And how can your workspace become more effective with the simple addition of a little fun?
Laughter creates a special bonding. Recall a moment when you were in a public place where you witnessed an amusing incident. During times of unexpected amusement, people who are complete strangers will make eye contact and laugh together. Their conversations suddenly become effortless. Two strangers sharing a moment of humor and fun will demonstrate body language that looks like they have known one another their entire lives. Laughter appears to be a component of the genetic endowment handed down from generations of surviving forefathers.
The genetic endowment is like an inherited rule-book on survival that those before us have learned. These are lessons that survive from the caveman and early explorers who faced harsh survival conditions where only the strongest or most clever survived. The physical changes occurring in their brains from learning survival of the harshest conditions were then passed onto their offspring who in turn provided them to their own offspring. One such bit of genetic “gift” is our innate ability to look at snake eyes and understand if they will kill us. This is a fact no one is ever taught, it is an instinctive reaction to retreat from slatted eyes. Even children as young as two years of age have been shown to shrink away from a large photograph of a poisonous snake.
Laughter may be another aspect of the genetic endowment. There may be a rulebook similar to survival lessons except these innate rules favor socialization tactics. It is difficult to understand how so many people appear to have the same exact sense of humor as those around them. A stand-up comic will appeal to nearly everyone in the audience or conversely everyone will hate him. It is a rare thing indeed to see a comic that you believe is hilarious as others throw their nose up in the air. So how can laughter contribute to survival and be so important that it gets passed down genetically to your offspring? Benefits of humor and fun have been well-researched.
Survival of the race is the single most powerful force on the planet. Mothers instinctively kill to protect their children, and in truth they would put themselves in harm to protect the child of a stranger. Sex is a very powerful force that needs no further discussion here. The truth is the will to survive coupled with the powerful, immediate bonding of laughter would lead a thoughtful person to assume, laughter is about survival of the species. Add in what we know about the physiological and psychological benefits of humor and fun and assumptions can go further.
Hospitals provide comedy, humor and fun, especially cancer treatment centers for adults and children alike. Without a couple to raise a child, that child’s chances of survival are lowered when living in a single family home. A father traditionally would have been the hunter and the protector. If a wild beast appeared, the father would protect the genetic offspring to ensure survival of his species. The mother too is free to care more specifically for the child if the father provides food and protection. Laughter creates an immediate bond with strangers but more importantly it can establish re-bonding with committed partners. When people laugh, enjoying humor and fun together; and when they are in relationships with family and friends, they survive and that survival includes a higher quality of living.
Because laughter is so important to overall survival, could it be that laughter would help ensure the survival of your company? Through laughter and bonding, powerful work relationships would be formed and their work more effective and efficient. Bringing humor and fun into the workplace will increase productivity. When people laugh together they form a sense of trust. After all, if I believe something is funny and my friend believes the same, then he must be “normal” like I am.
How can you create laughter in the workplace? Well beyond the obvious of having clowns or comedians disrupting the office, there are other ways to do it. Lighten up on the work environment. An oppressive environment is one in which there is little room for laughter. If you set up friendly competition in the office, then the natural result will be playful laughter among competitors. If you institute lunchtime dance lines or allow workers to hum or listen to music as they work, again, laughter will result.
Efficiency and quality of work need not be sacrificed for the life sustained sensations of laughter. Through specific time frames placed upon identified objectives, playful competition can actually increase outcome. It will be important to define the parameters of play for you don’t want the office to resemble a day-care center. If the entire focus is on productivity and not vacation; then your employees will understand the changes and will surprise you by their focus.
Laughter heals and it ensures our survival. Work makes us feel important and needed, again factors related to survival. Competition and music appear to live deep inside of our souls and will naturally take on a playful quality even in the fiercest of competitions. By organizing effectively and having clearly defined goals and stated time constraints, you can fill your workplace with music, laughter, and competition and become a more effective machine for productivity in the professional office.