laugh at myself

This is never really “finished” but I don’t take myself nearly as seriously as I used to, so I’m going to give myself credit for lightening up!

I couldn’t be more thrilled with this!

As my confidence increases overall, I find myself laughing at myself more and more. One thing it does is makes communication with my wife a lot easier. She feels much more free to talk about how she feels and even to laugh at her own behavior if I freely laugh about mine. Honestly, I say and do some rather ridiculous things sometimes, but I’m a lot less embarrassed by them now and that makes the laughing easier…

I remember (ooooh, about 12 years ago) reading in the book Lighten Up! that you can practice laughing at yourself by laughing at your naked reflection in the mirror every morning. You start with a forced laugh (HA HA HA HA HA), but apparently it gets real very soon. Maybe because it’s such a ridiculous thing to be doing? I, uh, never had the guts to try this before, but I’m determined to now!