Gary Woltal's Blog

With too much gloom and doom in the news about mortgage problems and real estate prices falling we need to keep our perspective. Life has its ebbs and flows. Real estate agents in counseling clients need to remind them that a market never remains the same. Don't let a dip in a cycle get you down. Laugh a little. It's not the end of the world. Adults have problems with laughter. They seem to have lost it along the way. Children laugh on the order of 300 times a day while adults have reduced that down to about twelve. We can do better. Maybe some of us have to be encouragers to those who have forgotten how.

Hence, I bring up Mr. Potato Head. How can you not assemble the child's toy and putting the ears on backwards and just not laugh? Who invented that? Don't lie. If you're old enough you had one. Other examples of laughing through a storm include a 15 year old girl who had a leg amputated. While playing soccer she kicked the ball so hard her prosthetic leg flew off. It cracked her up and she was on the ground laughing. Another story had a 17 year old young woman in the hospital for radiation treatment for cancer. She climbed up on this table and disrobed from her hospital gown. All these workers gathered around her were staring at her. She thought this was odd until learning and bursting out laughing that these were a group of painters in smocks who were in the room to do an estimate on a paint job.

So laugh through a storm. Get that Mr. Potato Head out, or borrow one from a child, wind him up and watch him hop all over your desk. You might laugh so hard you'll start crying. And in this case, crying is good for you.