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Your sense of humor is your sense of perspective. You choose your perspective.

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For the last sixteen years, we have defined your sense of humor as your seventh sense. You may remember how we came upon this concept. It was due to my son, Chad, when he was in kindergarten. They were discussing your five senses. Chad raised his hand and asked, “What about your sixth sense?” The teacher said, “Your sixth sense?” Chad responded, “Your ability to read other peoples mind.” Then the teacher asked, “What about your seventh sense?” Chad questioned, “Your seventh sense?” The teacher responded, “Your sense of humor!”

Chad is now an Army Airborne MP in Iraq. He is in the middle of the action. He has been in intense firefights in Fallujah and surrounding areas. He has spent many a night in the bunkers as insurgents lob mortar rounds and launch rockets at their camp almost daily. It’s hard to sleep in a tent that has shrapnel holes in the canvas, especially when you know your buddy died just outside, one soldier recently stated.

Chad’s lieutenant asked me to develop a DVD for the troops. I asked Chad, “What does he want me to cover?” Chad replied, “First, how we can keep our sense of humor. Second, that spiritual stuff you talk about, and then, why, during times of war, it is okay if you have to take the enemy’s life.” Wow, what a challenge!

We define humor as your seventh sense, your perspective. The combination of all the information you process through you other six senses. It is your attitude.

With all the interesting information in the news, it's no wonder why we feel challenged. How we respond to the challenges is the bottom line.

How do runners strengthen their legs? They put weights on their feet. Today's situations will make us stronger when we choose to look at it that way. Today's challenges will make us better or bitter. We make the choice. What choices are you making today?

Allen Klein, author of Courage To Laugh, says that humor can help people cope with anything. Klein says he developed his theory of humor to cope with his wife’s terminal cancer at age 34. What is happening today with war and the economy is not funny. It is easy to get depressed or muddled up over the constant terrorism alerts. The corporate scandals can also cause cynicism. Klein says that humor always gives us perspective. A laugh is instant perspective.

Phil had the privilege to speak at the Columbus Metropolitan Club last week on the topic of, “Serious Humor for Today’s Challenges In Iraq.” This presentation was well received with the audience asking many questions and sharing comments that were captured on video. Phil will share these comments on the DVD he has been challenged to do for the 118^th Military Police.

If you have any comments or suggestions for Phil or would like to e-mail Chad or send the soldiers a Care Package, e-mail us at susan@humorconsultants.com. No matter what your political views are, we welcome your support and concerns.

One of the books I am recommending to my clients, family, and friends is “The Power of Intention,” by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. As Dr. Dyer says, intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination, propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. In this view, an attitude that combines hard work with an indefatigable drive toward excellence is the way to succeed. However, intention is viewed very differently in this book. Dr. Wayne Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. This book explores intention – not as something you do – but as energy you’re a part of. We’re all intended here through the invisible power of intention. This is the first book to look at intention as field of energy you can access to begin co-creating your life!

Let us know if you are reading a good book and would like to share it in our Reading Corner. Winners will be chosen for submitting what we feel to be the most helpful book to them. Please submit the Title of the Book, the Author, and a brief description of the book and its value to you. WINNER will receive our famous Dismem-bear. Go to www.humorconsultants.com click SHOP ONLINE

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I am sure many of you have seen Phil Sorentino use this dismem-bear in his presentations and have seen a few body parts flying through the audience. What Phil won’t do for a laugh!

3. WHY I LIKE MY HUSBAND – A Tribute

People are beginning to be sick and tired of being sick and tired. The economy, the terrorist, the government, and the shape you are in mentally, physically, and spiritually, these times are testing us.

During the 90’s, we had economic prosperity. There are thirty year olds who have never worked in tough times and the rest of us have gotten lulled into a sense of security. Well, that is over.

This is an e-zine full of opportunity to cleanse and nourish all areas of your life.

My uncle, Mel, was sick and tired of being sick and tired. He died. He was 85. It was time for him to move on.

He was one of the many of his generation that did what their nation asked them to do. He is a Four Bronze Star winner from two tours in the Pacific Theater of War. Why they call them theaters I'll never know. If you know, e-mail me.

He married my Aunt Catherine on September 18, 1943. The next day he was shipped oversees. They never had kids, so they used my brother, Andy, and me from time to time.

After the Army, he ran the laundry services for Riverside Hospital during the 50's and 60's. Next, he became a police officer in Hilliard, Ohio.

On their 30th anniversary my aunt read this tribute: Dedicated to Melvin Williams

My husband is the nicest man I know, and I like him. Why do I like him? I like him for many reasons.

For one thing, he is not a stickler for routine. We don’t have a rigid dinner hour. Dinner (or any meal for that matter) is when we are both there to eat it and when it is ready. We have no train plotter’s schedule for setting the household in motion in the morning. Most of the time, he gets to the alarm clock first. Although, there have been times when I do. Whoever it is puts on the coffee pot (and – he brings me coffee in bed when he’s the first one up!)

My husband approves of moving furniture and helps me do it. He agrees with me that a shift in the familiar outlines of a room is as good as a new coat of paint or reupholster for the morale.

I like my husband because he likes women. That may sound unbelievable, but it is my belief that a man may love his own wife and yet care little for women as a class, much preferring the company of men. Usually this limits his enjoyment of his wife as a person, no matter how captivating he may find her as a woman, and some wives are lonely because of it.

That’s why I like my husband to like women, and my husband talks to women as if they had good sense. A friend once said to me, “When I talk to your husband, he listens.” He brings out the people in women, because he believes they are – not leaving out his wife.

I like my husband because he doesn’t constantly remind me of all the trivial decisions he made without my help before he married me. He decides when his suits need cleaning or when his hair needs cutting. He isn’t feeble-minded; he’s a full-grown man, and he says it is undignified to depend on another human being for the kind of personal management needed by small children, who aren’t aware that their noses should be wiped.

I like my husband because he makes up any old date for our anniversary. He knows the exact date and so do I; but we don’t make a fuss. He says that every day he comes to love me more, and he cannot clock his emotions to go off in order just because we were married on a certain date – 30 years ago.

I like my husband because he grins. He doesn’t laugh much, not out-loud laughter; but he can coax a smile out of sulky children, weary old tramps, and even dogs. He smiles at them, and they are helpless; they have to smile back. (Psst – I’ve caught him talking and smiling with two ornery, lovable dogs and a certain ornery, lovable black cat; and I’m not too sure that they don’t talk and smile back - in their own way, of course!) His grin has sadness and joy, faith and knowing, all mixed up together in it, and when he smiles at me, I come apart at the seams.

My husband is a man who eats everything, except a couple of things, and he likes leftovers. He coaxes me to make enough chile or stew for two or three days, because he says it always tastes better on the second day. I know this, but somehow I didn’t expect him to.

My husband has also convinced me that we won’t parish of malnutrition if we eat the same thing several nights running. He says if you let a man alone, he will eat the same dish every night for a week – if he happens to like it. He’s right.

I like my husband because he takes the time to tell me how young I look even after being married to me for 30 anniversaries.

I like my husband because I have learned many things from him, including driving a car, as well as, a degree of patience. And he tells me that he has learned from me. He asks my advice on many of his business matters, and we seek advice form each other regarding our domestic life. A woman who has been convinced of her own worth doesn’t need to be convincing any more. A woman usually cannot nurse a neurosis, or feel like a household appliance, or be bored when she is busy imparting what she is and what she knows.

The inventor of monogamy knew what he was doing. It takes a lifetime really to know another human being and, maybe, even a lifetime isn’t long enough.

I like my husband because he likes and respects me; and I firmly believe that LOVE needs to be nourished with respect in order to live.

I like my husband for marrying me. And I like him; not only for what he is, but also for what I am when I am with him.

If this is the kind of man that is produced by serving in the military, think of the men that will be coming back from overseas. We hope the challenges our son Chad is facing will mold him into a man like my Uncle Mel.

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