7 Habits of highly cheerful people

• Collect cartoons and jokes you enjoy from newspapers, magazines, etc. Share these with your friends, colleagues, and family.
• Be more playful. Try being dramatic, silly, improvisational. Others pick up your spirit and laughter.
• Carry some humor with you in your wallet or purse and share it.
• Hang out with people who laugh and find joy in their life.
• Give silly and ridiculous gifts and cards. Shop garage sales.
• Look for humor... and it will find you!
• Laugh... at yourself!

Lila Green is a popular, nationally known speaker, writer and consultant on the topic of humor in health care and life. She is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a national seminar leader for the American College of Health Care Administrators, and has presented programs for the American Association of Homes for Aging.