When did you last have a good laugh? A belly laugh? A fall off your chair laughing laugh?
This last weekend our house was ringing with the sound of laughter because 2 of our granddaughters came to stay.
They treat the world as a laughter lab and find fun in everything.
It is often said that children laugh around 400 times a day, while adults typically laugh around 15 – 20 times.
And so, let me introduce you to something I have just discovered – The 75 Laugh Challenge – Not a brand. Not a programme. Just a dare.
Inspired by Kenneth Thomas as the antidote to the 75 Hard Programme. The goal is simple. Laugh at yourself (or at life) for 75 days. That’s it!
And just like my granddaughters, you find something to laugh at. You laugh at the mess you just made in the kitchen. At how you just tripped up the kerb. When you drop your phone down the loo or your ice cream on the pavement!
As Kenneth Thomas says, “Day 1 starts when you stop trying to be someone else”.
It’s the journey from the burnout of discipline to becoming real and rediscovering self-respect instead of veering towards self-hate because you didn’t make the grade.
Want to try it?
The 75 Laugh Challenge. No apps. No spreadsheets. No guilt. Just one rule: Find one reason a day to laugh—especially when life gives you none. That’s the challenge. Not to be harder. Not to be softer. But to be real. And to let the medicine of laughter remind you: You were never broken. Just tired.
– Kenneth Thomas –
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –