The Gift of Gravitas

Christmas is coming and I’m astounded at how brilliant some people are at choosing fabulous presents. My great friends Kaz and Dale give me gifts I never even thought I needed and are overwhelmingly perfect. It’s an art and unfortunately, I didn’t get that brain part. In fact, if you are anything like me you are out getting the bottle of wine for people who don’t even drink.

This week leading up to Christmas has been a cracker. Some who have seen my social posts can’t even follow where I’m up to any more.: Brisbane, Byron Bay, Noosa, Sydney, Melbourne. I could not do it without three things: body and voice skills, frameworks for every situation and lastly, a sense. of humour.

Not all of these are God-given gifts. You learn them, even the humour.The body and voice skills are embedded in the body over time by knowing what you habitually have done for many years and embodying new skills that are so practised you could do them underwater.

The frameworks are tried and tested from the field of psychology and the more you are tired or stressed, the closer you need to follow them. In other words, do what your conscious mind has told you works, not what your unconscious mind tells you will protect you (but in the end destroys you)

And lastly, humour. Did you know that over our lives our sense of humour can almost disappear. According to the Global Humour Cliff, you need to wait until you are 100 to get your humour back. Personally I am not waiting that long.