2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by the Author!!"I'm always reminding people that the one constant you can count on is that things happen--and usually when you're not in the mood for them."It's now a proven medical fact that good humor reduces the negative effects of stress. Over the course of twenty years, millions of people have learned this lesson while being entertained and enlightened by Loretta LaRoche in one of her enormously popular series of lectures given in public seminars; in corporate environments for clients like IBM, Reebok, Fidel-ity Investments, and Blue Cross, Blue Shield; and most recently in nationwide broadcasts on public television. Now she puts her sensible, sensational philosophy on paper--and gives readers the tools they need to laugh themselves to less stress and better health."One night I greeted Bob at the door wearing nothing but his wing-tipped shoes. I was laughing hysterically about how I looked. Bob didn't crack a smile. Instead, he bellowed, 'What are the neighbors going to think?'" 'I don't know,' I replied, 'I haven't shown them yet.' "Loretta LaRoche has been called "the Erma Bombeck of stress reduction"--and in the helpful and hilarious pages of this book, her enormous talent for finding the funny detail to defuse even the most difficult situation has never been sharper."Buy something silly and wear it. A Groucho Marx nose, mustache, and glasses are my favorite. When the stress seems unbearable, when you've really reached the limits of your endurance, go into a bathroom, look into the mirror, put on your glasses, and ask yourself, 'How serious is this?' "        Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left is filled with practical exercises, hilarious anecdotes, and specific advice for coming to terms with today's ever-increasing stress levels--it is a remedy for anxiety and a prescription for laughter."Most of us don't realize what an impact we have on the world around us. A positive energy field is going to affect others in a beneficial way, even if you don't notice it at first. Why not ask for a standing ovation once in a while? When you go in to work, say, 'I came in--it wasn't easy. I could have gone somewhere else. I'd like a standing ovation.' "In sections like "If You Don't Have to Suffer--Don't Practice," "My Mother the CEO," and "I'm Not Afraid of Heights, Just Widths," LaRoche dismantles our American predilection for taking ourselves too seriously and shows us how to live longer, happier lives using the healing power of the absurd.

Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work

Humor & Entertainment

LaRoche, Loretta

Humor

Random House Audio |

"I'm always reminding people that the one constant you can count on is that things happen--and usually when you're not in the mood for them." It's now a proven medical fact that good humor reduces the negative effects of stress. Over the course of twenty years, millions of people have learned this lesson while being entertained and enlightened by Loretta LaRoche in one of her enormously popular series of lectures given in public seminars; in corporate environments for clients like IBM, Reebok, Fidel-ity Investments, and Blue Cross, Blue Shield; and most recently in nationwide broadcasts on public television. Now she puts her sensible, sensational philosophy on paper--and gives readers the tools they need to laugh themselves to less stress and better health. "One night I greeted Bob at the door wearing nothing but his wing-tipped shoes. I was laughing hysterically about how I looked. Bob didn't crack a smile. Instead, he bellowed, 'What are the neighbors going to think?' " 'I don't know,' I replied, 'I haven't shown them yet.' " Loretta LaRoche has been called "the Erma Bombeck of stress reduction"--and in the helpful and hilarious pages of this book, her enormous talent for finding the funny detail to defuse even the most difficult situation has never been sharper. "Buy something silly and wear it. A Groucho Marx nose, mustache, and glasses are my favorite. When the stress seems unbearable, when you've really reached the limits of your endurance, go into a bathroom, look into the mirror, put on your glasses, and ask yourself, 'How serious is this?' " Relax--You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left is filled with practical exercises, hilarious anecdotes, and specific advice for coming to terms with today's ever-increasing stress levels--it is a remedy for anxiety and a prescription for laughter. "Most of us don't realize what an impact we have on the world around us. A positive energy field is going to affect others in a beneficial way, even if you don't notice it at first. Why not ask for a standing ovation once in a while? When you go in to work, say, 'I came in--it wasn't easy. I could have gone somewhere else. I'd like a standing ovation.' " In sections like "If You Don't Have to Suffer--Don't Practice," "My Mother the CEO," and "I'm Not Afraid of Heights, Just Widths," LaRoche dismantles our American predilection for taking ourselves too seriously and shows us how to live longer, happier lives using the healing power of the absurd.

Relax - You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: Using the power of humor to overcome stress in your life and work

Business & Money

Villard

Four cassettes, 6 hrs.read by the authorYou lead a busy life. Work, home, family, friends — busy, busy, busy. At work, you have a computer, a telephone with several lines, email, a fax machine, conference calls, colleagues who need you, and an assistant. Your computer contains everything important to your job, which would be great if you knew how to use it. You let your assistant handle the telephone and the fax, and if you are having a really good day, things with colleagues aren't too crazy and you get to your email before dark. Riding home on the train, you work on your laptop (when it feels like it), attempt remote email in vain at least three times, and scowl at the other passengers gabbing on their cell phones at top volume until yours goes off and you almost knock your laptop onto the floor trying to get it in time. At home there are spouses and children to deal with, more phones, more computers, more time saving devices that never seem to work. You turn to instant gratification sources like television for a moment of peace — but not more,because you don't have the time. Your one minute of true quiet, when you lie down in bed, is filled with thoughts of what you have to do, whose problems you have to fix, places you have to be and is gone almost immediately because you are too tired and overloaded not to shut down. Somehow the time saving devices that dictate our days combined with the 9 million things we have to get done right away, and the places we have to be, and the people we have to squeeze in somewhere, to create a state total and absolute hysteria most of us learn to live with, until on day we just can't take it anymore!Think of your grandparents' generation. Life was simpler, yes, but life was also saner. That generation had a way of seeing through the nonsense — of using their own inner wisdom and common sense to guide them on their way. Your grandmother never had to call home from the grocery store to let everyone know she got the bread.Life IS stressful. Bad things happen. No one wants you to walk around happy, happy, happy all the time. People like that are imbeciles. The key is to learn what matters and what doesn't. LIFE IS NOT A STRESS REHEARSAL is here to help you separate the noise around you from the clarity within you. It's here to help you stop creating stress for yourself by taking all that stuff outside you and making it internal. It's here to help you hear the voice of your grandmother, who would listen to some of the stuff you obsess about today, shake her head in dismay, whack you upside the head and say JUST SHUT UP!

Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Lifestyle into Today's Insane World

For most of us, life has become such a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations, information overload, relentless marketing, and workaholism that we spend our days stressed out over being stressed out. Guided by the timeless wisdom of her grandmother Francesca, renowned stress coach and humorist Loretta LaRoche makes us see the wisdom of a more civilized time, when no one carried a cell phone during a peaceful walk on the beach. Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal takes an honest and hilarious look at the gizmos, self-help regimens, talking heads, comfort products, nutrition plans, and sexual freedoms that we have all come to believe will make our lives better. She shows us that in many ways, they're filling our lives with more stress and insanity and keeping us isolated from the thing that matters most in any healthy life: real human connection. When you spend time with children or family, does it feel like you're wasting time that could be spent working? Do you spend more time preparing for the gym than exercising? Do you read about sex, but never go on dates? Do you carry a beeper or cell phone wherever you go even though you’re not a trauma surgeon? Then Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal is the book for you. With Loretta LaRoche’s signature mix of lighthearted insight and cutting-edge research, it will teach you how to take a step back and see the insanity for what it really is, take lessons from the way life used to be, and find your way to becoming a calmer, saner person. Among the topics Loretta discusses are: *Just Have Some Lasagna and Shut Up!: On Living Without Guilt*A Three-Dollar Bottle of Water!: On Consumerism and Common Sense*Edgar Allan Poe in Analysis: On Individuality and Our Culture of Self-Improvement. *Why Watch People Talk When You Can Talk to People?: On Turning to Mass Media for Connection With Loretta's contemporary wit and a hearty dose of Francesca's old-world wisdom, Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal is a breath of fresh air for everyone who's suffocating in our techno-crazed, germ-phobic, "go-go-go" world. By teaching you to slow down, smell the roses, and even laugh at yourself again, Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal will allow you to take a step back from the lunacy that your life has become. It will remind you of a simpler, saner time, when what matters and what doesn't was a little easier to see, and lets you separate the noise that surrounds you from the wisdom within.

Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom Into Today's Insane World

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Crown/Archetype

Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom into Today's Insane World

For most of us, life has become such a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations, information overload, relentless marketing, and workaholism that we spend our days stressed out over being stressed out. Guided by the timeless wisdom of her grandmother Francesca, renowned stress coach and humorist Loretta LaRoche makes us see the wisdom of a more civilized time, when no one carried a cell phone during a peaceful walk on the beach. In Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal, Loretta takes an honest and hilarious look at the gizmos, self-help regimens, talking heads, comfort products, nutrition plans, and sexual freedoms that we have all come to believe will make our lives better. She shows us that in many ways, they’re filling our lives with more stress and insanity and keeping us isolated from the thing that matters most in any healthy life: real human connection. With Loretta’s contemporary wit and a hearty dose of Francesca's old-world wisdom, Life Is Not a Stress Rehearsal is a breath of fresh air for everyone who's suffocating in our techno-crazed, germ-phobic, "go-go-go" world.

Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom Into Today's Insane World

Broadway

Loretta LaRoche, star of the lecture circuit and two recent PBS specials--who declares that her mission is to "stop global whining" and to prevent "hardening of the attitude"--presents a collection of lessons, anecdotes, and exercises that are the perfect weapons for combating negative feelings. Illustrations 10-city author tour.

Relax, You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left: How to Use the Power of Humour to Defeat Stress in Your Life and Work

Rothstein, Lawrence

Hyperion Books

Loretta La Roche has helped millions of people find ways to lighten up and overcome stress. Now, in Life Is Short—Wear Your Party Pants, she gives you the tools you need to not only reduce feelings of tension, but also to bring joy, passion, and gusto into your life. Her techniques are a brilliant blend of old-world common sense and the most contemporary research in brain chemistry, psychology, and mind-body studies. Loretta gives you dozens of proven techniques for recognizing the ten simple truths that will lead you to an intense, happy, successful life: resilience, living in the moment, optimism, acceptance, humor, creativity, moderation, responsibility, meaning, and connection. Loretta’s wisdom evolved from her own life—one filled with the demands of being a single mother of three; of starting her own business when she was broke; and of the wacky invasiveness of her Italian family. She’s like all of us: real, flawed, stressed out, and on edge. Her magic comes from an ability to not take herself too seriously, and to always shift her focus away from the self-destructive and toward the truly important things in life. In her work, Loretta has seen tens of thousands of people who live their lives as if they’re sitting in a waiting room, hoping that their turn comes up next. This book will show you that life is not something to be endured, but is something to be truly appreciated. We need to remember how to access our inner abundance, which allows us to be heart-centered, joy-filled human beings. As Loretta says: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift—that’s why they call it the present.”

Life Is Short-Wear Your Party Pants: Ten Simple Truths That Lead to an Amazing Life

Self-Help

Self-Esteem

Hay House, Inc.

Loretta La Roche has helped millions of people find ways to lighten up and overcome stress. Now, in Life Is Short—Wear Your Party Pants, she gives you the tools you need to not only reduce feelings of tension, but also to bring joy, passion, and gusto into your life. Her techniques are a brilliant blend of old-world common sense and the most contemporary research in brain chemistry, psychology, and mind-body studies. Loretta gives you dozens of proven techniques for recognizing the ten simple truths that will lead you to an intense, happy, successful life: resilience, living in the moment, optimism, acceptance, humor, creativity, moderation, responsibility, meaning, and connection. Loretta’s wisdom evolved from her own life—one filled with the demands of being a single mother of three; of starting her own business when she was broke; and of the wacky invasiveness of her Italian family. She’s like all of us: real, flawed, stressed out, and on edge. Her magic comes from an ability to not take herself too seriously, and to always shift her focus away from the self-destructive and toward the truly important things in life. In her work, Loretta has seen tens of thousands of people who live their lives as if they’re sitting in a waiting room, hoping that their turn comes up next. This book will show you that life is not something to be endured, but is something to be truly appreciated. We need to remember how to access our inner abundance, which allows us to be heart-centered, joy-filled human beings. As Loretta says: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift—that’s why they call it the present."

Life Is Short, Wear Your Party Pants

Personal Transformation

Hay House LLC

The Best of Loretta Laroche: As Seen on Public Television

Motivational

Hay House Audio

On this four-CD set, Loretta LaRoche, the "Master of Mirth" herself, takes you on a hysterical journey from stressed to blessed—reminding you what it’s like to be alive, connected with others, and savoring the present moment. Using amusing anecdotes from her own life, as well as the latest research in the fields of psychology and mind-body health, Loretta unveils simple techniques for living a life filled with laughter, compassion, and delight; parenting with a sense of humor; surviving stress in the workplace; and really celebrating each waking moment. In her work, Loretta has seen tens of thousands of people who live their lives as if they’re sitting in a waiting room, hoping that their turn comes up next. But she emphasizes that each person has incredible potential, and that all you have to do to access yours is to take action!

The Best of Loretta LaRoche

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