Using Humor

“Where Do You Work Naked?”

Mar 11th, 2010

Courtesy of Apollo Ideas

My friend and Home office expert Lisa Kanarek asks,

“Where Do You Work Naked?”

Is your home office located in a tree house, playhouse or refurbished warehouse? Do you work in a funky, functional or fabulous spare bedroom, basement or attic home office? If so, you and your home office could win the “Where Do You Work Naked?” Contest sponsored by workingnaked.net between March 15-April 15, 2010.

Whether you work from home full-time, part-time or to occupy time, the place where you work naked—without the support of the corporate workplace—could earn you these prizes:

Courtesy of Apollo Ideas

Elfa products from The Container Store ($250 value)

Fellowes PS-79Ci Cross-Cut 100% Jam Proof Shredder

Epson WorkForce 610

Library edition binders from Russell + Hazel

Home Office Solutions: Creating a Space that Works for You book by Lisa Kanarek

One-year subscription to Flexjobs

Official “I’m working naked…are you?” t-shirt

To enter:

Expose yourself: E-mail a photo of your home office to contest@workingnaked.net. We’re looking for photos of offices, not people.

Share the naked truth: In 50-words-or-less, describe your home office. We want to know why your home office is the perfect place for working naked.

The winner will be announced on April 30, 2010. For more details visit www.workingnaked.net.

Posted in: Random Brilliance.
Tagged: home office · Lisa Kanarek · naked · office

Mining Your Past by Noting the Present

Jan 18th, 2010

by DanBrantley.

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: Image by Getty Images via Daylife

The safest target for humor is always yourself, and the best material reflects your personality.

So it’s time to start digging.

I have not had much success just sitting down and looking in my past for funny stuff. I have however, nearly always been able to come up with pertinent examples of past behavior when faced with a new humorous situation.

You can’t use what you don’t remember, so today start remembering.

Write it down.

It it’s funny, write it down.

If it strikes you as odd, write it down.

If it doesn’t make sense, write it down.

All of these notes become a foundation for future material. The idea that a major comic just riffs on their childhood is crazy. A good routine, with an absolutely natural delivery, that sounds like it’s the first time it came to mind, may take months to put together.

So start a journal, or notes on your iPhone, Blackberry, or computer. As you note present day events and thoughts, related thoughts will start to appear. Maybe not right away, maybe not for every item, and not all the time, but the thoughts will come.

So write them down.

We’ll cover what to do with all this stuff in a later post.

Meanwhile, comments are open, and if you want a unique speaker or MC for your next event… contact me! There are still good dates open for 2010. (2011 is still pretty much wide-open too. And 2012 may mark the end of the world, but I can still take your deposit.)