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We all need some applause

A comedienne that has become one of my fast favorites is Kathleen Madigan.   I laugh out loud as she retells hilarious stories about her family. She also has a quick wit about her that she is able to summarize events and glean either the sheer absurdity or simple genius.
One example is in her stand up routine, she relates a news story about Mike Tyson.  Apparently, he paid someone nicknamed Crocodile to be a personal motivator.  In her routine, Ms Madigan jokes she would love to have someone named “Alligator” tell her after her show she was a very funny lady.
I started to think it would be nice to have a personal cheerleader, someone who would lift our spirits when we had a bad day. It also reminded me of an episode of Designing Women when someone invented a standing ovation box.
Funny enough, life has imitated art, because now there actually is a box of applause.  
With the New Year, resolutions and changes are customary. Wouldn't it be great if for New Year’s we all decided that we would be our own cheerleaders? That our thoughts would gravitate to positive when we needed that the most?


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