To achieve that balance you need to take your job seriously but yourself lightly. Having a sense of humor is not something you are born with it’s a set of developed skills that allows us to keep flexible in the face of stress and change and it really has nothing to do with telling jokes. Do you feel you have a good sense of humor? There are people in this world who go through life with a case of terminal professionalism. You know the type: If I am going to be successful I must be hard-driving hardheaded and serious. I do not have time to laugh and play around. Leave me alone. I am having a really good bad day! Those are the kinds of people who end up with a nervous breakdown end up as old bitter and cantankerous competitors of yours or end up dead. We need to enjoy the simple things in life: a newborn baby a sunny day a home run in the bottom of the ninth a great cup of coffee!