Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they’ll become… habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.
On the Journey to New Habits, Take Tiny Steps by BJ Fogg, PhD; WSJ read 3 min.
If you pick the right small behavior and sequence it right, then you won’t have to motivate yourself to have it grow. It will just happen naturally, like a good seed planted in a good spot.
Today marks our sixth month learning the ins and outs of Word Press…poking and prodding the importance of playfulness for adults.
We are tickled pink when we strike a chord with a reader. To learn a posted story is useful takes us beyond personal amusement and blogging play.
Questions of course remain. From the beginning we have wondered what exactly is playfulness? Is it a learned skill, a longer term trait, or just a fun temporary state?
Credit: Nathan Bulmer
Is playfulness built into the human psyche? A way of being? And is play just an activity entered and left at will on a whim? Ultimately if play is a way of being can it be learned, turned into a habit, maintained over time, even enhanced, and if so to what end?
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To our delight Professor René Proyer recently popped onto our radar.
Professor Proyer suggests adults can train themselves to become at least temporarily more playful. Could his work lead to more stimulating debate on what Playfulness really is? That Practicing Playfulness as a habit could be a means for long-term improved well-being? A tool for changingperspectives? We certainly hope so.
We were happy to see a recent flurry of similar articles from different media outlets so we’re only sharing one below. We’re confident you can google the rest if as excited (as we are) about the habit of playfulness.
Now more than ever a global mind shift to a more playful perspective could improve upon our state of equilibrium, collective well being, and a more relaxed world view.
To learn a little more about Professor Proyer’s research click below.
Boosting Ability to Be Playful May Enhance Satisfaction With Life (Read: 2 Minutes)
A good laugh, a playful prank and other such ‘silly’ behavior once in a while doesn’t just lift your spirits and relieve stress; it can also have a positive physical impact on your health.
Credit: Krista Walton – *KW and The K-Dubs present: Gang of Rhythm* (with apologies to Walk Off The Earth for this odd cover that’s a whole step higher than their original)
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
