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Not Having Fun? You’re Doing It ALL Wrong!!
Filed under: Conscious Creation, Fun, Inspired Action, Intention, Life, happiness
I’m the Queen of Taking Inspired Action and Following My Fun n Feel Good!
But sometimes even Queens can forget to put their crowns on.
Ever gotten all gung ho about a new idea? Gotten really excited about it, thought about it day and night and joined a 4 month program that would help bring it to life?
Which is all well and good you know.
Ever been so consumed by it that it wasn’t fun anymore? Stayed up past 3am thinking, woken up late, felt overwhelmed and tired all day long? I have.
Whooaa!
Even though it’s only been a few days, it’s so not how I run my life!
Somewhere between the grand idea and today, I let my Fun Factor slide. For some reason, thinking about this new business seemed more like work than play (unlike my coaching practice – setting this up was pure fun!).
Ever taken action from a totally-uninspired-low-vibe-space even when you know better? Yep, me too.
As I explored why, it struck me that sometimes, we tend to get too serious about things that are really important to us (I call it getting “significant”). It’s as though by taking it “seriously”, we’ll appear to be more responsible or capable.
We’ve yet to embrace the concept that taking something on doesn’t mean we have to give up having fun with it! Or that we can be “serious” about fun and committed to what we want without getting all tied up in knots.
Lifetime of “work = work, play = play” messages anyone? Well, it just doesn’t work like that anymore!
If one of your values is Fun/Play (like mine), then you know that the more you lose sight of it, the harder it gets to accomplish your goals. And the more action you take, the less you end up doing. Funny how that can happen.
So it was with that Thunk! Clunk! in my brain – The downstream way is to feel good first! Do what ups your vibe, gives you energy and makes you feel good. THEN look at your to-do list and what else needs to be done.
Don’t even TOUCH or do anything till you’ve spent a few minutes connecting with what makes you happy and energetic, k? All you need is 5 minutes or less so don’t tell me you don’t have the time. Make it a priority.
(Btw, love how this is turning into a series of “what I learned from the last few days” posts!)
I’m a smart cookie. Soon’s I remembered that, I changed it around. I don’t get out of bed without a quick 5 minutes of meditation (getting out of bed and meditating felt like work, so I stay in now).
The first thing I do when I turn on the computer now? Nope, not email.
Music!
The second? Dancing to the Music.
Right here in my living room cum office cum cubbyhole apartment.
Then I call a friend or someone I’d like to connect with for a little check in/chat. Doing this yesterday was so awesome that my fun factor went through the roof! I chatted with one friend and brainstormed crazy business ideas and names with another.
Got SO energised that the rest of the day was 100 times more productive and fun than the last 2 weeks have been.
And I got to play with these concepts again:
- If I’m not having fun, I’m doing it all wrong.
- Fun starts with feeling good about what I’m doing at any given time.
- Raise your energy first before you tackle the rest of it.
- Plugging away is NOT inspiring!
Ps: As I was writing this post, I took about 2 breaks to dance to Chris Brown’s Forever and Rihanna’s Please Don’t Stop The Music. So much fun!
Let’s recap shall we?
Tia’s Top Tips for Productivity:
- Start day with quick 5 minute meditation / intention setting
- Check in with yourself every couple of hours – how are you feeling?
- If your work’s starting to drag, give yourself a 5 minute FUN break.
- Play music and dance to bring out creativity
- Or phone a friend / someone who inspires you
- Indulge in your chosen “breaktivity” and let it UP your energy level
- Then take some fantastic inspired action
- Oh and one last time – make it FUN, dude!
‘Cos when you’re floating downstream you’ll find that the EAC you were looking for, fighting your way through to find, was the very same one you were already floating in.
In case I lost you there, here’s a wee recap from Finding Nemo (watch 1st 2 minutes):
Marlin: OK, Crush. I need to get to the East Australian Current. EAC?
Crush: [laughing] Oh, dude. You’re ridin’ it, dude! Check it out!
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Where do you make “life” more serious than it needs to be? Paying bills / mortgage/ trying to make a difference in the world – how can you remind yourself to make it FUN and bring play into it? Looking forward to hearing your ideas!
These Are a Few of My Favourite Things ♬ ♬
- Picture sourced from iranian.com
To count my blessings, focus on what I want to create & list what makes me happy, I decided to get em together in one sweet place. Why alphabetically? Oh, just cos I can 
I’ll be back to add more as I think of them (bonus: will keep me focused on what I like for the next few days, yay!)
Go ahead and share yours too (alpabetically or however you want) so I can steal some of them. Hehe.. Let the favourites games begin.
- A’s about Awareness, adaptability, authenticity, almond butter, adventures
- B brings me BFFs, babies – their laughs and cuddle factor, bubble baths, blip.fm, blogging, board games
- C creates Community, creativity, coaching, cafe catch ups with friends, chocolate, colours, campfires. Also, courage, contentment and conscious creation.
- D .d.d.d Dancing! Dates with my man, DVD nights with my gfs
- ENERGY!! EQ, Epiphanies (they ROCK!)
- F starts with Fun, festivals, fall (crisp fall air!), family, facing my fears (ok, I don’t love this but I love how I feel after!), feelings, financial freedom, FREEDOM of choice
- Gelato (nutella gelatos!), glitter
- Hula hooping, happiness, huggling (a mix of hugging and cuddling), humour
- I = Inspiration, Intentions, inner peace, instant connections – the kind where you meet someone and feel like you`ve been friends forever
- Jewel (the word – I love the word Jewel!)
- Kick ass people – too many to name, karmafication
- Law of attraction, leverage, love, living, life, laughing till I snort or my sides ache (whatever comes first), Leonard Cohen
- Making up words, music, movies
- Nutella (you KNEW this was gonna be first, didn’t you!), New Zealand
- Oreosssss
- Photographs – taking and looking at, personal growth, play-fullness
- Q: Quad biking
- Responding, not reacting. Reading inspirational stuff, randomness (being random), road trips
- Scrubs (yes, the TV show), sparkly stuff, snow globes, singing out loud in the shower and around my house (also in cars), social media!
- Travel, twitter, taking risks, trampolines (jump, jump, jump!), Tribe (as in, “my people”)
- U. Yes, U 
. Unconventionality, uniqueness
- Visioning … also known as daydreaming, videos (esp high energy ones like these)
- Writing (that wasn’t obvious was it , white water rafting, world citizenship
- Xcalibur (don’t tell me to spell it with an E, shhh X was feeling lonely)
- Y? I already said – just cos! Yin n Yang, Yodanese
- Zen habits and Zillion (as in, can’t believe the zillion things I came up with)
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This wasn’t easy. It WAS real fun though Who’s next?
It’s Now Or Never, Don’t Waste Another Minute!
Filed under: Conscious Creation, Fun, Law of Attraction, Life, Passion, courage, happiness
♫♫ It’s now or never,
come hold me tight
Kiss me my darling,
be mine tonight ♫♫
♫♫ Tomorrow will be too late,
it’s now or never
My love won’t wait ♫♫
Are you one of those people who believe that beauty, abundance, opportunities and luck are all around us and would so know them if you were eyeball to eyeball with them?
Or have you been trained to expect it at certain times, hence losing out on opportunities to see them, even when in your face?
I reckon I’m a bit of both. Or at the very least, I used to be the 2nd, not noticing or appreciating the incredible amount of love, abundance and blessings in my life. And there were plenty!
But that was before I learned to look for and focus on what was right (huge shift from looking for what was wrong!). And before I learned about the Law of Attraction, conscious creation and how we create our own reality.
Before coach training taught me that curiosity and openness were assets, not liabilities (I know, right?! I can’t imagine telling someone to be closed up and uninterested in others, yet I’ve been told to do that to “protect” myself from hurt and disappointment. Ha! ha! Sweet, well meaning people .
In the past, I was always looking for the big, obvious scenarios. Defining success by those standards. You know, the ones I talked about here.
And now, I know better.
I know what we can’t really schedule fun, recreation and play for a limited period of time. Linear demarcations between a time to work hard and a time to play? Yes, that’s what they all say but me, I say balderdash! Let’s not compartmentalise our lives anymore, k’.
Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too? That’s what cakes are FOR dontcha think? I swear, if I ever come across the person who made THAT one up… ooooh!
You and I, we’re part of the growing breed of people living consciously, realising that we’d rather not wait till we’re retired at 60 to start having fun. Breaking out of that old way of thinking, and creatively bringing in ways to enjoy our NOWS. The whole dance like no one’s watching, love like…
(ps: have I ever mentioned how glad I am that you’re with me in this? Consider it said and thank you!)
Reminds me of the Joshua Bell experiment. People pay bunches of $$ to watch him in concert and rave about him because they expect to be blown away by his talent.
Yet when he played at a subway station for 45 minutes, no one appreciated it or recognised him (except for a smart 3 year old who kept wanting to run to him. Sensing a theme here from my last post… 3 year olds are the epitome of BEING! Time to let your inner 3 year old call the shots maybe?)
Apparently he was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” (from one of bystanders) cos the subway station is about people running through like drones with one and one intent only – to make it to their destination without any distractions on the way.
People, people! HOW many times have you heard “it’s about the journey, not the destination”?!
Well of course you’re journeying to GET there but when you enjoy the steps it takes you to reach that happy place, you get there faster.
Because you don’t focus on the time it took to get there but the time of your life you had GETTING there – and time sure flies when you have fun!
I couldn’t finish without sharing the option I LOVE (and shared on my facebook fan page which, btw, you can join here!) The message?
Make it FUN!!
Every minute of every day is an opportunity to enjoy life. Create as many of those moments as you can daily, rather than waiting for the weekend or your annual holiday to let loose.
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What’s something you can do to bring more of this essence into your life? How did you change the way you look at life and what does that life look like now? What advice would you give someone who is scared they may seem irresponsible if they started having more fun? I know you’ve got the words, so share them people. Much love xo
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