The Powerful Effect of Bringing Play Into Your Life

Source https://zenhabits.net/playing/

By Leo Babauta

How much of your day is spent either 1) trying to make yourself do something you really don’t want to do, or 2) avoiding doing that thing you don’t want to force yourself to do (and feeling guilty about it)?

In truth, this is most of the day for many people. Trying to coerce ourselves to do stuff.

So a few things to say about coercing ourselves:

  1. It doesn’t work really well — we’ll put up a lot of resistance if we’re trying to force ourselves.
  2. Even if you can do it, it’s super not fun!
  3. And then when you’re done forcing yourself, you have to do it again. Over and over again. Hoping to do everything “right” but usually feeling like you’re not doing it “right.”

OK, so let’s say you’re convinced that coercing yourself to do …

Source https://zenhabits.net/playing/

By Leo Babauta

How much of your day is spent either 1) trying to make yourself do something you really don’t want to do, or 2) avoiding doing that thing you don’t want to force yourself to do (and feeling guilty about it)?

In truth, this is most of the day for many people. Trying to coerce ourselves to do stuff.

So a few things to say about coercing ourselves:

  1. It doesn’t work really well — we’ll put up a lot of resistance if we’re trying to force ourselves.
  2. Even if you can do it, it’s super not fun!
  3. And then when you’re done forcing yourself, you have to do it again. Over and over again. Hoping to do everything “right” but usually feeling like you’re not doing it “right.”

OK, so let’s say you’re convinced that coercing yourself to do …

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