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DESCRIPTION
Make up your own playful or meditative activities.
INSTRUCTIONS
Take something you love to do, and do it with mental focus.
RELATED IDEA
Take something you don't enjoy, and figure out how to have fun with it.
JOY'S JOURNEY
There are many reasons I chose to become an educator and writer instead of becoming a clinical physician. First and foremost, I never wanted the driven lifestyle that most clinical physicians are required to live. Second, I never really felt like I fit in with my professional peers -- I was often criticized for being too lighthearted and playful in serious situations, and was often reprimanded for being too emotionally attached and involved with my patients and their families, even in pediatrics. Third, I found that everything in medicine seemed to require a physician to cause the patient pain, embarrassment or both. As I began to understand my brain's naturally wiring (ENFP), I also finally understood that while my natural personality gave me good bedside manner, it made it very difficult for me to generate objective and detailed lists of symptoms, disease, treatments, and drug side effects in my head. I would have had to spend most of my day using my weakest Myers-Briggs® functions.
One of the primary reasons I wrote this book was to help the other people who have trouble generating lists in their head. So, if you are better at recognizing the right answer than generating it, this book is for you. If you are good at coming up with lists, then I invite you to come up with your own activities and together we can all create a sequel to this book!
QUOTES
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up,
or which else remain bare and profitless forever.
Julia Ward Howe
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
John Ray
Dr. Joy is available to present playful workshops (playshops) at your corporate training retreat, non profit organization gathering, or club membership meetings. She is located in Denver, Colorado, and travels throughout the US to deliver Serious Fun ™ Programs for personal growth, wellness, and inspiration. Please see the program pages for details and contact information.
This playful meditation activity is COPYRIGHTED. If you are a professional trainer, coach, human resources person, counselor, or therapist it is not ethical nor legal for you to use it or share it with your clients or those you supervise/train as part of your job. See the copyright notice on the front page of this e-book. Remember, character is what you do when no one is looking. Please take the high road, and pay me appropriately to use these materials professionally, even if you work for a church, school, non-profit or the government.
© Copyright 1999-2008 by Joy Koenig. All Rights Reserved.
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