How many thoughts does the average human being have each day?

And what percentage of those thoughts are new?

What thoughts do you have stuck in your brain that just need to be cleaned out?

I’ve got stuff from 8th grade still rolling around in there. What a waste.

So, today, some ideas about making friends with our thoughts, spring cleaning what’s inside our head and making our thoughts work for us.

A quick 10 minutes of ideas that’ll upgrade your day today, and help future rough days be a bit brighter.

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What the heck? Cues? Yes if we want to have a behavior change that sticks like white bread to peanut butter we need to have a cue to this behavior that is OBVIOUS. That’s what we talk about this episode; how to make a cue obvious.

What the heck? Cues? Yes if we want to have a behavior change that sticks like white bread to peanut butter we need to have a cue to this behavior that is OBVIOUS. That’s what we talk about this episode; how to make a cue obvious.

This year we can have behavior changes that stick. This is part one of many podcasts about habit change. Happy New Year, New DECADE!!!

This year we can have behavior changes that stick. This is part one of many podcasts about habit change. Happy New Year, New DECADE!!!

I majored in Recreation Management. Yes, that’s a major. Save your judgment!!

I’ve always thrived on play. It’s just part of who I am. And I’m so impressed with all of the research on the science of play, how crucial it is, how it’s one of the core elements of what makes us humans instead of hippos, or something like that.

Anyway, Dr Stuart Brown is one of the main proponents advancing ideas centering on the importance of play, and here’s one of my favorite sum-up quotes from him:

“I have gathered and analyzed thousands of case studies that I call play histories. I have found that remembering what play is all about and making it part of our daily lives are probably the most important factors in being a fulfilled human being. The ability to play is critical not only to being happy, but also to sustaining social relationships and being a creative, innovative person. ”

Play isn’t just something that we do to pass time, something that we do when work is over, something that we do when we don’t have anything important to do. Play is fundamental to us being “fulfilled human beings.” TRUST ME! I HAVE A DEGREE AND EVERYTHING!

So, on this episode, the Play Personalities. You’ll learn what they are, and you’ll figure out which of them most connect with you. The Doggy bag will help you, too.

Let’s PLAY!

The Doggy Bag: The Play Personalities

Play-PersonalitiesDownload

I majored in Recreation Management. Yes, that’s a major. Save your judgment!! I’ve always thrived on play. It’s just part of who I am. And I’m so impressed with all of the research on the science of play, how crucial it is, how it’s one of the core elements of what makes us humans insteadContinue reading "Episode 2: Play (part 1)"

Okay here starts a great adventure – The Workshops for Life Podcast!

I’m so excited to share ideas from our workshops with you through these 15 or 20 minute bites once every two weeks.

Each episode we will “try on” an idea like you do when buying new clothes at the store. I hand the idea over the door, we all try it on for two weeks and see if it fits. Simple. I PROMISE to only bring you the best ideas.

Each episode will also include a Doggy Bag – hands-on work you can download and take home and see how it suits you. The whole purpose of the workshops and this podcast is to help you become the best version of you, and that only happens when you work. So, everything will be focused at work. Work means doing something. Doggy Bags help you do something.

We are starting with one of the key parts of our whole foundation – the Science of Gratitude!

Here are a couple of helpful links about Gratitude from Berkeley. Dig in and enjoy!

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_habits_of_highly_grateful_people

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/gratitude/definition#why-practice-gratitude

The Gratitude Journal. Try writing down three to five things you are grateful for in the morning and at night for two weeks. I’ll bet you’ll want to just do this forever.

DGBK Workshops – Workbook – Gratitude JournalDownload

Okay here starts a great adventure – The Workshops for Life Podcast! I’m so excited to share ideas from our workshops with you through these 15 or 20 minute bites once every two weeks. Each episode we will “try on” an idea like you do when buying new clothes at the store. I hand theContinue reading "Episode 1 – Gratitude (part 1)"

Okay this is an explanatory podcast for those who used to listen to my PIP podcast. It’s a quick wrap-up of the PIP Podcast, as it was, and a bridge to this new Podcast, Workshops for Life, where we take the ideas of the PIP Podcast and expand them into helping you be the best version of yourself.

Thanks for continuing on this journey with me, PIP People. Here we go!!!