Did you know that play is necessary for our survival as human beings. It’s fundamental to our relationships, our development, our capability to learn, our ability to innovate, and to our success in all areas of life and even to the health of society.

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Doctor and Play researcher Stuart Brown shares that “Play … is the single most significant factor in determining our success and happiness.”

That is a HUGE claim.

HUGE.

How Does Play Help Us Be Successful?!

Neuroscientists, developmental biologists, psychologists, social scientists, and researchers from various scientific fields all understand that play is a significant biological process. It influences brain development and enhances adaptability in individuals. [1]

It is this adaptability that we NEED in order to succeed and thrive.

If you’re not easily finding your next steps, your next projects, your NEXT path forward in life… consider incorporating More Play.

Play is critical to creativity and innovation. We need to get out of our default and automatic ways of living if we want to keep growing and expand. [1]

Your Sacred Play Experiment 💪

Incorporating More Play for Greater Success

1. Which area of your life feels the most stagnant, and the most in need of a paradigm shift AND a huge injection of more energy and enthusiasm? It could be a particular relationship? An aspect of your work or just your career in general. It could be any area of your life at all. Trust what pops into your mind.
2. First let’s heartstorm [yep like brainstorming but not done with the head – led by the heart] ways to play in this area of your life. Write down a list of absolutely any way you could play more in this area of your life. There are no good or bad ideas here! We’re just heartstorming to get our creative juices and spontaneous energy flowing!
3. Now pick one! Any one! And commit to incorporating this for at least a week.

<aside> 🏆 Pro Tip: If this feels really important to you – consider journaling about it daily. If you are in a big crossroads at work, or in a turning point in a relationship – I can’t encourage you enough to do this experiment and journal about it every day. PLAY MIGHT be the MISSING LINK to finding your way through this transition time. Don’t let your serious, stuck big brain try and figure it out. Overthink. Stress. Worry. Plan and Analyze yourself sick. Try PLAY!!!! Try just getting free and spontaneous and doing things with more joy and light heartedness and see what happens!?!?

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