Enjoy Doing Nothing

We all look forward to doing nothing over the coming holidays. Lazing around and taking it easy will soon be all the go. It’s the time of year when we respect, value and enjoy doing nothing, to refresh and refuel our mental energy.

Why then does ‘doing nothing’ get such bad press for the rest of the year? – “time-wasting, irresponsible, slacking off, non-achieving and counter-productive”? If a car was refueled once a year, it would be
useless for most of the year. People’s mental energy needs are far more complex.

For most of us ‘doing nothing’ actually means doing something we love, simply because we enjoy it. You will have in mind all sorts of enjoyable interests to pursue during your holidays. Such interests are vital throughout the year if we want to sustain our mental energy.

Make sure you enjoy ‘doing nothing’ in the coming weeks. But remember, over the rest of the year you will always do something better if sometimes you do nothing.

Wishing you a mentally-relaxing holiday season and the sustained energy to thrive in 2010,

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Creating Positive Human Behaviour

You are privy to getting some inside information on a different slant I am taking with my lifestyle mentoring business: Work Leisure International - go to http://www.workleisure.com. My theme of growth and maximizing potential through enjoying being your authentic self is perhaps better understood when considered in terms of the way we achieve positive human behaviour - at work, at home, or at play:

1. The Brain processes information gained from selected available data
2. Energy - physical and mental - drives this process
3. Products of this energy include heightened self esteem, creativity, enthusiasm, commitment, skill development, innovation and, last but not least, increased productivity
4. The outcome of this is growth - personal and corporate
   

Integral to the process are enjoyable emotions, good feelings and hopes (expectations of future benefits).

My trigger for building positive (rather than negative) human behaviour is through injecting what I call "The Enjoyment Factor". Compare the productivity levels of a project you enjoyed and one you didn't enjoy. When you lose yourself in an interest you love, you find yourself - the authentic you comes alive. Focusing on any interest you passionately enjoy - even for a few minutes - creates a positive ripple effect through the whole of the four stages listed above.

Do you relate to the process?

If you are going through a bad time you might perhaps see the process in reverse - your growth slowing, productivity dropping, mental energy down and experiencing sluggish processing of information.

Your comments on the above would be greatly welcomed and read with interest.