Embracing Bored

Embracing Bored

Last Friday, my brilliant wife gave me a very clear instruction:

You need a weekend doing nothing.’ Doing nothing is alien to me; I’m always on the go.

But Christine is very good at making sure Michael doesn’t have a meltdown.

So, I listened.

After an hour of me doing very little, she asked how I was doing.

I claimed to feel… a little bored.

What she said next was brilliant, ‘Embrace the boredom.

Isn’t that great? Just three words. I immediately flipped it and gamified being bored.

I embraced it.

I spent the next two and a half days embracing slowing down, pottering, and basically being bored.

Just by adding ‘Embrace’, it’s amazing what you can flip.

  • Embrace not having

  • Embrace slow

  • Embrace not being right

  • Embrace being hungry

  • Embrace not knowing

  • Embrace simple

What else could you embrace?

I’ll send a copy of my book Flip It: How to Get the Best Out of Everything https://amzn.to/3x0yzvi to our favourite.

Please leave your comments below.

Be Brilliant!

Michael

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