We tend to think that work is for work, while play and rest are for life! Well if you want to work yourself to death, knock your socks off. Or you can check out these slide to see how you can integrate play and rest into your professional life!

1. Play and Rest Your Way Through
Your Work Day!

2. Maybe your thinking that sounds nice?

3. But impossible?

4. Not impossible!

5. However, first we need to be on the
same page about what is meant by
play and rest. We also need to
redefine the word work!

6. First, let’s think of work, play, and rest
as attitudes or ways of being.
Rather than being activities on their
own. For example: work being a
job, play being social, and rest being
asleep.

7. What do I mean by a attitude or way
of being?

8. Great Question!
An attitude or way of being…
• Is a whole system state, effects and involves
the mind, body, and spirit.

9. Every System State Has…
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a posture
movement patterns
an energy
a perspective
a type of focus
a relationship to time
an emotional charge

10. Work
An attitude or way of being that is
direct and task oriented.

11. Being in WORK mode is great for…
• Crossing things off your to-do list
• Balancing your check book
• Proof reading emails or other professional
documents
• Keeping minute in the board room
• Conflict resolution

12. This is perhaps the most familiar and
over used attitude of being in the
professional world.

13. Play
An attitude or way of being that is
indirect and discovery oriented.
brainstorming and creating.

14. Being in PLAY mode is great for…
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Brainstorming
Problem solving
Compromising
Creative work
Product development

15. Play is most useful in situations where
a goal or course of action has not just
been identified.

16. You probably utilize play often without
even realizing it.
How might the powerful wisdom of
this attitude enhance your work if you
engaged with it consciously?

17. Rest
An attitude or way of being that is
open and receptive, non directional,
and nurishment and resource
oriented.

18. Being in REST mode is great for…
• Reviewing past projects
• Integrating feedback from clients or
supervisors
• Market research
• General research of any kind
• Professional development
• Listening in meetings

19. Rest feeds a project the nutrients it
needs to move from play to work.

20. By: Charlie Birch, CDP
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT
WORK, REST, AND PLAY IN THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD
CONTACT:
KGBirch@gmail.com
@BeingHumanAlly
www.CharlieBirchProjects.com/BHA-consulting
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