When It Comes to Your Career and Your Life, Be Anything But Predictable.

I have a pet peeve about being predictable or boring. How is it that some people are fun loving, energized and can laugh at themselves while others are judgmental, cranky and boring? Are some of us born boring or is it a skill that we work tirelessly on until we make it into an art form?

I have surveyed audiences for the past dozen years and anywhere from 75% to sometimes 95% of group I am in front of tell me that they are drawn to the personalities that are fun, exciting, moving and shaking. You know the "we're here for a good time, not a long time" types. Getting by day-to-day, banking on their personalities, hoping no one comes along and rains on their parade type of folks.

So as we move through the year, I challenge you to be a bit more foolish. Ask yourself how long has it been since you laughed so hard it hurt? What was the last practical joke you played on someone? Think about the term, "practical joke", are jokes supposed to be practical?

The funny thing about laughter and humor is we want it but we really don't want it. That's because we judge it. We judge laughing and goofing off at work as being unproductive, slaking off, not professional and frivolous. When if fact it is the exact opposite. When we are laughing consistently at work, we come in earlier and are usually willing to stay longer. We are way more creative and experience less stress in our day-to-day lives. There is less conflict and when there are disagreements, we come to resolutions faster. We are healthier, because of all the hormones and endorphins running through our bodies. Our immune system is boosted, which means those of us who laugh more take less days off during the day. Because we are healthier, we look better and when we look better, we like ourselves more. When we like ourselves more we give better service and build better relationships at home and at work. And when we like ourselves better we tend to be better lovers and because we are better lovers, we "fool around" more often and in a recent study that came out of Germany, it claimed that when we "fool around" more, we're more intelligent! It is a WIN/WIN/WIN!!!!

So I want you to make it a mandate to never be boring again. Instead think of yourself as outrageous, wild, exciting, interesting, opinionated, sexy, vivacious and perhaps even succulent.

Hey why not, this is the only gig you got going right now and believe me it's pretty crowded sitting in mediocre.

At the very least keep everyone else guessing. Just be Anything but Predictable. So here's your challenge, plan a special date for a special person in your life. Make it fun and full of laughs. Create a story that you both will be able to rehash over the New Years Eve table this next year. Send me an email with the details of your date, If it's not more than PG, I'll post it on my site so others can be inspired by your creative story. info@lindaedgecombe.com