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#LIFES AHA MOMENTS PROFESSIONAL#

Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary, found faith and feminism intertwined in her own life but sharply segregated in her professional encounters. It was a puzzle: intellectual discussions about theological matters rarely engaged issues centered on women, while feminist discussions skirted spiritual dimensions of women’s lives. We are here for you because you have always wanted to play.Originally posted in Huffington Post here. I have had to learn to take time for myself and to make time to play so that I could be my very best and most productive. To wrap things up, I just want to say that, Adventurer, I know that there are a million things fighting for your time and attention. This is why it is our goal and our focus to help people find connection and community through tabletop role playing games so you can embrace your creativity and individuality resulting in more fun! I want to help you find your perfect game.

Most importantly, play deprivation for any age results in individuals suffering from a lack of life engagement, creative expression, diminished optimism and energy. We play because we need to be silly! Studies show that being silly makes us smarter, reduces stress, balances hormone levels, gives us more energy. Puzzles and challenges that get us thinking keep our brains sharp. We play because it helps our brains work better. We play because it helps us maintain our social well-being. And the act itself is more important than the outcome.” “It’s voluntary, it’s pleasurable, it offers a sense of engagement, it takes you out of time. “Play is something done for its own sake,” he explains. Stuart Brown from the National Institute for Play says that to understand why play is important, we have to clearly define what play is. In the article Play doesn’t end with childhood: Why Adults need Recess too Dr. When was that last time that you made time for FUN? Do you think about fun as being as essential as your health? Or your work? Or – and this is a big one for me – OTHER PEOPLE’S NEEDS? So my question to you is, What do you do for fun? Because if I don’t, the world will just keep filling up every available space with more things to DO.

My husband and I play tabletop and couch co-op games together, I make time to play Animal Crossing on my Nintendo, I try to stop working at a reasonable time so that I can eat and relax watching a show or read a book before I go to bed.

Here I was in the middle of a business that created FUN for other people playing games, interactive stories and creativity – and I completely forgot to make time to have fun myself!Īnd since that day, I try very hard to make time to have fun. Fun? What do I do for fun? I don’t know what I do for fun? Do people still have fun? Can I? And I prattled on about our projects, and what was coming up, and about my family and what we were working on – and she said, “Oh, that’s neat! What do you do for fun?”Īnd I froze. Then, a couple of years ago I was getting my haircut at a new salon and the stylist asked me what I did for a living. In fact, the demands never ended- there was constant need – always something else that required attention and it all felt very immediately important.Īdd to that my own brain chemistry, and I had a cocktail for sleeplessness, hyper focus and 24/7 work, work, work.įast forward several years and I had given up on the hope that “after this, things will slow down” or “next week I’ll be able to rest” thinking. This was my inspiration and my passion – this was my ‘Why’! And with such meaningful purpose, it was easy to work 80 hour weeks to create unique and exciting programs. As we started building community by creating game nights, Nerf meetups and Dungeons & Dragons games, we realized pretty quickly that the need for this kind of connection went far beyond my own kids. The motivation for us to start organizing programs as Mastermind Adventures was to create a way for our kids to find connection.

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You know those moments where the world seems to crack open and you never see things the same way again? This happened to me a couple of years ago when I was getting my haircut and it changed my mindset and brought clarity to my life.Īs you know, I’ve been an accidental entrepreneur for nearly a decade.

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