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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Would You Like To Be a Caterpillar or Butterfly Today?
(Photo by Laura Herbert) The caterpillar works and works, slowly crawling from leaf to leaf, endlessly chewing and digesting, getting heavier. This same creature also is a butterfly, flitting from flower to flower, sometimes sipping nectar. It’s helpful to remember that they are one and the same, isn’t it? This creature has two approaches to [...]
Traveling rings and the Circus of Life
It’s incredibly helpful to be around others doing what we love the way we love doing it. Seeing random people swinging in intuitive ways from the different monkey bars, rings and ropes in Santa Monica immediately shifted me back into playful-delight mode. This was especially noticeable after working for such a long, sustained period and [...]
Posted in Passion, Play Tagged Play, refining passion, Santa Monica, team play, traveling rings Comments closed
Delight or Self-Improvement?
(Yes, the gentleman in the photo above is hula hooping while on the traveling rings – I got to seem him do this in person on the traveling rings in Santa Monica) Find the delight in the play or get wrapped up in trying to scientifically improve and measure my progress or lack thereof – [...]
Life, a Giant Playground for Adults
Here’s what I saw that sunny afternoon on the beach in Santa Monica after leading a series of Virtual Team Quest virtual team building activities for Latham & Watkins’ directors: a giant playground for adults. There were chinning bars at various heights, parallel bars, traveling rings, climbing ropes, and a padded gymnastics area. I had [...]
Posted in Play Tagged Jack LaLanne, Joe Gold, Kirk Douglas, Latham & Watkins, Mae West, Muscle Beach, Santa Monica Muscle Beach, Virtual Team Quest Comments closed
World Record Breakers: Olympic Team Building Games Go For the Gold!
What is it like to capture the energy, passion and fervor of Olympic competition? What’s it like to break a Guinness World Record? World Record Breakers takes you there! In this high-energy Olympic-style teambuilding activity, 12 brazenly hilarious events, never seen before by fans anywhere, challenge your team to go for the gold, again and [...]
Posted in Team Building Tagged activities team building, games for team building, Guinness Team Building, Guinness World Record Team Building, olympics team building, team activities, team activities games, team builders, Team Building, team building at work, team building event, team building exercises, team building game, team building games exercises, team exercises, team games, World Record Breakers Comments closed
Confessions From Santa Monica’s Muscle Beach
I recently finished leading a series of Virtual Team Quest virtual team building activities for Latham & Watkins’ directors. I had the afternoon free before flying out of LAX so I walked out of the Leows Hotel to the beach in Santa Monica, California, right next to the famous Santa Monica Pier. As I walked [...]
Posted in Play Tagged exercise, exercise confessions, Latham & Watkins, Leows Hotel, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Pier, Virtual team building, Virtual Team Quest Comments closed
If at first an idea is not absurd…
“If at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.”- Albert Einstein Ideas! I’ve had millions. So have you. And I hope we have millions more. There are too many to act on, so why not go with the ones that have the most life, the most energy to them? One good [...]
Posted in Passion, Play Tagged Albert Einstein, All truth passes through three stages. First, Arthur Schopenhauer, Craziness must have more companions than wisdom, Don Quixote, If at first an idea is not absurd, it is accepted as being self-evident., it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, there is no hope for it Comments closed
Plork! Combine work and play (a Quix Tip)
Select a small work task that has low stakes Take a few minutes before starting the task to brainstorm how you could bring play into completing it. Complete the task while focusing exclusively on finding intrinsic joy in the way you complete the task. Give yourself a high-five, regardless of the outcome! Repeat, rinse well.
Try This At Home – Are You A Guinness World Record Breaker?
The Guinness World Record Breaker round is the grand finale of the [World Record Breakers]. In it, everyone tries to break an actual Guinness World Record. Here’s one that you can try on your own, either at your desk, to start a meeting as an energizer or at home with your family. Longest paper clip [...]
Posted in Team Building Tagged activities team building, games for team building, Guinness Team Building, Guinness World Record Team Building, olympics team building, team activities, team activities games, team builders, Team Building, team building at work, team building event, team building exercises, team building game, team building games exercises, team exercises, team games, World Record Breakers Comments closed
Twelve Actions That Help Me Plork