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<\/a><\/p>\nIn my previous post<\/a> (back in November!) I wrote of making work more playful. Here, at last, is an example – the daily commute.<\/p>\n (I realise not everyone commutes to work – or has a commute like mine – but hopefully this will still serve as a useful illustration of how to make any work more playful.)<\/p>\n The daily commute is about getting from A to B as quickly as possible. We need to get to work, and we want to get home. And I understand that. So do I!<\/p>\n But the way to make a commute just a little more playful is to make it something more than this – more than a just a hurried journey from A to B.<\/strong><\/p>\n So, what do I mean by this?<\/p>\n Well, we could skip to work! I’m not suggesting that we should<\/em> skip to work, or that I would<\/em> skip to work (never going to happen!) But we could<\/em> – and it would certain make our journey more playful!<\/p>\n There’s nothing to stop us – other than the utter embarrassment most of us would feel! (Imagine me – a man in my 50s – skipping through the City on my suit! Then again, perhaps don’t!)<\/p>\nWe could skip to work! <\/a><\/span>Click To Tweet<\/a><\/span>\n So, do I have any more sensible suggestions?<\/p>\n Well, if an ‘unplayful’ commute is about getting from A to B as quickly as possible, then a playful commute could involve a more circuitous route and a little more time (by design, rather than the vagaries of the transport system!)<\/p>\n We could, for example:<\/p>\n I’m not suggesting we do this every day. It’s probably not possible, and could become an obligation (and, hence, ‘work’) in itself.<\/p>\n But it might be good to give ourselves a bit more time, and mix things up, every now and then.<\/p>\n And if we can make our daily commute feel a bit more playful, then surely there’s hope for the rest of our lives?!<\/strong><\/p>\n Thank you for reading this. Please do share with others, and let me know what you think. Thank you!<\/p>\n Image by Chris Brown<\/a> (CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my previous post (back in November!) I wrote of making work more playful. Here, at last, is an example – the daily commute. (I realise not everyone commutes to work – or has a commute like mine – but hopefully this will still serve as a useful illustration of how to make any work… Continue reading A Playful Commute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,41,40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2k38J-lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asachildbook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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