Playtime & Success - Who says you can't have it all?

“ The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” Vidal Sassoon.  


It’s a quote I’ve seen before and saw again this morning.

It may be true – I think we all understand the sentiment.  However, I did start to think about something that comes before both of those things – in the dictionary as well as in life. 

Play.

I tweeted a phrase my Dad used to share with me recently; “Find something you love doing Simon and you’ll never work a day in your life”.  What he meant was that work can be play – and if you make it so then it doesn’t feel like work anymore.  What is interesting though is the by-product of this – when work is play – it often breeds success.

Think about it.  Think about something you love; Something that when you do it you lose track of time; You get into a state of flow; Something that when you wake up early to do it you are excited and you can’t put it down at night.

It could be gardening, golfing, guitaring, gaming, gyming, grilling, galloping, guffawing or any other activity for that matter (it doesn’t even have to begin with with G).

If you really enjoy it, you’ll dedicate time and energy to mastering your art (or science), and as a result its likely that you are going to get pretty good at it.

It may be that you can’t just become a pro golfer – but there are lots of other opportunities to work in the world of golf.  The same goes for any activity.  If you love it enough, find a way to play and work at the same time.

It will make for a happy working life – and lets face it we spend a lot of our life at work.

Playtime and Success – Who says you can’t have it all?