By Neil Phillips.

Unless your goal is to gain 100 pounds and become a couch potato, self-improvement is probably a good thing for your future.  The real question is not whether you should create change in your life, but what you should call the process of creating change in your life:  Should you call it work or should you call it play?

The word “work” creates a mindset that isn’t always the most productive.  Say, for example, you want to be more productive on the phone; you want to make more calls and close more sales.  When you call it work, you suck all of the energy out of the project.  Before you can start, you have to create a plan, set goals, block time for it, and make sure nothing is going to interrupt you.  You are fearful of failing and falling short of your goal, so your commitment isn’t whole-hearted.  Roughly two-thirds of American workers are not engaged in their work.  The same malaise may be affecting your commitment to work at self-improvement.

Now think about playing at self-improvement.  Let’s go back to our example of phone productivity.  Your commitment becomes one of jumping right in.  You check with others to see what they’ve been doing.  You want to try several options (time of day, number of dials before stopping, text before calls, etc.) to see what works.  You change from doing to learning.  Isn’t that what self-improvement is all about?  You want to learn a better way.  You are willing to risk more because you don’t care about failure.  You care about playing a better game the next time.

At the end of the day, when you play at improving, you are likely to get better results that when you work at it.  Isn’t that the name of the game?

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