Comments on: Give Up the Game, or Change the Rules? http://workingorplaying.com/give-up-the-game-or-change-the-rules/ Experiments in Lifestyle Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:01:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mattison http://workingorplaying.com/give-up-the-game-or-change-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Mattison Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:57:48 +0000 http://workingorplaying.com/?p=177#comment-26 Ed Right on! The cool thing about creating your own game is that: 1) you are way more invested in sticking to it & 2) it is your game so you can change the rules anytime you want to, not to let yourself "off the hook", but to move yourself forward. This is often very appropriate, especially if your game "does its job" and helps you move forward or transform. When that happens the old game must be updated to keep up with the new you. I wrote a blog post about this recently. http://mattisongrey.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/the-problem-with-goals/ Keep up the great work! Mattison Ed
Right on! The cool thing about creating your own game is that:
1) you are way more invested in sticking to it
&
2) it is your game so you can change the rules anytime you want to, not to let yourself “off the hook”, but to move yourself forward. This is often very appropriate, especially if your game “does its job” and helps you move forward or transform. When that happens the old game must be updated to keep up with the new you. I wrote a blog post about this recently.
http://mattisongrey.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/the-problem-with-goals/

Keep up the great work!

Mattison

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