Wake Up To An Acronym
A couple of weeks ago I presented at a business conference on the subject of “Stress Relief Through Comedy”. Within that presentation I made some suggestions on how to bring comedy (well: how to bring “humour”) into the attendees’ workplaces. One such suggestion was something that I do everyday and that’s to read a couple of thought-provoking, funny, or inspiring blogs every morning. By using an RSS reader these posts are sent directly to you and (in most cases) are waiting for you when you first to get to work. (In my case: when I wake up and get to the computer.)
The specific example which I gave during the presentation was a blog called “Garfield Minus Garfield“. Every couple of days there is a new post made on this site with a very simple concept: remove the character Garfield from the comic strip Garfield and leave Jon Arbuckle there on his lonesome. It’s an existentialist’s dream… I haven’t seen a disappointing cartoon yet, and don’t suspect that I will.
In the weeks that followed this presentation, a friend of mine, Ryan Pilling, launched his own daily blog that I am getting a big kick out of. It’s funny, quirky, and does a good job of getting the creative juices flowing for me. It’s called “LSNED: Learn Something New Every Day“ and lives up to its name: every day you will discover some new (and quite interesting) fact presented in a fun way. Actually: it would be a great method to train for a trivia type game show.
I say that is gets my creativity going because of the sheer randomness of the facts that are presented. It’s impossible to anticipate one day to the next and, as such, is a great way to jar my brain out of patterns (and I think we all have such patterns). I do hope you will either check out the LSNED website or Facebook page to get your daily does of interesting facts! (I’ll also be including this site in my future “Stress Relief Through Comedy” presentations because I truly do believe that it is a great way to start the day.)
