The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century » happiness http://www.joeydevilla.com Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun http://www.joeydevilla.com/2010/01/14/the-eight-irresistible-principles-of-fun/ http://www.joeydevilla.com/2010/01/14/the-eight-irresistible-principles-of-fun/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:15:24 +0000 Joey deVilla http://www.joeydevilla.com/2010/01/14/the-eight-irresistible-principles-of-fun/

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun is a cute little video created by Michael Bungay Stanier’s Accordion City-based work-coaching company, Box of Crayons. Those of you who know me personally might find these principles strangely familiar…

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Here’s a graphic I found the other day while doing a little computer “housekeeping”. I thought it would be perfect for the first post of the new year and decade:

When I was 5 years old, my mom told me that happiness was they key to life. When I went to school, the asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life.

Do the assignments, but don’t forget to do life!

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Yes, the demands and schedule of my job as Sith Lord at Microsoft have kept me quite busy, but it doesn’t matter because I live in the “Hooray!” zone, as shown in the Venn diagram below:

Venn diagram showing the "Hooray" zone as the intersection of "What we do well", "What we want to do" and "What we can be paid to do"

For more information, see the LifeHacker article titled The Road to Happiness in Your Work Lies in the Hooray! Zone.

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