Still Silly After all These Years

The Number One Rule For Being True To YOU!

Are you Gingerbread or Multigrain?

Say, you took one of those silly, facebook tests that told you what kind of bread product you were? What do you think the result would be?

I am Gingerbread. Facebook says among other things that “I am full of surprises, always ready for adventure. I like to ‘spice things up’ and often turn a boring Wednesday night into a party.” 

Funny how the silliest things can make you think about parts of you that you have not appreciated lately and maybe censored.

Occasionally, I am tempted to take myself way too seriously and even hold back a little. Why?, because I am not sure people want a life coach who has pillow fights with her husband, plays practical jokes on her friends, wishes there were more places to wear hats, and has flowers painted on her toes?  Does the world need gingerbread? Maybe.

I truly hope it does. I figure God made me this way, and when I get an inspiration for something fun to do, I often laugh out loud—making my husband nervously ask, “What’s so funny?” I guess I just think life is too short not to have some fun along the way.

If you are serious about your work–and, I am–the results of your effort should speak for itself. So, I say, go ahead and draw with the crayons at the restaurant, make paper airplanes, walk backwards, speak in a different accent for an hour. Being silly every so often will break up the mental walls that  threaten to turn creative minds into a pile of flavorless croutons.

All this leads me to this question, “What part of you have you censored?”  ”Are you a multi-grain or a seven-layer cake?” “Do you think being a pink cupcake isn’t serious enough?”

Think again, sometimes the funniest things can remind you of what makes you amazing.

So take a moment to be silly, go to www.facebook.com and take the test titled, “What kind of bread product are you?” I hope you are reminded of just how wonderful you are!

Kathy Vick, C.L.C.
www.fluentlifecoaching.com
www.runlikeagirl.org
503 886 9642 

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