#19 Enjoy Yourself

Kylie knows it

When was the last time you stood at the beginning of a talk, the hosting of anything, or any performance and said quietly inside:

“Just enjoy yourself”

We live in a culture that rewards great performances. And we are programmed to compare ourselves with the best performers we see out there.

Even more insidiously, we have internalised a performance culture so that we live under the constant self-surveillance of what and how well we are, or are not doing.

Into this very space, the joyful creature of enjoyment jolsts.

And they ask: “what would it be like if you just enjoyed yourself as an antidote to painful over performance or life sapping anxiety?”

It’s a paradoxical dance, but it might be a jig worth experimenting with.

Listen to Matt chat about how it transformed his monthly board meeting today.

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