You can make chores fun by telling people you’re Cinderella.
-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, ““Really Important Stuff My Kids Have Taught Me”

The grind of day-to-day, same ol’, regular, predictable, rote, and routine living is putting a damper on your otherwise cheerful and outgoing spirit. Each day is so familiar you wonder whether the calendar actually changes or if you’re stuck in an echoing time warp. Your daily activities are so repetitious you can and have conducted them with your eyes closed and your mind in Neverland looking for the happily ever after.

So, why not pretend you’re in Neverland? Why not pretend you’re someone else and tell everybody you’re that someone else? Children do it all the time and you know they’re having a great time.

Imagine you’re Father Time, able to will time to move forward to get you through this day as quickly as possible, or backwards so you can revisit and/or correct a situation that haunts you. Or imagine that you are riding across the sky on a magic carpet, pouring genie juice on each person you know and love to grant them their greatest desires. Or maybe you’d be a Prince or Princess that the world reveres and obeys, and nobody’d dare cross you with the trivialities of the day or hour...

Okay, so maybe you’re not accustomed to freeplay and visualization and it takes a lot for you to really imagine yourself as someone else. Perhaps you suppose this visual exercise pointless, and suffering the raised eyebrows of the people you tell that you’re Big Bird isn’t really all that fun (although I beg to differ). But hopefully, in an effort to bring frivolity and less predictability into your day, you can imagine what specific characters may feel and allow some of that whimsy into your life as you go about your regularly scheduled day. Ask yourself – how would your favorite dwarf (of Snow White’s gang of seven) get through a day like yours? How would Wonder Woman, Shazam, Cosby’s Brown Hornet, or Underdog handle the conundrums of your habitual situations? What would plain turned belle Cinderella do with the rats, dogs, and pumpkins you experience on a regular basis?

Maybe it’s still too unimaginable but the point is think outside the norm, to think in terms of the extraordinary, unusual, and uncommon to find some fun to dress up the day and remove the drudgery you’re feeling.

Challenge yourself to think as a child would. Their perspectives are often fresher, unencumbered, and healthier, and they don’t get stuck much in a rut.

Better still, make yourself an imaginary friend or two. They’re you’re friends; nobody’ll know they exist... unless you tell them just to enjoy the raised eyebrows.

Sadiqqa © 2007