Born Today?

Your Year of Serious Play. This is the year you stop treating delight as a reward you earn after the real work and start treating it as the real work itself. A project you took on just for the joy of it becomes the thing people can't stop praising by spring. You'll find a rhythm where the goofing around and the good ideas arrive in the same breath. A piece you made quietly, almost as a lark, turns out to be the best thing you've done in ages, and you let yourself believe it. Someone watches you work and says you make it look easy. You make it look easy because you've earned the right to enjoy it. Start the playful thing this week, the one you keep almost beginning. The year rewards the move you make for the sheer fun of making it.