If you’re like us, you have more to-do’s than time. So, here is one to-do list you probably rarely think of but is vital to our sustained personal effectiveness. It’s simple: Play, Rest and Think.
Play
It’s easy to disregard playing as trivial, especially when there are so many “serious” things we need to do: problems to solve, deadlines to meet, and tasks to finish.
But play actually helps us with all these things. It’s rejuvenating and stimulates our creativity. Researcher Stuart Brown says, “Nothing lights up the brain like play.”