Introduction: The Plerking Program © (a new approach to your working program)

Plerking © : The Perks of Putting Laughter and Play to Work

Why change the word WORK?

Because something is not working!

What is not WORKING?

WORK?

YES!

• Whatever happened to the 4 day work week?
• Whatever happened to the promise of more leisure time?
• Whatever happened to decreased work loads as a result of technology?
• Whatever happened to job security?
• Whatever happened to the concept that work takes time & can't always be done immediately?
• Whatever happened to the enjoyment of work ?
• Whatever has caused us to dread work ?

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
    ~ Paul Valery

 

If the above "whatevers" aren't distressful enough, we certainly have plenty of other reasons to dread work . The very word work has become a harbinger of gloom & doom. We can't often control what happens at work but we can change how we relate to it .

 

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper"
    ~ John Ruskin

 

By creating a new word ("PLERK") we have the opportunity to shift our perspective & create new tools to fit. A new frame of reference (PLERKING) that includes laughter, play and work, opens up new & unlimited choices for enjoyment. This contradicts our traditional view of work seen through eyes of great seriousness. By stepping back, laughing (gaining perspective) our view of work changes.

 

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
    ~ Abraham Maslow

 

"Plerking" is a fresh and expansive fun framework encompassing a much larger vision of work. In this manner, we open up new choices & possibilities for enlivening & enjoying this major part of our lives.

 

"To make the world laugh or cry or sit on the edge of their chairs."
    ~ Carl Laemmle,
        founder of Universal Studios, 1915.