Praise for Hop, Skip, Jump
Finally! A problem-solving book that relies on frivolity, joy, and insightful reflection rather than the ponderous, grown-up strategies that leave so many of us creative people bored to tears. If youve got a knotty problem, a dream unfulfilled, or a life that needs a little extra sparkle, Marney Makridakiss warm, wise, charming book is your golden ticket to a glittering solution. Never underestimate the power of whimsy.
SAM BENNETT, author of Get It Done! and founder of www.TheOrganizedArtistCompany.com
Are you feeling stuck in manifesting your next creative project? This book is designed to help you get going with it, in wonderfully playful ways. Marney Makridakis provides ideas, exercises, and examples to help you get started, and then to help you finish, your manifestation. She writes again and again, just try this. So open the book and try one of her exercises, just for the fun of it. You may be amazed at what bubbles up.
SEENA FROST, author of SoulCollage Evolving
Reading and using this book is so much fun that you dont even know youre transforming your life! Marney Makridakis takes the lofty concept of manifesting and breaks it down into simple, clear concepts and effective tools making it easy and natural to achieve whatever you want to create in your life and experience a world where work feels like play.
MARC ALLEN, author of The Millionaire Course and The Magical Path
You know that meaning is important but do you know how to create it? In her new book Hop, Skip, Jump, Marney Makridakis provides exactly the road map you need to lead a more intentional, meaningful life!
ERIC MAISEL, author of Life Purpose Boot Camp
Inside the colossal play in Hop, Skip, Jump is a practicality you wont forget because you had so much fun.
JILL BADONSKY, author of The Muse Is In: An Owners Manual to Your Creativity
Ive always marveled at how productive and prolific Marney Makridakis is and how she creates with such ease and joy. In her latest book, she unlocks a treasure chest full of playful tools and inspiring right-brain exercises to help us make our wildest dreams come true. Now instead of being jealous of Marneys manifestation superpower, I can hop, skip, jump my way to even more meaning, momentum, and magic in my work and life, and so can you.
JENNIFER LEE, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan
Hop, skip, jump with this wonder-full book into changing the way you experience productivity, replacing hard work with conscious play. Its the new route to joy-filled success. If your play-full self longs to achieve practical results, and feel good while doing it, Marney Makridakis shows you exactly how. She has one of the strongest blends of right brain and left brain of anyone I know, and this book is a creative fountain overflowing with her very best tools and techniques.
SARK, author and artist of Succulent Wild Woman
You will have so much fun reading this book that you might not even notice how much you begin to expand the creative capacities in yourself. Yet suddenly you will feel affirmed, alive, and eager to act, and you will hop, skip, jump into a whole new world of very real and powerful possibilities. Marney Makridakis is a sparkling genius.
TAMA KIEVES, USA Todayfeatured visionary career catalyst and bestselling author of Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Lifes Work!
What a truly delightful book. Reading it, I found myself squirming, and I had to jump up and make something. Marney Makridakis offers lively ways to play your way toward a truer life. Such fun.
JENNIFER LOUDEN, teacher and bestselling author of The Womans Comfort Book and The Life Organizer
This book is fun! It is the antidote to workaholism, successomania, and NETD (Never Enough Time Disorder I made up the disorder part, because I learned in this book that being imaginative is a positive part of play). But seriously well, as seriously as I can be after immersing myself in all this lightness and delight after you finish reading it, youll find work more fulfilling, success more forthcoming, and time on your side.
VICTORIA MORAN, author of Living a Charmed Life and The Good Karma Diet
Also by Marney K. Makridakis
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Makridakis, Marney K., date.
Hop, skip, jump : 75 ways to playfully manifest a meaningful life / Marney K. Makridakis.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-60868-311-6 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-60868-312-3 (ebook) 1. PlayPsychological aspects. 2. Creative ability. 3. Work-life balance. I. Title.
BF717.M35 2014
158.1dc23
2014022547
First printing, November 2014
ISBN 978-1-60868-311-6
Printed in the USA on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper
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FOR MY MOM
she plays with her books
creates and curates her games
her quiet brilliance
Y ou have probably picked up this book because you want to manifest something and its likely something you see as being part of your meaningful life. You might want to manifest:
A creative dream
Improvements in physical health
A soul mate
A different job or profession
Completion of an old, forgotten project
A new home
A meaningful community
Transformation of an old belief or attitude
A certain sum of money
A fantasy vacation
Change in the world
Of course, there are many more examples, but ultimately, manifesting comes down to momentum. Play invites you to connect to the power of momentum without even realizing it.
I believe in a world where work feels like play