Thursday, March 1, 2007  Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show
Up  Excerpts From Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Patricia Ryan Madson  Improv Maxims: 1. Say Yes 2. Don't Prepare
3. Just Show Up 4. Start anywhere 5. Be average 6. Pay attention
7. Face the facts 8. Stay on course 9. Wake up to the gifts 10.
Make mistakes, please 11. Act now 12. Take care of each other
13. Enjoy the ride  "What would you do if you knew you would not
fail? What would you do?" (17) "Life is an improvisation" (15)
"Listen to your inner promptings. Don't make choices to impress
others or to gain status. Listen to your own drum and march to
it" (13) "Learn to listen and trust your own imagination" (13)
"Seize the day, live each precious moment fully and with gusto"
(15) "Take chances and do more of the things that are important
to you" (15) "Make more mistakes, laugh more often, and have
some adventures" (15-6) "Improv is a journey of opening oneself
to possibility" (16) "A life brimming with spontaneity...Feel
yourself