Do you ever feel tired? Stressed out? Overwhelmed?
If I suggested that the solution might be to try having some more fun would you laugh at me and tell me you don’t have time?
Well, that’s exactly what I did when my counselor suggested it to me.
I was on repeat with my frustrations and feelings of burn-out.
I thought I needed to actually dig in harder and do more work.
But then I actually tried her suggestion of “having fun“, and darnit if she wasn’t 100% right.
My life had gotten woefully out of balance and it turns out the fix was as simple as watching some dog fails on YouTube and reading a funny website that I love.
No lie. It was that easy.
I know, I know. You don’t have time and it’s not allowed and you don’t even know what you enjoy doing anymore.
Me too.
That is the tricky part.
The remembering what fun is. The should’s around feeling like you need to be in go mode or else you’re being lazy.
The permission.
That’s why I made this episode.
Listen today to hear:
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The scientifically proven reasons why you need to be having fun
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What gets in the way of me having fun and how it stopped me from dancing on the tables in Turkey
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How I push through now regardless of how silly, unncessary or wasteful having fun may seem
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The specific things I do/read/watch when I want to laugh and/or have some fun (you are going to learn a lot today about my sense of humor!)
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Plus my attempt at making some jokes
This episode is very different than last week and I hope it helps balance you out some the way it did me.
(All the links below are put into context in the episode – I just want you to have them at hand so you aren’t writing things down whilst driving or cooking dinner or painting or slicing a pear.)
Read: The Internet Is a Playground, by David Thorne
Read: David Thorne’s website
Watch: Sleepwalk With Me with Mike Birbiglia. Really anything with Mike Birbiglia, including Thank God For Jokes and My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend which are both on Netflix
Aziz Ansari: http://azizansari.com/
Louis C.K. : Hide and Seek
Louis C.K. : Kids Bored
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