Do you still remember how to have fun?

Has the business of selling ourselves as well as our product, stopped us from having fun?

Did you know, that having fun can make your more attractive and the more successful you will become?  Why?

• You will smile more
• have more energy
• you will attract good things and good people into your life.

People are intrinsically more attracted to the smiling, enthusiastic person in the room.  If you have a fun work environment, everyone is excited to be at work, emails are written with smiley faces, phone calls are filled with laughter and settlements are completed with a purpose.  

What is NOT fun

• Fun is NOT getting drunk on a Friday night.
• Fun is NOT watching TV or surfing the internet.
• Fun is NOT attracting likes on Facebook.
• Fun is NOT in the next new car or pair of shoes you buy.
• Fun is NOT found in walking around a shopping centre.

As children we have fun for ourselves.  We are not trying to please anyone.  As we start school, get our first job, become parents, we lose our fun.  We start doing things to please others and we stop smiling and start taking ourselves too seriously.  

We forget how to have fun, we think scheduling fun activities into our days is a waste of time.  When in fact in can improve how we do our jobs.

Lets remember how to have fun

1. SMILE - yup it is that simple.  Simply smiling at people and changing your body language will improve your mood and maybe, make someones day.
2. Watch a funny movie.  Scientists have shown that having fun can make you smarter.
3. Surprise your family and friends.  Do the unexpected.
4. Surprise your customers and/or staff.  Be thoughtful.
5. Use fun emoji’s and be funny with your emails and texts. This does not make you unprofessional as long as this fun approach is coupled with displays of competence. Fun communications just make you more human and interesting and people will be genuinely intrigued to meet you in person.

Some ideas on how to have fun

• Organise a cards night with whisky, cigars or whatever turns you on.
• Go on a country drive on weekends with a cavalcade of cars.
• Pretend you are a tourist and/or put on an accent for the day.
• Go to the farmers market or better still, go fruit picking at a farm.
• Invite your neighbours over. Especially the weird ones haha.
• Host a movie night with popcorn and ice cream.
• Share your bucket list with others and talk about what each means to you.
• Go through your old photos and relive stories. This does not mean you live in the past. Rather, it inspires future adventures.
• Go on a bike ride. The wind in your hair makes you smile.
• Go bowling or better still, play lawn bowls.
• Take turns cooking. Boys cooking for the girls always ends in laughter.
• Go to the park and on the swing set with your kids.
• Play board games and charades.
• Tell or read your kids stories at bedtime.
• Play backyard cricket or touch footy.
• Attend a seminar with colleagues – yes learning should be fun.
• Organise a surprise party for a friend or family member.
• Go dancing! 

Having fun doesn't make you unprofessional.  In the end, it could help you attract more clients as you are happier, you smile more and you have FUN.