Thank you for joining us for episode 536 of Live Happy Now.

Labor Day is behind us, so that means we're putting the lid on summer and getting ready to roll into fall.

But that doesn't mean you can't take your lighthearted summer vibe with you.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and we recently wrapped up our second

summer of fun campaign featuring the guidance of organizational psychologist Mike Rucker,

author of The Fun Habit. This year's campaign got a tremendous response, and we wanted to make

sure that you carry your summer of fun spirit into the fall. So listen to my conversation with Mike about how you can

take what you learned and make this a fun-filled fall. Let's have a listen. Mike, welcome back to

live happy now. Thanks for having me back. It's always a pleasure. Hey, so we are wrapping up a summer of

fun, but that doesn't mean we have to quit having fun, I guess. Absolutely.

So I have really enjoyed this whole campaign that we did. I think one thing that happens with

summer, we can get caught in one of two traps, and this is like, this is my fun time,

or we're still so busy that we feel cheated out of summer fun. You know,

we have it in our heads from the time we are kids because that's, hey, we're out of school.

That's when we're supposed to have fun. And then we become adults. And it's like, well,

wait a minute. I'm not having much fun. I'm working every day. I'm doing all these things.

And that's what I loved about the Summer of Fun

series is it was a reminder of you can build fun into your life in simple, small ways. And it is

incrementally adding up and contributing to building joy into your life. Yeah. One of the other things

that I found fascinating just recently, well,

not recently, I think recently I had this awakening, but it was because there's been a plethora

over the last four to six weeks and maybe some of it came in through this program, but just how

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