Thank you for joining us for episode 481 of Live Happy Now.

As students and their teachers head back to school, summer is ending, but that doesn't mean our summer of fun has to.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and two months ago, we launched Live Happy's eight-week summer

of fun email course with

organizational psychologist Mike Rucker.

Many of our listeners signed up to get a weekly reminder of how to add more fun to their

summer, and this week, Mike is back to talk about how we can take what we've learned about

having fun and make it last all through the fall and winter.

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 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, you know, building joy into your life. Yeah. One of the

other things that I've 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

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