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Laughter and fun can improve your health. Make it a habit to have some fun and encourage others to join in.

When was the last time you had fun? Do you make it a practice to have fun while you work? If you don’t have fun while you work I’ll bet your customers and clients are very  well aware of that. Let me introduce you a innovative business technique to increase your profits.

A few months ago I read the book Fish by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul and John Christensen, a short hour read that offers a lot. The parable uses the real life employees of the Seattle’s Pike Place Fish Market to tell a simple story with a big impact. The employees at Pike Place Fish Market have learned how to have fun and involve their customers on a daily basis. I believe if they can have fun while handling dead fish all day, the rest of us have no excuse. The moral to the story is having fun while you work will improve morale and improve results. On a side note; if you ever have an opportunity to see the live video of the Pike Place Fish Market don’t pass it up, it is worth the time to watch.

The point is life is too short and we spend much too much time working to not have fun while we are. Not only that it will help you do your daily business tasks more efficiently, In addition, laughter and fun can improve your health.

According to a Loma Linda University study, thirty minutes after 20 medical students laughed through a video of a well-known comedian, their disease-fighting white blood cells increased by 25 percent. And William F. Fry, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School says laughter also stimulates the brain, ventilates lungs, and raises heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, and circulation. That’s why 100 laughs a day, the average for adults, is equivalent to the physical benefits you get from riding a stationary bike for 15 minutes or spending 10 minutes on the rowing machine. Would you find these compelling enough reasons to explore, encourage and implement fun in your work environment.

The keys to create an innovative and fun work environment according to Fish are:

Choose your attitude. We always have a choice about our attitude and how we let the environment around us to interfere. You can choose to make this a great day.

Find ways to Play. We can be serious about our work without taking ourselves to serious. Find ways to add play to your work.

Be present. Staying focused so that you are present when customers and team members need you.

Make their day. Should you find your energy lapsing find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support or a good ear – and make their day.

Making your workplace (or small business setup) fun applies to the work from home office worker as well as the employees of a large corporation. Don’t rely on someone else to add fun to your day or others. Take on the task for initiating the fun, your customers, clients and co-workers will benefit from your positive happy attitude. Additionally, your family and friends will benefit from the fact that you have reduced the stress you carry with you throughout your day and into your evening, making you a more pleasant person to be with at all times.