For Your Greatest Health and Success,
Forget Funny and Focus on Fun

You're familiar with the phrase, "there's
the rub," meaning "there lies the
difficulty"? It's usually used to describe
a stumbling block in your path or your
central dilemma. But while it's associated
with Hamlet, did you know that this phrase
was not coined by Shakespeare? I'll finish
this thought in a moment...

Things that are funny are almost always
fun. But things that are fun are not always
funny. There's the rub. Most of us, I've
found, confuse fun and funny...to our
unfortunate detriment.

It's easy, and dangerous, to forget the
distinction between fun and funny; when we
focus on funny instead of fun we can quickly
get discouraged because trying to be funny
puts a lot of pressure on us. Especially
when some of us are not naturally funny. Even
if we are naturally funny, placing funny
before fun is still a mistake because it
causes us to prematurely focus on the
outcome rather than the process of humor.

You see, funny is a result while fun is a
process. Funny is an action, while fun is
an attitude. Fun is virtually unrestricted
and can be had almost anywhere at anytime,
while funny has some very definite
limitations. Since you can take an attitude
of fun into any situation or circumstance,
while being funny is sometimes inappropriate
and unwelcome, is there any wonder that I am
advocating fun over funny?

Here are three steps you can take right now
to forget about being funny and start having
fun:

1. Remember Your Fun. What games
   did you enjoy when you were 5 to 10 years
   old, when you were having fun naturally? Think
   of 10 specific examples of games you enjoyed
   and then ask yourself, "How many of them
   involved active imagination and physical
   movement?" I'll bet most of the games on
   your list involved both.


2. Plan Your Fun. Take the list you
   made in Step One and update each game to a
   version you might be able to play
   currently. Can you think of an adult
   version of hide and seek, tag, or playing
   with dolls? How about trying to avoid
   direct eye contact with your boss when she's
   looking for someone to work overtime this
   weekend, playing "phone tag," or trying on
   clothes at the mall? But those are my
   ideas -- see what you come up with.


3. Have Your Fun. Give yourself
   permission to have more fun and back it up
   with a commitment to have 15 minutes of fun
   each day. Why do you need a commitment to
   have fun? Because you are bucking years of
   incorrect indoctrination that fun should be
   reserved for recreation. You want the
   excellence which, research shows, having fun
   creates so well.

The lesson is simple: you want the full
benefit of humor's powerful natural
medicine, so don't confuse fun with funny. They
are definitely not the same thing. While it
might be funny to give an elephant an enema,
for example, I'm sure it's not fun! And now
you know exactly how to lose your focus on
being funny and get started having fun.

Shakespeare, by the way, didn't originate
the phrase "there's the rub," he only made
it famous. In Hamlet, Hamlet considers
death as a way to end life's struggles and
finally rest easily. But then he also
realizes there would be a catch.

"To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause."
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1

Don't fall for the trap of trying to be
funny instead of having fun. You'll put less
pressure on yourself and you'll also feel the full
measure of humor's incredibly powerful
natural medicine.

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