According to organizational psychologist Dr. Mike Rucker, “happiness is a state of mind, but fun is something you can do.” Many of us have put fun habits to the side as we pursue our careers, parenting, and daily to-dos. In this episode, Dr. Rucker and Diana Hill talk about how to increase activities that bring you vitality and pleasure so that you can make fun an actionable and natural habit in your daily living!

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