Four Serious Reasons for Prioritizing Fun in Your Life

Our September topic of the month is FUN!

With Kamala's laughter & coconut trees bouncing through the ether, our collective mood has been somewhat lightened in this second half in summer.

Of course, there are plenty of things to be serious about, and we should! But how can we continue to hold a place in our lives for FUN? And what could be the tangible benefits of a practice of prioritizing fun?

Here are Four Serious Reasons We Should Prioritize Fun:

1. Joy - Fun gives you a feeling of joy in the moment. You can improve your own mood.

2. Self-efficacy - Being able to access fun, helps you know that you have choices & you're in charge of making those choices.

3. Increased Energy - Having fun is energizing! And you can use that energy for any productive or serious thing you want.

4. Improved quality of life - Fun for it's own sake has a youthful, playful component that most of us like. You deserve to have a good quality of life.

   
   

Take a few minutes to count on one hand, with each finger, five ways that YOU like to have fun! Try to include some things you enjoy alone, as well as with others. Try to include some things that are free of charge, and some that feel like just a little splurge (whatever that means to you - time, money, effort).

Now, which of these things do you want to prioritize in the next week? Make a plan for having fun, so you know it is inevitable that it will happen. You might even recruit a fun accountability-buddy, so you know you're building community that supports more of this in your life.

Whatever your reasons for prioritizing fun, they matter. Because you matter. Yes, serious things matter, too, but we each only have one life to live, and fun creates balance that can really make a difference in your world, and in the greater world!

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When in doubt, Unfold has your back in the fun-department! In addition to our wide variety of yoga classes (from desk yoga to flow, from restorative to strength-oriented), we also have now THREE classes per week that are set to upbeat pop and R&B music from yesteryear to today.

We're doubling & re-naming the Resistance Band Strength class, now called "Beats & Bands," and this 30 min class will be divided into Upper Body & Lower Body classes, offered midday on Tuesdays & Wednesdays. And you can find WERQ Dance Fitness every Thursday noon pst / 3pm est!

Sign up for classes NOW for FUN! :)