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Humor U Tip #183 – Vacation While You Work
Make Someone Happy at Work Opportunity
Movie Recommendations
Humor U Stuff – Some Really "Hot" New Stuff!
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1. HUMOR U TIP #183 – Vacation While You Work

By Ann Fry

An article in the New York Times, titled “The Rise of Shrinking-Vacation Syndrome", discussed how people are taking fewer vacations. Cause: time, money, no vacation time, etc.
So, if the people won’t go on vacation, Humor U says, let’s take the vacation to the people— WHILE at work!

Here are some ideas:

Watch the ice cubes float in your glass, put a little umbrella in it, wear your flowery shirt and pretend you’re on the veranda in Jamaica.
Buy everyone in your neighboring cubes (no pun intended) one of those little hand electric fans.
Take splash breaks—on break, splash yourself with cold water to chase away the red face heat.
If your company has inside games (foozball or pool tables)—stay inside, but play the games.
Play Hawaiian music in your cube and do the hula.
Wear your hiking boots—walk up and down the stairways.

For real—be creative. Get a group of co-workers and establish the “Vacation Fun” committee; come up with awesome, cool ideas and send out a sheet of events for the entire company to do.
Stay cool!!! And enjoy!

Truth: People just want to work for GREAT companies and GREAT managers. They want workplace "CULTURES THAT WORK". Can you say... PROFIT?

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2. MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY AT WORK OPPORTUNITY

Make sure that everyone around you has chocolate this week. Drop off little candy kisses or M&Ms—leave a note that says from the “Fall” pre-Halloween fairy.

3. MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS

Because humor, laughter and FUN are our game, we LOVE movies as a source for those feelings. So, whenever we see a movie that we think is really fun or silly or otherwise worthy of recommendation, we'll cover it here. Movies, by the way, are great "therapy"—a great way to get away from stress and the busy world.

Boynton Beach Club – A raucous look at the Over-50 Singles in Florida. Funny, bittersweet. Nice to know that as we age we still want the same kinds of connections in our life. I enjoyed it.
Little Miss Sunshine – A bit racy (language) story of a dysfunctional family on a road trip for their youngest child to enter a beauty contest. Everything that can go wrong does, but they pull together. A lot of fun.

BLOWOUT PRE-FALL SPECIALS!

There are still some left, so take advantage. Time to clear out the stock and pass the savings on to you—and a few of your friends.

Laughing Matters (digital download)—$5.00 (and get a FREE Holiday Tips booklet too; you'll definitely want this before the holidays!).

Books—hard copies (mailed to you) at great prices:

Laughing Matters: The Value of Humor—$10.00
Coaching Morsels—$10.00
Laughing Matters (2-CD set)—$15.00

Continued Special Workshop Deals:

Lighten Up: A Playful Approach to Stress Management—Ann’s best-selling workshops for companies, 1 to 2-hour session.

In the Northeast $450.00 (plus transportation costs)
Anywhere in the country—$750.00 (plus travel costs)

To arrange your workshop, send Ann an email or call at 212-787-6320

*Ann wants to visit your state, perhaps interview the CEO of your company, so offering these little workshops (at 10% of usual cost) is a win-win for you and her. To arrange these, send Ann an email at ann@humoru.com.

4. HUMOR U STUFF: Some “hot” new stuff.

Do you work at a fun workplace?
FINALLY—a place for you to nominate your company!
For Ann’s new book, Cultures That Work, we’re doing full-out research about great places to work—beginning with FUN. We want you to nominate your company as one of the MOST FUN Places to work on the planet. Ann will contact your CEO and interview him/her to find out what makes your workplace “Culture Work”. Go to www.culturesthatwork.com.
Bring Ann Fry to your workplace—ta da!!! Really special—Workshop offering*:

NEW: Laughing Matters: Customer Appreciation Workshop—bring in Ann to do a 2 to 3-hour presentation to your clients—buy them all one of her books, let them leave having laughed and learned to lighten up their workplace. They stay loyal customers for a long time. To book this for holiday appreciation, contact ann@humoru.com or call 212-787-6320. It’s a different way to show them you care.
It’s Boomertime: Have a Bodaciously Fun and Fulfilled Life
To find out more, visit www.itsboomertime.com.
Ann will be presenting at a dynamite conference in Ft. Lauderdale in October—the Mind Spa Conference for Women. It will blow you away. To read more, go to www.eliteeventsworld.com/files/mindspa.php and when you register, type in this code: 1125. (That means you really want to see Ann.)

And finally, an ANNOUNCEMENT of interest …

Ann is now living in New York City—yes, Manhattan—hoping to “lighten up” workplaces and conferences in the Big Apple and East coast. If you know of companies needing a little booster shot of FUN—let them know about Ann. She can be reached at 212-787-6320.
And, she still lives part-time in Austin, TX and helps them cowboys lighten up around there.

FYI: We are developing our first-ever self-study course on How to Lighten Up the Workplace—keep it in mind and we'll keep you in the loop on our progress.

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Humor U Tips© is an electronic bulletin produced as a service by Humor University. The editorial staff has left errors in this Amuseletter so that our anal-retentive fans might experience left-brained joy in finding them. Humor U Tips© is written and compiled by Ann Fry, the founding Dean of Fun and a leading national expert who works with organizations that want to boost employee morale and managers who want their employees to be energetic and creative about their work.

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