I'm putting FUN on my to-do list, darn it!

Be silly! Celebrate! Play! Or…be honest here…is it surprisingly hard to do those things? If so, it's not you. Your brain instinctively tones down the fun. This may seem strange when fun is, well, fun, but our brain learned that scanning for threats is a successful survival strategy. We're constantly searching for the serious and the negative, which skews our perception to the serious and the negative. I've ended many a day mulling over one negative comment someone made but rarely ended celebrating all the great comments. Frustrating. I'm ready to have more fun, especially at this point in my life, and I CAN be silly, like my daughter captured in this photo. Maybe I should add "celebrate" to my to-do list. Doesn't that sound fun?