RESOURCES

Ready to take a deeper into the world explored in The Power of Having Fun?

The message of this book didn’t simply come out of left field. It is actually the product of years of inspirational writing and academic studies from various authors in the field of time management. Below, are the links to articles and resources Dave used to develop The Power of Having Fun. These articles are your gateway to becoming an expert in time management, forging better relationships, and to bringing more joy to your life!

• Is Overwork Killing You?
• Goldman Sachs reduces intern day to 17 hours after death of Bank of America Corp. intern – Salon.com
• The State of American Vacation: How Vacation Became A Casualty of Our Work Culture | Project: Time Off
• Don’t Miss Your Life: Find More Joy and Fulfillment Now: Joe Robinson: 9780470470121: AmazonSmile: Books
• The Secret to Increased Productivity: Taking Time Off
• Why Marissa Mayer’s 130-Hour Workweek Idea Is Completely, Totally Wrong | Inc.com
• Why You Need To Stop Thinking You Are Too Busy To Take Breaks | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
• Marissa Mayer: You, Too, Can Work 130 Hours a Week If You Plan When to Take a S***
• Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein Says Young People Are Living in Oppression
• Embracing Work Breaks (Eschleman Lecture).pdf
• Want kids to listen more, fidget less? Try more recess… this school did – TODAY.com
• Recess Is as Important as Class Time, Pediatricians Say | TIME.com
• School recess offers benefits to student well-being, Stanford educator reports
• The U.S. recess predicament: Extraordinary photos of what we can learn from play in other parts of the world – The Washington Post
• The Importance of Recess and Play
• Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein Says Young People Are Living in Oppression
• Turns Out Monkey Bars And Kickball Might Be Good For The Brain : NPR Ed : NPR
• Why Kids Need Recess | Children’s Health & Wellness
• Recess Makes Kids Smarter.pdf
• US-play-coalition_Research-based-case-for-recess.pdf
• www.csub.edu/~lwildman/21st_Schools/documents/Sch14.htm
• Recess is Indispensable.pdf
• The Science Behind Learning and Having Fun. Why Fun Matters
• [Infographic] Anatomy Of A Happy Office | Young Upstarts
• What Really Drives Employee Happiness? [Infographic]
• The Memri Economic Blog: UAE Job Satisfaction Rating Very Low
• Having Fun = A Healthier Brain
• The Importance of Play: Having Fun Must be Taken Seriously | Psychology Today
• 2016-Employee-Job-Satisfaction-and-Engagement-Report.pdf
• Adult Recess! And 11 Other Office Traditions We Love
• I Hate Taking Vacation, and I’m Not Alone | r/ally
• Only 13 percent of people worldwide actually like going to work – The Washington Post
• State of the American Workplace.pdf
• Employee_Engagement_and_Retention_2013_KGWI.pdf
• 10 top writing tips and the psychology behind them – without bulls***
• Brain Science: Focus–Can You Pay Attention? by Art Kohn : Learning Solutions Magazine
• 12 Great Things About Retirement | On Retirement | US News
• Orny Adams on Failure | Psychology Today
• The not-American dream: Do other countries have national catchphrases?
• Even Tiny Rewards Can Motivate People to Go the Extra Mile
• The Hidden Power of Small Rewards: The Effects of Insufficient External Rewards on Autonomous Motivation to Learn
• How the World Perceives the New American Dream – The Atlantic
• Elementary Schools Tripled Recess Time And Saw Positive Results
• Millennials in Adulthood | Pew Research Center
• Teens, Technology and Friendships | Pew Research Center
• Why some schools are sending kids out for recess four times a day – The Washington Post
• Relationships with family members, but not friends, decrease likelihood of death — ScienceDaily
• Employees Who Feel Love Perform Better
• Improving-work-outcomes.pdf
• Work-family enrichment, work-family conflict, and marital satisfaction: a dyadic analysis. – PubMed – NCBI
• A resource perspective on the work-home interface: the work-home resources model. – PubMed – NCBI
• How Parents Can Influence Academic Performance Simply by Talking | TIME.com
• Conversing helps language development more than reading alone | UCLA
• ERIC – The Early Catastrophe. The 30 Million Word Gap., American Educator, 2003
• BLS – Employee Tenure Summary
• have fun, enjoy, joy, fun – Explore WORLD – Google Trends
• have fun, enjoy, joy, fun – Explore USA – Google Trends
• Amazon: The Power of When: Discover Your Chronotype -Michael
• LinkedIn Learning: Online Courses for Creative, Technology, Business Skills
• The 90-Minute Solution: How Building in Periods of Renewal Can Change Your Work and Your Life (POLL) (VIDEO) | Huffington Post
• Amazon The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal eBook: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
• Amazon: The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance eBook: Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy
• Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live: Tony Schwartz
• No Vacation Nation
• List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Are you a ‘work martyr’? – The Washington Post
• Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life: Tom Rath: 9781939714039: Amazon
• The 2-Hour Vacation: Let Go and Relax, Reduce Stress & Anxiety, Gain Inner Peace, and Happiness: Sage Wilcox: 9781945290015: Amazon
• Top five regrets of the dying | Life and style | The Guardian
• Dopamine and performance in a reinforcement learning task: evidence from Parkinson’s disease
• Match Your Motivational Tactic to the Situation
• Counteractive Self-Control.pdf
• fishbach_2010_counteractive_evaluation.pdf
• Why You Need To Stop Thinking You Are Too Busy To Take Breaks | Fast Company
• Digital Sabbath – Feld Thoughts
• Michelle Gielan – Founder, Institute for Applied Positive Research
• 1 in 3 Americans Has $0 Saved for Retirement | GOBankingRates
• 27 Ugly Truths About Retirement – NASDAQ.com
• New study reveals fun at work can boost productivity and reduce sick days…but exposes clear age gap in today’s workforce | Onrec
• Annual vacation: Duration of relief from job stessors and burnout. (PDF Download Available)
• The impact of vacation and job stress on burnout and absenteeism. – PubMed – NCBI
• Effects of Workplace Fun on Employee Behaviors
• Presenteeism: At Work—But Out of It
• Health, Absence, Disability, and Presenteeism Cost Estimates of Certain Physical and Mental Health Conditions Affecting U.S. Employers
• Health, Absence, Disability, and Presenteeism Cost Estimates of Certain Physical and Mental Health Conditions Affecting U.S. Employers — Johns Hopkins University
• Pharmaceuticals and Worker Productivity Loss: A Critical Rev… : Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• The Benefits of Fun in the Workplace | Article Weekly
• Employee Engagement | Gallup
• Do Employees Really Know What’s Expected of Them? | Gallup
• Why Fun at Work Matters | Monster.com
• Why Fun at Work Matters | Monster.com
• Five Ways to Have More Workplace Fun – Great Place To Work United States
• 5 Reasons to Work at a Great Workplace – Great Place To Work United States
• Is FOMO depriving us of our ability to exist in the present and take pleasure in the here and now? | The Independent
• Dopamine regulates the motivation to act, study shows — ScienceDaily
• The Mysterious Motivational Functions of Mesolimbic Dopamine: Neuron
• Happiness and Productivity – OswaldProtoSgroi2014
• The role of dopamine in learning, memory, and performance of a water escape task.pdf
• Spillover Between Marital Quality and Job Satisfaction: Long-Term Patterns and Gender Differences – Rogers – 2003 – Journal of Marriage and Family – Wiley Online Library
• Oxytocin: Facts About the ‘Cuddle Hormone’
• Oxytocin increases trust in humans : Abstract : Nature
• Warm partner contact is related to lower cardiovascular reactivity. – PubMed – NCBI
• French employees can legally ignore work emails outside of office hours – The Washington Post
• Can ‘They’ Be Accepted as a Singular Pronoun? – WSJ
• The Washington Post Style Guide Now Accepts Singular ‘They’ | Mental Floss
• 12 Jaw-Dropping Stats About Retirement | Fox Business
• 10 Retirement Statistics That Will Scare the Crap Out of You
• Feel like a fraud?
• Why 70% of Millennials Have Impostor Syndrome
• Unhappy Employees Outnumber Happy Ones By Two To One Worldwide
• Nearly Three-Fourths of US Workers in Their 30s Want a Career Change, Reveals University of Phoenix Survey
• Gallup Daily: U.S. Job Market | Gallup
• The 2016 Retirement Confidence Survey: Worker Confidence Stable, Retiree Confidence Continues to Increase
• The 2015 Retirement Confidence Survey: Having a Retirement Savings Plan a Key Factor in Americans’ Retirement Confidence
• Discover A Better Way of Working | The Energy Project
• The-Human-Era-at-Work.pdf
• LinkedIn Employees + LinkedIn for Good InDay = InSpired Impact | Official LinkedIn Blog
• How many times did President Barack Obama play golf while in office?