Today Was Fun<\/a>\u201d, Bree\u2019s radical, hopeful, and deeply human book about reclaiming our workdays\u2014and rediscovering what makes them matter.<\/p>\nThe Hidden Tragedy of the Modern Workday<\/p>\n
For many of us, weekdays have become a blur\u2014emails, meetings, deliverables\u2014rituals of productivity that leave us oddly disconnected from ourselves. Bree saw this not just as a cultural problem, but a personal one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lose days not just because we don\u2019t live long enough,\u201d she told me, \u201cwe lose days because we don\u2019t value them\u2014and we give them away to our companies while we\u2019re healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday Was Fun\u201d is her call to reverse that equation. Instead of seeing our work lives as something to tolerate until Friday, she asks: what if we actually designed our days to feel like they belonged to us?<\/p>\n
Why \u2018Fun\u2019 Isn\u2019t Frivolous\u2014It\u2019s a Strategy<\/p>\n
Using the word \u2019fun\u2019 in a business book is almost subversive. Bree knows it makes some people uncomfortable. \u201cFor some, it just does not compute,\u201d she said. \u201cThey think fun means off-sites or happy hours\u2014something flippant on the side of work.\u201d<\/p>\n
But her definition is deeper, and more urgent. \u201cWe so often neglect our own pleasure at work,\u201d she told me. \u201cThe notion of pleasure at work just sounds like\u2014what are you talking about? But I think that just goes to show how little we value our own experience of our working days.\u201d<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t about being unserious. It\u2019s about being fully human. Fun, for Bree, isn\u2019t escapism\u2014it\u2019s engagement. It\u2019s flow. It\u2019s doing work that excites you, with people who energize you. It\u2019s not a side benefit of good work\u2014it\u2019s often a sign that good work is happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like the word fun because it\u2019s irreverent, visceral\u2014and if you take it seriously, it pushes the boundaries of what our working experience should feel like.\u201d<\/p>\n
And in an age of automation and artificial intelligence, Bree believes fun is more than a feeling\u2014it\u2019s a competitive advantage. \u201cIf AI is coming to do a lot of the things you once felt were your professional identity,\u201d she said, \u201cthen the one and only move is to become more human\u2014and learn how to use your brain more expansively and creatively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today Was Fun Book Cover<\/p>\n
Bree GroffThe Ten-Minute Workday and Organizational Minimalism<\/p>\n
One of the most useful tools in Bree\u2019s book is a simple thought experiment: The Ten-Minute Workday. \u201cOf all the things on your plate, what\u2019s the one thing that you are uniquely good or valuable at?\u201d she asked. \u201cIf you start there, you\u2019re doing the whole 80\/20 rule.\u201d<\/p>\n
This kind of thinking shifts the entire mindset from busyness to clarity. Bree encourages readers to stop measuring productivity by the number of boxes checked, and instead, measure meaning. \u201cCan you get rid of anything that\u2019s not bringing you joy\u2014or frankly, bringing the business joy?\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a form of workday minimalism\u2014less about doing less for its own sake, and more about doing the right things with intention, skill, and care.<\/p>\n
No One Cares About Your Cholesterol But You<\/p>\n
For Bree, writing \u201cToday Was Fun\u201d wasn\u2019t just a creative exercise\u2014it was a recalibration of her own life. \u201cNo business or client is going to care about my cholesterol score,\u201d she told me. \u201cThat\u2019s up to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a story in the book that captures this perfectly. One night, she was rushing through a bedtime story with her young daughter\u2014flipping two pages at a time. Her daughter looked at her and said: \u201cYou\u2019re not doing your best.\u201d That moment hit hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI realized I was doing my best at work,\u201d Bree confessed. \u201cAnd my family was getting the leftovers.\u201d<\/p>\n
That line stayed with me. It\u2019s a truth so many high performers need to hear. Yes, you\u2019re showing up for work\u2014but are you showing up for your life?<\/p>\n
Becoming a High Performer\u2014for Yourself<\/p>\n
Since writing the book, Bree has made intentional changes to how she lives. \u201cThere\u2019s no coincidence I\u2019m in the best shape of my life now,\u201d she said with a smile. \u201cBecause the book kicked me into gear. I started being a high performer for myself, not just for a company.\u201d<\/p>\n
This idea\u2014that your energy, joy, and wellbeing matter just as much as your outputs\u2014is a theme that runs throughout the book. It\u2019s not anti-ambition. It\u2019s ambition, redefined.<\/p>\n
A Book Passed From Hand to Hand<\/p>\n
Her dream for the book is simple, and powerful. \u201cI hope it gets dog-eared and passed around offices. That would be amazing\u2014like an underground manual, some secret society of people saying, \u2018You have to read this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
And when I asked her what she wanted the book to do for readers, her answer was beautiful:<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they have better days more often. I hope someone picks up the book on a Monday and thinks, that was a day well spent of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Revolution Starts With One Good Day<\/p>\n
We\u2019re living in a moment of profound transformation in work culture. AI is reshaping industries. Burnout is reaching new heights. The future of work feels uncertain. And yet Bree Groff offers us something clear, grounded, and incredibly human: a reminder that work can feel good\u2014and that it should.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s not asking us to leave our jobs or burn it all down. She\u2019s asking something far more radical:<\/p>\n
Make today count.<\/p>\n
Because when the days are finite\u2014and they are\u2014you deserve to make as many of them fun as possible.<\/p>\n
Today Was Fun by Bree Groff is available now wherever books are sold. Learn more at breegroff.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It started in a waiting room. Bree Groff was sitting beside her mother in a cancer center\u2014overwhelmed, heartbroken,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-36405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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