Are you having fun at work? "Fun," you say. "What is that?" Yet, as our workplaces become stressed, it is even more important to develop ways to add fun to your work. After all, you spend the majority of your life there.

Here are some ideas from past clients. See if any of them will work for you.

1. Keep your favorite one-liner joke book or cartoon strip book at your desk. Take short "fun breaks" to look at them. Of course, you can also open your e-mail and read some of the fun forwards from your friends, too.

2. Start a humor/fun group. Meet at lunch to trade jokes and funny stories.

3. A manager in a government agency organized a hallway bowling tournament and called a half hour break for everyone to take turns participating while others covered the phones.

4. Have a contest for the funniest cartoon. Encourage people to bring in cartoons for a week or two, post them, and form a committee to judge them. Award small prizes like movie passes to the winner.

5. Hold two minute parades. Start a parade down the hall. Wind through the offices and cubicles, the aisles of your store, or the lobby of your building. Carry a portable stereo and encourage everyone to join in.

6. Name rooms, cubicles or halls after people. (It can change weekly or monthly.) Make up funny names for the rooms.

6. Have an employee talent show during work hours like lunch time, if possible. If not, try after-hours at a celebration of something like, "We reached the end of the week."

7. Cover someone's work area with balloons for no reason at all.

8. Award a Mr. Potato Head figure to the person who handled the most difficult customer that week.

9. Start a "fun committee" to come up with ideas to make the office a fun place to work at.

Send me your ideas and I will share them in my ezine!