Life Is Good

Best known for Jake, their optimistic stick-figure mascot, Life is Good founders Bert and John Jacobs (pictured above) grew up in my hometown. They hail from a large raucous family who, after gathering nightly at the dinner table, would be asked by their mother, "tell me something good that happened today."

Yes, we all have work to do. Yes, we are all spinning far too many plates. But perhaps, more than ever these days, we need to keep an eye out for the fun.

“Having fun at work is not a diversion from productivity. In fact, it’s an essential ingredient to staying loose, open, creative, and solution-oriented. Fun makes for easy lifting. You can have strong ideas, great products, and a brilliant team—but fun is the grease on the chain that keeps the whole bike rolling.” 
― Bert Jacobs, Life is Good: The Book