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8 Steps to the Most Fun You’ve Every Had

Jen Eason
4 min readMar 19, 2020

You feel great, you’re having fun, you’re with friends, you’re being entertained, and when it’s all over, you have a lasting happy glow.

What happened?

Were you at a club? A party? A movie? A concert?

Well, actually you were… how do I put this… exercising.

Wait wait wait! Don’t go! Please please please please!

If you’re still here, great, and if you ran away, well, hopefully you got a little exercise doing so.

I’m not pretending to be an exercise specialist, but I’ve put a lot of time and effort into exercise. Did it start out with me ripping workouts out of my older sister’s 17 magazines so I could look like the pretty models? Yes, frankly. But I have a much healthier relationship with my body and exercise now, and you can too! All for $9.99!

But since you’ve stayed with me this long, I’ll give you a $9.99 discount, how about it?

To the point, Jen!

Yes.

Exercise. We should all be doing more of it right? But who wants to, right? My theory is that the main thing blocking most people from starting is just that they don’t know how. Do I just start running around the neighborhood like I’m gunning for the last laptop at a Black Friday sale? Do I just lift heavy things?

I’m here to alleviate some of your doubts. Again, I’m not a professional, but this is what I have learned from personal…

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Jen Eason
Jen Eason

Written by Jen Eason

UX researcher, gender abolitionist, and musical theater nerd bringing humanity into the workplace

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