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BoredLess Playful work design to improve employee engagement and retention.

I have such a love/hate relationship with April Fools’ Day.A) Should it be Fool’s or Fools’ (there are multiple fools in...
04/01/2026

I have such a love/hate relationship with April Fools’ Day.

A) Should it be Fool’s or Fools’ (there are multiple fools involved, so I vote the second...)

2) I LOVE big brand jokes today - a tease, a lighthearted prank... no one is hurt by thinking that KFC will sell toothpaste or Tic-Tac will make a Dr Pepper flavor for 45 seconds. It’s the absurdity that I can lean into! (PLEASE send me any good ones you find!)

iii) I can’t stand personal pranks. If I believe, even for a few moments, that someone I know/love has been injured, that sets my nervous system into a tailspin that’s difficult to overcome! Even positive pranks, since the happiness is subsequently rescinded, set me off for hours.

So I never know how to feel about today. I will spend the next 12-18 hours second-guessing every single thing I read today. But I also don’t want to go on media lockdown because of how funny I usually think the big brand jokes are. Sigh...

(gratitude moment: this is my biggest concern today, sheeeeeesh, what a charmed life)

ps, in my “research” for this post, scrolling through last year’s brand jokes - a lot of them seem like they could be in market...
photo description: Dr Pepper Tic-Tacs from their instagram last year. ALSO, I’m realizing that these brands would have probably engaged in Worst First Brainstorming to come up with these ideas! And if you’ve worked with me, you know that we often find good ideas in the unhinged ones....
so give that a shot for yourself today, not necessarily in the name of AFDay but in the name of creativity!

I got to add two pins to my map of where my card decks have been delivered! (It’s a month overdue for the new states, bu...
02/16/2026

I got to add two pins to my map of where my card decks have been delivered! (It’s a month overdue for the new states, but here we are)

The Broadmoor in March? yes please.To learn about boosting individual and organizational wellness? YES please. And I get...
12/10/2025

The Broadmoor in March? yes please.
To learn about boosting individual and organizational wellness? YES please.
And I get to SPEAK? YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU KINDLY.

Will I see you there?



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pic description: A conference promo graphic for the 36th Annual Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference. It features the Wellness Alliance and conference logos at the top. The headline reads “Featured Speaker” with Acey Holmes of BoredLess listed below. The session title is “The Neuroscience of Play and Flow: Practical Tools for Whole-Person Well-Being,” scheduled for March 26, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:05 PM. On the right is a circular photo of Acey smiling, wearing a bright magenta vest over a white top. The BoredLess Playful Work Design logo and a registration link appear at the bottom.

I got to add new push pins to my map! Blue (and green!) pins are in states where my decks have been delivered. I added o...
11/05/2025

I got to add new push pins to my map!
Blue (and green!) pins are in states where my decks have been delivered.
I added one to Oregon last week. Two separate orders both headed northwest! I need to figure out how to represent the Netherlands!

The Playful Breaks card deck would make a great holiday present. In fact one of those Oregon orders was from a mom to her adult daughter to combat the upcoming cold, dark PNW winter!

Order one for a family member, colleague, or friend! Let’s see if I can fill in my map! Know anyone in Alaska, Hawaii, or beyond?

Can you guess what the yellow pushpins are? And the one red pushpin?

10/31/2025

Do you work at a haunted house?

Do you have a corkboard? what’s on yours?
10/31/2025

Do you have a corkboard?

what’s on yours?

This sign cracks me up every time I see it. this counts as marketing, huh? An oval pizza???? Pi not 🟰 🚫 oval🤣🤣🤣
09/05/2025

This sign cracks me up every time I see it.

this counts as marketing, huh?
An oval pizza????
Pi not 🟰 🚫 oval

🤣🤣🤣

Volunteered yesterday Really incredible event. Drive up from castle rock to work the morning shift … was REALLY sorry ...
07/27/2025

Volunteered yesterday
Really incredible event. Drive up from castle rock to work the morning shift … was REALLY sorry to hear that only five volunteers were there for cleanup. I can only imagine how tough that was

I love the word unhinged. I also love this new tool I found on Google (used it yesterday for culture and community - spo...
07/17/2025

I love the word unhinged.

I also love this new tool I found on Google (used it yesterday for culture and community - spoiler)

Yesterday, I had my quarterly meeting scheduled with my accountabilibuddy. Last week, I had been dreading it (not becaus...
07/11/2025

Yesterday, I had my quarterly meeting scheduled with my accountabilibuddy. Last week, I had been dreading it (not because for fear of judgment from Amy at all) but because of the stories I was telling myself about the current state of my business. I was all in my feels and getting tired of it so I decided to water my plants (you know because taking a break and nature and all that)

I have this monstera (I think) that has been pretty hardy for five years (yes they are COVID plants, no one is shocked). But last month I broke it. It was drooping a lot. One of the stems hadn’t grown leaves in over a year. So I tried to rearrange it and just snapped one of the stems right off. The leaves on that stem started yellowing off and falling off. I was devastated. But I kept watering it because there were still some leaves and throwing away a plant is not exactly an ADHD brain’s priority.

A few weeks ago, the stem that hadn’t been growing leaves STARTED SPROUTING! And the other stem stopped losing leaves!

Then I considered my Pilea plant. Another drooper! It had grown pretty straight up for several years and last fall, one of the major stems started drooping, then proceeded to become the most proliferate (?) stem in the plant!

So these days, I’m viewing my business as a plant. I’ll just keep watering. (If yall have any of those cool artistic representations of growth being wild and not linear, please share them with me!)

Soloprenuership is hard, yall.

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If anyone is interested in being a leaf in the BoredLess plant, let’s go! That might mean bringing me into your org for a culture audit or a workshop on the neuroscience of play. Or maybe you know someone looking for a professional speaker on topics like motivation, leadership, or resilience, ai can bring them all through the lens of play. Let’s grow something good together.

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