Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Seven
Do something every day to get you closer to your dreams. I heard Oprah say this once and it struck my core. I, like many others, left college with these ideologies of what my career was going to be. Hmmm. Ten years later, I discovered what it was I was supposed to be doing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Six
Don’t move until you’ve thought it out all the way. It is imperative that you make smart decisions about the work you do. The day is gone that workers were hired and worked for the same company until they retired. We are not that generation and companies are not that committed. Arguably, competition has [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Five
Get real, you have bills to pay. So here’s the cycle. You start off life with whatever your parents gave you. At some point, you start working and you earn your own money. We begin the life of consumers and we consume. We partner with people and our interests are multiplied so we work [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Four
Set a goal. I have yet to work for a company that didn’t have some kind of contest going that was meant to improve morale (and sometimes performance). In an effort to engage employees and show them some perks, department heads create these challenges for their staff. Well, what keeps us from setting up [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Three
Change your approach. If you are not happy at work but you can’t simply walk out, take on a new perspective. No matter what it is you do for a living, there was something that interested you about the job. We all have choices when it comes to work regardless of your background. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day Two
Find a challenge. Chances are, you’ve been working there long enough that you see some things that need to be fixed. Maybe you realize that your experience at work could be better if someone gave some attention to a particular area, process, team or coworker. Well, what is keeping you from handling it yourself? [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Be Happy or Learn How to Maintain, Day One
Look for the silver lining AKA “make the best of it”. There have to be some things about what you do all day that interest you. It may be one or two of your twenty duties, your coworkers, interactions with a few clients that brighten your day or maybe it’s going out to lunch. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )time to be happy at work (1st of the series)
“Studies have shown that the majority of people hate their job. When you factor in eight hour days with the average lifespan, that means that an awful lot of people are spending something like 88,200 hours doing something they hate.” -(Bryan Alaspa) The article I read goes on to say that being happy at work [...]
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