August 29, 2023
Can a Few Actions Make You Happier at Work?
Some people pursue happiness at work, others create it!
Making a change in your people will help them make a change in your business!
According to various studies, happier people are healthier and more creative, energetic, productive, resilient, cooperative, social, and engaged at work. You will do better work if you are happier! A variety of intentional activities can boost your happiness. Start by picking 2-3 techniques that sound like the best fit for you, and focus on doing more of those. Gratitude: Recent studies suggest that gratitude is linked to well-being and happiness. Grateful people are happier, healthier, and optimistic and are able to cope positively with challenges. Each day think about 3 good things that happened to you at the office by focusing your attention on positive things, this can significantly impact your happiness.
Manage Stress: Science tells us that how we cope with stress has a huge effect on our well-being. Effective coping stress strategies at work include physical exercise, connecting with a friend, mindfulness meditation, and viewing stress as energizing. Try to avoid fear, over-thinking, obsessing about choices, and excessively comparing yourself to others.
Practice Kindness: Offer a helping hand to coworkers and passersby. This might be carpooling to work in the morning, forgiving others, being kind to colleagues, or expressing gratitude to coworkers. Research shows that acts of kindness are a powerful way to increase your own happiness. It helps you build more positivity around you especially at work.
Find Meaning: In order to make life and work more enjoyable regardless of your circumstances, you need to actively seek and create meaning and pleasure in whatever you are doing because creating the right conditions in life or at work lies within you. When you find better ways to craft your work to give you more meaning and connection, you thrive.
Focus on Progress: Progress toward clear and meaningful goals fuels happiness. If we savor and celebrate our progress, we can get much more happiness from that progress than the occasional completion of a major goal.
Get into Flow: When we focus completely with no multi-tasking for 20 minutes or more on a task that is challenging but possible, we end up in a state called flow. When we are in flow, we feel revitalized. Many of us think multi-tasking is a sign of being good at your job, but it turns out it is usually making us less effective and takes us out of flow.
Emerge is dedicated to promoting happiness at work and believes that it plays a vital role in both the personal and organizational growth. If you want to understand how to start driving happiness in your organization, feel free to contact us Together, let’s inspire a new era of leadership that prioritizes happiness and unlocks unparalleled success.
Linda Chaccour – Founder Emerge