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About Find Your Happy at Work Book
If you hate your job and want change, the starting point is with you! Get unstuck, move past boredom, and discover how to flourish at work. This book is for anyone stuck in a rut, burned out, or just plain tired.
Has your career plateaued? Do you sometimes dread starting work? Are you bogged down by frustration, tedium, loneliness, or uncertainty? There’s hope.
Find Your Happy at Work, the latest book by acclaimed executive coach Beverly Jones, gives you a road map to quickly create more joy and meaning in your work, even if you don’t love your job.
Yes, aspects of your career are beyond your control. But Jones says you have more power than you realize. Throughout 50 fast-paced chapters, Find Your Happy at Work offers practical strategies to help you feel more enthusiastic and gratified on the job, whether from in the office or from home. These include:
- A simple model for creating career engagement that will improve your performance at work and help you develop deeper relationships with others.
- Techniques for addressing workplace challenges like difficult colleagues, boring tasks, daunting projects, and gloomy environments.
- Strategies for strengthening your network, building expertise, and laying other groundwork for a resilient career.
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Feeling stuck in a rut at work? According to executive coach Beverly Jones, even if you don’t love what you do, you can find meaning and happiness in your career
Key Takeaways
- You have the power to make life-improving changes.
- Feel happier at work by pursuing the “Engagement Triangle.”
- Self-care, healthy habits and mindfulness boost your well-being.
- Start small to make headway on big changes, and celebrate little wins.
- Fine-tune your habits to improve your life.
- Choose settings and engage in activities that help you feel happy.
- Keep learning.
- Cultivate a diverse array of relationships.
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Feeling Happy At Your Job
You have the power to make life-improving changes.
More than half of American workers feel stressed and frustrated by or stuck in their present jobs. This stands in stark contrast to the one-third of workers who feel engaged and are happy, energized and purposeful at work. If you identify more with the former than the latter group, know that, even if you don’t see a way out of your current situation, you can make practical changes to improve your work-life without changing jobs or career – specifically, changes to your perspective, skills, approach to life, mental acuity and health.
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Happiness and success are similar in that you can’t pursue either directly. Each seems to emerge as a consequence of the way you manage yourself and your activities.
BEVERLY JONES
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50 Ways to Get Unstuck, Move Past Boredom, and Discover Fulfillment
Find Your Happy at Work
- You have the power to make life-improving changes.
- Feel happier at work by pursuing the “Engagement Triangle.”
- Self-care, healthy habits and mindfulness boost your well-being.
- Start small to make headway on big changes, and celebrate little wins.
- Fine-tune your habits to improve your life.
- Choose settings and engage in activities that help you feel happy.
- Keep learning.
- Cultivate a diverse array of relationships.
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You have the power to make life-improving changes.
“Happiness and success are similar in that you can’t pursue either directly. Each seems to emerge as a consequence of the way you manage yourself and your activities.”
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Feel happier at work by pursuing the “Engagement Triangle.”
Three issues which form an “Engagement Triangle”:
- A well-honed sense of purpose – Work is more enjoyable and engaging when you feel part of something meaningful.
- Positive relationships with the people in your job-related sphere – When you feel strong, friendly ties to the people with whom you work, you feel happier and more engaged.
Your performance, or how you approach your work – When your work makes the most of your strengths and provides learning challenges, you experience greater job satisfaction.
“The Engagement Triangle can help you plan your good days and feel better on your bad days.”
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