“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.”

You have the power to make life-improving changes.

When you help someone, you feel a greater connection to your community. Learning to focus your attention on tasks that demand your highest level of skill and attention also gives you a deep sense of satisfaction.

Choose settings and activities that help you feel happy.

“Learning is fun. It can transfer routine work into a continuing adventure. And constant learners tend to be interesting to other people.”

Keep learning.

Three issues which form an “Engagement Triangle”:<ul><li>A well-honed sense of purpose – Work is more enjoyable and engaging when you feel part of something meaningful. </li><li>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.</li></ul>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.”

Feel happier at work by pursuing the “Engagement Triangle.”

“Any busy workers, even those in lively offices, may drift into loneliness without noticing that it’s happening.”

Cultivate a diverse array of relationships.

The method comprises four steps:<ol><li>“Develop a vision” – Consider your ideal life and career and what big goals might help get you there.</li><li>“Identify micro-goals” – Break each big goal into specific, actionable small goals. If you want to get physically fit, for example, you might set a micro-goal of walking for 20 minutes a couple of times per week.</li><li>“Commit to sugar grains” – Plan out tiny actions that support each micro-goal, such as buying new walking shoes.</li><li>“Record your grains” – Keep track of your progress. Evidence of your successes keeps you moving forward.</li></ol>

Start small to make headway on big changes, and celebrate little wins.

Shift your existing habits to more productive ones. Forming a new habit is a three-step process:<ul><li>Cue – This is the prompt for the new behavior you want to turn into a habit. It might be an alarm on your phone or a physical reminder, such as leaving your walking shoes near your front door.</li><li>Routine – This is the action you take in response to the cue – the new habit itself.</li><li>Reward – This generates a sense of pleasure about your new habit. Pausing to reflect on how doing the new habit makes you feel can create this sensation.</li></ul>

Fine-tune your habits to improve your life.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">You have the power to make life-improving changes.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Feel happier at work by pursuing the “Engagement Triangle.”</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Self-care, healthy habits and mindfulness boost your well-being. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Start small to make headway on big changes, and celebrate little wins.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Fine-tune your habits to improve your life.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Choose settings and engage in activities that help you feel happy.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Keep learning.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Cultivate a diverse array of relationships.</li></ul>

Find Your Happy at Work

50 Ways to Get Unstuck, Move Past Boredom, and Discover Fulfillment

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. This book will provide encouragement, inspiration, and useful advice for those who want to be happy in their work, and throughout their lives.

mindfulness

Mindfulness

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: <ul><li>A simple model for creating career engagement that will improve your performance at work and help you develop deeper relationships with others.</li><li>Techniques for addressing workplace challenges like difficult colleagues, boring tasks, daunting projects, and gloomy environments.</li><li>Strategies for strengthening your network, building expertise, and laying other groundwork for a resilient career.</li></ul> This book will provide encouragement, inspiration, and useful advice for those who want to be happy in their work, and throughout their lives.

Beverly E. Jones is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Beverly E. Jones has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Beverly E. Jones's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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