Monday tip Five things that made you happy at work today - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Monday tip Five things that made you happy at work today - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog This monday tip is about reminding yourself whats good about your job. Your monday mission: Today before you go home, grab a piece of paper and write down five things that made you happy at work today. Big or small, doesnt matter, as long as it made your day a little better. Meat loaf day at the cafeteria. Making a deadline. Talking to a co-worker. Anything. Make the list just before you leave work. If you cant come up with five items for the list, thats fine, write down as many as you can. If you cant think of a single one, then either its been a bad day, or its time to look for a new job :o) Why is this a good thing? Well, lets say youve had ten good experiences at work today and one bad one. If you go home, thinking only of the bad one, you will remember this as a bad day. It will even feel as a bad day. And most people do have a tendency to remember negative experiences better than positive ones. This makes it a good idea to take extra care to remember good experiences, eg. by writing them down. The Chief Happiness Officers monday tips are simple, easy, fun things you can do to make yourself and others happy at work and get the work-week off to a great start. Something everyone can do in five minutes, tops. When you try it, write a comment here to tell me how it went. Previous monday tips. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related