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There is no magic pill to achieve happiness at work”, says Jim Weinstein, a career adviser in Washington DC who has been assisting people deal with workplace challenges for many years. As a career development counselor in DC, he has observed that nearly everyone has had a horrible job at some point. According to him, when you are dejected at work, you tend to feel sorry for yourself & that’s understandable.
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There is no magic pill to achieve happiness at work”, says Jim Weinstein, a career adviser in Washington DC who has been assisting people deal with workplace challenges for many years. As a career development counselor in DC, he has observed that nearly everyone has had a horrible job at some point.
According to Jim Weinstein, when you are dejected at work, you tend to feel sorry for yourself & that’s understandable. But there is a lot more than you think you can do to relieve your misery. If you have been dragging yourselves to work every day, Mr. Weinstein has some great advice for you to make your job better.
This third installment of suggestions on improving your job focuses on things that will enable you to experience the job as it is more positively, as opposed to changing aspects of it. The ideas below are primarily from the Positive Psychology movement, a paradigm that stresses increasing the focus on positive aspects of life rather than emphasizing discovering the causes of negativity, as much of psychology has traditionally done.
1. The Three Things List: At the end of every work day, write down (by hand rather than type)* three things that went well at work that day. 2. Reframing If something bad, or even mildly annoying, happens to you on the job try thinking about how that might represent an opportunity. 3. Practicing strengths Make a list of five of your greatest strengths. These could range from clearly job-related ones to more broadly applicable ones.
4. Identify ways in which the work you do isbeneficial to others Even if you feel that you’re just a cog in a gigantic bureaucratic wheel, you are making a contribution to some outcome that will positively impact a group of people. Think about (and then write about) that impact. 5. ABCDE A. ACTUAL event (what happened?) B. BELIEF (what does it mean?) C, CONSEQUENT FEELING (how does holding that belief make you feel?) D. DISPUTE THE BELIEF (what evidence is there that your belief could be wrong or too narrow?) E. EFFECT (what is the effect of disputing the belief; how do you now feel?)
