Module 11 choose to be happy. Ultimately, the most important thing we can do to promote happiness at work is to choose to be happy. We will all face difficulties in situations, but we choose how we react to them. We can choose to be miserable or choose to be happy. By practicing positivity and otherwise choosing happiness, we go a long way toward fostering happiness and contentment in our work lives and our whole lives. Happiness is a choice.
Happiness is a choice we choose every day whether we will be happy or not. We may have unhappy angry are difficult moments, but overall, we choose whether we will focus on the positive and stay happy. When we choose to be happy. We focus on the good in our lives, including our work lives. make a conscious choice that you will be happy in your workplace and act on it beside what you need to do to be happy, even if that means taking other work and do it. Know that from moment to moment you can choose to be happy or choose to be miserable.
Choose your stress response. One of the things that undermines happiness is stress. We cannot choose whether we will have stress in our lives though we can limit it. However, we can choose our stress response. We can choose responses like anger or panic which will make us negative and unhappy. Or we can choose positive responses, such as focusing on solutions, taking a timeout or even sleeping on a stressful decision.
Explore different stress responses and choose some that help you stay focused. Not giving into a negative stress response will help you stay happier and healthier. Learning to navigate stress in a positive way will lead to greater workplace happiness as well. stressful situations will always arise but when we choose a positive response, we can emerge from those situations with our happiness intact. Do one thing every day that you love and enjoy taking time each day to do one thing you love and enjoy goes a long way toward fostering happiness. Whether you do yoga in the morning, drink a cup of your favorite tea.
Visit a funny website or engage in a rewarding hobby. finding something you love and making time to do it is key to your well being. It is not even necessary to do the thing you love in the context of work, just knowing it will be part of your day Foster's happiness. When we don't take time to do things we love, our lives become a series of obligations, taking time to engage in something you love and enjoy activates parts of your brain associated with joy and pleasure. And this fosters an overall sense of mental and emotional well being. Seek to make positive changes.
Happiness is a process even when we decide to choose happiness, it won't happen overnight. Seek to continuously make positive changes in your life and you will find your happiness growing. Whether it's implementing the suggestions from this course such as a nightly routine, or doing something you love each day, or you seek to make wider changes such as eating more healthfully or limiting your interactions with negative people. every step you take towards a more positive life leads to greater happiness. Adopt a continuous improvement mindset and constant Look for ways in which you can make positive changes. Also reward yourself for making changes.
Happiness is a journey. Module 12 wrapping up. Although this workshop is coming to a close, we hope that your journey to being happy at work is just beginning. Please take a moment to review and update your action plan. This will be a key tool to guide your progress in the days, weeks, months and years to come. We wish you the best of luck on the rest of your travels.
Where it's from the wise, Richard Bach. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Andy Rooney happiness depends more on how life strikes you then on what happens. Sidney J. Harris, happiness is a direction not a place. Listen to Williams. People let their own hangups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.