How To Be Happy At Work


You probably like your work, but you’re not happy. It could be because of your co-workers or management, or you feel like you’re not getting paid enough.

Whatever the reason, if you want to make a career out of your job, then you need to figure out how to be happy in the workplace. Here are a few different tips you can try out:

1. Maintain a healthy work-life balance

As the saying goes, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Learn to put boundaries in place.

When your life is tied to your job and you find yourself thinking about your job on days when you’re not working, then it’s time to take a step back.

How’s your social life? Your family life? You really don’t want to ignore family and friends because of work. You might think you’re doing it for a noble cause, but it could bite you in the back one day.

You could be earning good money, but if your health and your relationships are at stake, then you need to assess if you’re willing to give everything up for money.

I don’t know about the company you’re working for, but at the end of the day, remember that you’re working for a business.

Remember, no matter how good you are at work, you’re not irreplaceable.

2. Stay away from office drama and office politics

Some may say engaging and using office politics to your advantage is a good idea. Of course, not everyone is going to agree.

Gossip, office drama and office politics are morale killers, they strain relationships and affect everyone’s productivity.

You got hired to do a certain job. Do your job to the best of your abilities and stay away from backbiters, gossipers and downers in the office.

At the end of the day, you’re getting paid to do your job. There’s no point wasting your time dealing with negative people, it’s only going to make you unhappy.

3. Build meaningful relationships with co-workers

You probably spend almost half your day in the workplace. To make it more bearable and less stressful, you should build meaningful relationships with your co-workers.

Hang out with them on your days off, get to know them on a personal level.

Once you’ve spent enough time with them, you’ll recognize who the keepers are and who you should stay away from.

Choose the right kind of friends and you’ll end up happier at work.

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Use Positive Affirmations to Commit to Work-Life Balance


Having a positive outlook on life benefits your mood and greatly reduces stress levels.

You have to use positive affirmations to lighten your mood and initiate positivity into your life, both in the workplace and in your personal life.

Using positive affirmations will help you achieve your goals faster by making you believe you’re capable.

Positive affirmations are things you say to yourself to highlight your belief in achieving your goals and how you want to change to make your life better.

You can say things that reassure you that you’re doing well in life, if you feel like everything’s going well but you just need a confidence boost. You should tell yourself that you are capable, confident, happy, beautiful, talented, blessed, or whatever else you want to see yourself as. 
 
For a better work life, you should reassure yourself of your capabilities and ability to succeed.

For example, tell yourself, “I am avoiding distractions so I can complete my work tasks and get home on time.”

Saying these phrases to yourself makes you feel more accountable for your actions, because if you don’t complete what you want, you’ll feel like you let yourself down. That makes you more likely to complete the goal you want to achieve.
 
To enhance positivity in your personal life, you should affirm yourself of any personal goals you have like spending more time with your family, weight loss, stress relief, time management, or maintaining your health.

Tell yourself how you’re going to change and how great you’ll feel after you make those changes.

Doing this makes you feel like you’re bringing your goals to life and lets you feel like you’ve already accomplished them, which will make you want to work on them more.
 
Using positive affirmations will make your life better by creating a peaceful, serene mindset.

Telling yourself how life will improve after you make changes will make you more inclined to strive to see results, whether you focus on issues you have in your personal or work life.

Using these methods will also help you achieve a good work-life balance by letting you get things done with work that you otherwise would’ve spent too long on, like getting distracted while working.

This will help you achieve a healthy balance and let you spend more time doing things you love instead of always being so focused on your work.



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Ways to Improve Your Energy Now
by: Helene

Many men and women of all ages become drained of energy with aging and stress from work. Most energy-gaining techniques take weeks or months to see progress.

Because of this, if you’re busy and completely exhausted, you’ll probably tell yourself that you’ll recover later because it won’t even be worth it to start trying to gain your energy back if you won’t see instant results.

However, there are a few ways that you can instantly gain your energy back without waiting.

These five easy methods will help you see immediate results and will contribute to a healthier, better life.

Change the Lighting 

Sometimes you might want to decrease the amount of light around you to try to prevent eye strain or headaches. While being in darker lighting is good for those reasons, it can lead to fatigue.

Darkness is essential for sleeping. Because of this, your body naturally associates being in a dark room with sleeping.


This will cause your body to start becoming tired and start producing melatonin, the hormone that makes you sleepy.

If you’re trying to work in a dark room, you’ll become less focused because your body is telling you that you should be sleeping, not working. Try surrounding yourself with light. Light will help you become more energized because it will wake you up instead of making you tired.

Refrain from getting LED lights and fluorescent lights, because they do more harm than good when it comes to energy.

Both types of lights are deficient in the wavelengths that are in the sunlight, which your body is already adapted to.

These lights are often a blueish tone. Blue light is damaging to your eyesight, as well as your energy, because it stifles your ability to produce melatonin at night.

This will decrease the amount of sleep you get, which will cause you to have no energy during the day.

Instead, you should try to limit your light sources to natural sunlight and incandescent lights.

Incandescent lights aren’t damaging to your body, because they replicate sunlight and aren’t only compiled of blue light.

Natural sunlight is great because our bodies have been used to it since the beginning of life, so it definitely will not decrease your energy levels.

It can also help you sleep easier, because once the sun goes down and your room at home is dark, you’ll start becoming tired - whereas if you keep lights on all night, you might mess up your sleep cycle.

You may work in a place where you’re exposed to blue light constantly, and you can’t change it.

Try opening windows or going outside to increase your intake of sunlight. If you can’t do either of those, purchase some blue light glasses.

These types of glasses filter out any unhealthy blue light that you’re exposed to, saving you from losing sleep and suffering from eye strain. Increase your energy by not letting yourself stay in a dark environment all day.

Immerse yourself in light - just not the unhealthy kind. Decrease exposure to blue light as much as possible to refrain from straining your eyes and disrupting your melatonin production.

Have an Acupuncture Session 

Pain and negativity are both things that can often unknowingly drain your energy. Constantly being in pain will cause you to become physically stressed and tense, using energy from your muscles.

Being surrounded by constant negative energy will also drain you because it will cause your mood to worsen, as well as your mental health and wellbeing. You should have an acupuncture session in order to rid yourself of these things that are dragging your energy down.

If you’re unaware of what an acupuncture session is, it’s a traditional Chinese medical procedure that involves fine, slim needles being stuck into the skin.

It may sound painful because of the involvement of needles, however they’re so thin that the needles will most likely not hurt you at all. 

Acupuncture is said to have multiple beneficial effects on your body, including helping the immune, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, and digestive systems. Because of this, acupuncture helps resolve pain that you may be experiencing due to issues in any of these systems.

Its benefits and boosts to the immune system will also help ensure that you don’t get sick as often, which could be another source of your energy drain.

On top of alleviating pain, it can also raise the production of serotonin, which is one of the chemicals that helps you sleep well.

Sleep is extremely beneficial to your energy levels, and it’s important to not be in pain while sleeping as well as producing enough sleep chemicals to get you through the night without constantly waking up due to disruptions. 

There are also certain acupuncture points that relieve stress, anxious energy, and specific pain points.

It also modifies your body’s hormones in order to improve the brain’s energy and mood, which will help decrease negative energy and the physical energy loss that comes along with it. 

Talk to your acupuncturist about what kind of symptoms you’re having - energy loss, stress, sadness, anxiety, and any physical pain you may be experiencing.

Ask them to modify the session to your needs so that you’ll be left feeling energized, pain free, and separated from any negative energy you were dealing with before you came in.

Acupuncture is a great, pain free way to eliminate negativity and relieve pain in your body to keep it from increasing production of beneficial hormones and stimulating your body’s main systems.

There are many different acupuncture points that will benefit your personal needs and leave you feeling more energized overall.

Get a Massage 

Self-care is one of the most important things for you to do in order to remain stress-free. Getting a relaxing massage is a very common form of self-care, but many people don’t know that it can actually boost your energy, not just relax you. 

One great aspect of getting a massage is the environment you’ll be in. You’ll be forced to slow down and live in the moment, and you’ll be in a place where you can put off thinking about stressful things such as work, chores, etc.

All you have to do is relax. This will help slow your mind and make you feel less stressed out, which will help you gain energy. Stress is a huge cause of energy loss for many people.

Your mental health will also improve, because massages lower your anxiety levels. They also raise endorphins, which are the natural chemicals in your body that cause you to feel good and be happy.

This will help improve your energy as well, because being in a negative state of mind is just as draining as physical unwellness. Massages, along with mental stress, relieve physical stress as well.

Massages are done specifically to relieve tense muscles that usually come with large amounts of stress. This will rid you of any physical pain you may have been dealing with due to stress, and your muscles will stop using up so much of your energy from being constantly tensed up.

Your sleep cycle will also improve when you get a massage. Since your muscles will be healed of physical stress and pain, you won’t have to try to get to sleep while being disrupted by constant agony.

They also increase the production of serotonin and melatonin, which play a huge role in helping you sleep all night without being woken up due to stress or pain.

You will most likely feel sleepy right after your massage, but you will be more energized than ever once you wake up. 

Massages will also help improve your circulation. This is necessary for the proper distribution of oxygen to your body’s cells.

If oxygen can’t get through to all of your cells, they will not be able to produce a sustainable amount of energy for your body to feed off of. 

Getting a massage is a great way for you to take care of your body and relieve any mental or physical stress that is ruining your energy levels.

Massages will help you relax and leave all of your energy-draining pain and stress behind.

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