Businessweek has a fascinating article on based on a survey of How Adults Achieve Happiness by Marshall Goldsmith. It highlights a few things that we probably already know, and has a few surprises.
Biggest finding that was of interest to me? The key to a happy worker is an inside job. Those that are happiest at work are also happiest at home.
Read the article and tell me what you think.
DC
I was surprised by this paragraph:
One commonly expressed excuse for not getting more happiness and meaning out of life is: “I’m working too many hours.” But our results show that the number of hours worked had no significant correlation with happiness or meaning experienced at work or at home. So much for that excuse.
I seem to run into this “excuse” from other staff members. Time and time again I respond with “Stop looking at this as a job and think of it as a ministry and you will see a difference in the way you feel while you are here”. When we all go home to our “other” lives there shouldn’t be too much of a difference.
As John Pearson said in the coference, “If you’re not the same at work as you are at home then the chances are one of the places will be dysfunctional”. That was a huge statement for me and changed the way I looked at both. I have always known that happiness comes from within. God B w/U David for continually sharing great info with us all. Frank