Does Work Remind You of Kindergarten?
By: Soma Dey
Topic: Innovations at Work
Does work remind you of kindergarten? You need a shake-up from humdrumness, from habits (ideally those lousy ones), from snags. And that will be all about ‘Work innovation’.
Got a hiccup? Take a ‘caipirinha-copacabana’ break, keep calm and sense and read below.
** Do you smile at work! Sounds cliché? A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia reported that smiling activates the release of neuropeptides that work toward fighting overstress, also seeing an attractive smiling face activates your orbitofrontal cortex, and you feel happy. Smile makes you beautiful. The world is so phenomenal if you smile. All these are proven facts, scientists and spiritual teachers will agree.
** Do you say “thank you” everyday! Professor Francesca Gino of the Harvard Business School and Professor Adam Grant of the Wharton School mentioned “receiving expressions of gratitude makes us feel a heightened sense of self-worth, and that in turn triggers other helpful behaviors toward both the person we are helping and other people that are around us, too.” You would like to have such environment around your work, don’t you?
** Do you try to avoid gossip! Tittle-tattle in other people is like overindulge in dessert. You enjoy the moment but regret afterwards AND that affects your mind and body.
** Do you keep your body hydrated! I am not kidding, most of your headache at office is because you don’t drink ample amount of water! Ting!
** Do you control obsession! Obsession is mania which if you suffer from, is worrying really!
** Social work! Touch on some ‘Social work’ whenever you get a chance, even trivial. Be it for justice, human rights, development or even simple politeness/smile/gratitude to your driver or domestic help, try at least a single elementary one in a week (if not day) and see yourself stimulated. And there is really lot more to tip-off. For now this is it. That said as I mentioned in my other blogs, innovation is a shift of emphasis, a break with tradition, a change of direction; innovation at work would leave a mark most certainly. Innovation is significant; I think its happiness too.
Innovation is happiness.
