Do What You Love And Love What You Do
Today in one of my classes we were watching a TED talk by Shawn Achor titled The Happy Secret To Better Work. This inspired me to write a blog today that is a little different then what I have been doing. This talk challenged me to think a lot about my own life and how I measure success in the work place, or even at school.
This video mentioned that the typical process we go through is working hard at our daily tasks, which leads to success which then leads to happiness. Shawn mentions that this doesn't work because once we reach that state of happiness we then change our standards to be harder. For example if we were to work extra hard in school to get all A's and B's on our report card we would be happy once we achieved that, but after we achieve it we would then set higher and harder standards for the next time for example getting all A's on the next report card. Because of this mind set that we always need to be getting better and better we stress ourselves out by creating unrealistic goals for ourselves which results in even more disappointment when we are unable to achieve the goals.
Shawn went on to say that the way to success in the workplace would be to have hard work and positivity together as one when trying to achieve tasks and that will bring you happiness. He brought up a good point when talking about this, often times at work, and even at school, leaders emphasize negative aspects such as not reaching sales numbers, or not doing well enough on a test or assignment. What we need those leaders to focus on is what is happening well in the organization. The people that are exceeding their expectations and praise them for that in order to create an internal desirable position for everyone else in the organization.
If we could implement this into the organizations we are apart of now, we will be much more happy in the work place, we will enjoy our jobs much more and we will, be able to produce much more desirable results. This is something to think about as we are leaders in organizations here on campus, or even as we enter into the work force over the next couple months.
This video mentioned that the typical process we go through is working hard at our daily tasks, which leads to success which then leads to happiness. Shawn mentions that this doesn't work because once we reach that state of happiness we then change our standards to be harder. For example if we were to work extra hard in school to get all A's and B's on our report card we would be happy once we achieved that, but after we achieve it we would then set higher and harder standards for the next time for example getting all A's on the next report card. Because of this mind set that we always need to be getting better and better we stress ourselves out by creating unrealistic goals for ourselves which results in even more disappointment when we are unable to achieve the goals.
Shawn went on to say that the way to success in the workplace would be to have hard work and positivity together as one when trying to achieve tasks and that will bring you happiness. He brought up a good point when talking about this, often times at work, and even at school, leaders emphasize negative aspects such as not reaching sales numbers, or not doing well enough on a test or assignment. What we need those leaders to focus on is what is happening well in the organization. The people that are exceeding their expectations and praise them for that in order to create an internal desirable position for everyone else in the organization.
If we could implement this into the organizations we are apart of now, we will be much more happy in the work place, we will enjoy our jobs much more and we will, be able to produce much more desirable results. This is something to think about as we are leaders in organizations here on campus, or even as we enter into the work force over the next couple months.
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