The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Month: December 2006

  • Monday Tip: Who are your helping?

    The Chief Happiness Officer's monday tipsYour mission this monday is to ask yourself who you have been helping today.

    Before you leave work, take five minutes to sit down and write down a list of five ways you have contributed today. Five ways:

    • You have helped others today
    • You have made other people’s lives easier
    • You have made others happier at work

    It can be big things or small things. It can be helping co-workers, customers, business partners, suppliers or others.

    There are three reasons why it’s important to stop once in a while and remember who you’re helping:

    1. When you help someone, you obviously make the helpee feel good
    2. It also feels great to know that you are able to contribute.
    3. It helps you to find meaning in you
    4. job. Work is now about more than just doing your work – it’s about helping others and contributing to something other than just your own welfare.

    Do this exercise today and write a comment to tell us how it worked. If you liked it, repeat it every day this week to get a more complete picture of who you’re helping.

    The Chief Happiness Officer’s monday tips are simple, easy, fun things you can do to make yourself and others happy at work and get the work-week off to a great start. Something everyone can do in five minutes, tops. When you try it, write a comment here to tell me how it went.

    Previous monday tips.

  • My favorites

    Happy SprayJust so you know it, I’ve put all my favorite blogposts from this site in one category, called best of site.

    Some of my all time favorites are:

    Enjoy :o)

  • Friday Links

    HappyThe Slow Leadership Blog has The Truth about Communication. Have you ever asked yourself why so many communications are “top down???? The answer is simple: because they are all about control.
    That’s a critical insight. I agree!

    Negative people are bad four your brain – a classic from Kathy Sierra. The idea seems to be that “happy people” implies those who are oblivious to the realities of life, in a fantasy of their own creation, and without the ability to think critically. The science, however, suggests just the opposite.
    Where did we ever get the idea, that negative people are somehow more realistic and smarter than positive people? In my opinion, it’s just way too easy to be negative and you can always criticize and shoot ideas down. Being positive and supportive demands more from a person.

    And speaking of negative people, the world sucks, and the Helsinki Complaints Choir will tell you exactly how.