Learn the Hidden Secrets of How to Be Happier at Work? Thoughts on Being Happy in Your Job

Change Your Mindset – Change the World

Being Happier at Work

“Every man is the architect of his own fortune”. Everyone knows this saying, but only a few know how much truth and power lie in these words. We encounter the same and common negative thoughts again and again; “Why does this always happen to me?”, “Are there only idiots left in this world?”, “Why do others leave earlier than me?”, “I work much more than others”, “Life is so unfair”, “Still so much to do! I’ll never make it!” So, how do you beat these thoughts? How do you stop

Thoughts like these, buzz around in our heads: sometimes more, sometimes less intense. Are we aware of them? Not really. But they are like a drop of ink, which can cloud a whole glass of water. Bu tit’s not water, it is our state of mind, which can be clouded. Temporarily and even permanently.  They can affect our whole day, or in the worst case, our whole life. Is it really worth it? 

Why are We Less Happy at Work? Is it at all Possible to Get Happier at Work?

What do we usually do? We label, generalize and judge. Assume, condemn, draw conclusions and take things personally. We overvalue the bad and undervalue the good. We simply take the positive for granted and see only the negative. 

Is it society’s and work life development’s fault? More and more pressure, everything has to go fast. Higher, faster, further. That’s probably true – in parts at least.

But society and customers are not the ones forcing us to constantly live in the future. It is us.

Thoughts are constantly circling around us; what is still to come? What needs to be done? Where the hell is this leading to? What if..? 

Worries and worst case scenarios everywhere. To a large extent, THAT is what makes the world fast-paced for us and what makes us feel like we can’t handle things. In the long run, this can lead to dissatisfaction, constant stress, and eventually illness (keyword “burn-out”).

Is there anything I can do to Help Myself be Happier at Work?

So what to do? Get my boss to give me less work to do? Force the customers not to build up so much pressure? Yes, that would be the best option, of course. Sometimes that might even work to some extent.

But isn’t it true that some circumstances simply can’t be changed?

So we have a choice: do we fight every day anew against the circumstances imposed on us with great effort and give anger, frustration, fear and doubts room to poison us? Burning us out and making us sick? Do we let our water glass get cloudy?

Or do we try to accept situations that cannot be changed in order to at least live more pleasantly in this hard and fast-moving world?

The easiest thing to change about an unpleasant situation is your own attitude towards it.

Conclusion

Change things you can change and accept things you can’t change. Often heard and certainly often tried. But unfortunately not so easy. Everybody knows that. But maybe it helps one way or another to ask yourself; “What is the alternative?”

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

Martin Luther

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