Youe Can Find More Happiness Through Your Work

Written by Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach


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This is Babe Ruth replying when asked HOW he hit home runs like he did, “I like to,” his assumption being thatrepparttar rest of us could, if only we wanted to or “liked to”. He couldn’t even grasprepparttar 131074 question. Often with innate strengths it’s “the last thingrepparttar 131075 fish knows about isrepparttar 131076 water.”

.2. Write your Personal Mission Statement. (http://www.franklincovey.com/missionbuilder/index.html ). Define your values, principles, and what matters to you. Then use this as a touchstone for making decisions and setting priorities and goals.

If your organization needs a Mission Statement, write one collaboratively, if possible. Getting everyone behindrepparttar 131077 “mission,”repparttar 131078 “bigger picture,” will add to communal work satisfaction.

2. Attach meaning to what you do, what your department does, your organization does, and help others feelrepparttar 131079 mission in it.

The person who’s answeringrepparttar 131080 phone, for instance, isn’t “just answeringrepparttar 131081 phone,” they’re representing your company torepparttar 131082 public and a key player inrepparttar 131083 success of your group mission.

If you feel your work isn’t meaningful, and can’t be, then you have some “recrafting” to do.

4. Get a good organizational system. I userepparttar 131084 “Don’t Die at 50 Weekly Organizational Calendar ™” andrepparttar 131085 Gooding Accountability System ™”. These will work if you work them.

5. Develop your emotional intelligence; it matters more to your success and happiness than your IQ, and it can be learned. Take an assessment, an Internet course, work with a coach, read, and practice.

6. Engagerepparttar 131086 services of a coach. This will greatly shorten your learning curve re: how you apply your Strengths and how well you develop your EQ, and he or she will hold your feet torepparttar 131087 fire on accountability until it becomes second nature.

So there’s a formula: Knowing your signature strengths and crafting your life around them, defining and managing your values and mission which allow meaning, and actually accomplishing this because you’ve become organized.

Lastly, stay connected. In an interview, Mother Teresa was asked, “You’ve been in India dealing with illnesses like cholera and AIDS. What’srepparttar 131088 worst illness you’ve ever seen?” and she replied without blinking an eye, “The worst illness I have ever seen isrepparttar 131089 loneliness and isolation inrepparttar 131090 West.”

So, in conclusion, whether or not “pleasures” can occur inrepparttar 131091 workplace,repparttar 131092 deeper satisfactions of life can and your job can be one path to happiness. If you’rerepparttar 131093 leader,repparttar 131094 more opportunities for personal growth, development of potential, respect for strengths, opportunities for personal excellence, and “flow” you facilitate,repparttar 131095 happier everyone is likely to be, and therefore more productive.

It could be that employees are more after this sort of experience than pizza parties and hoopla.

Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach, helps clients discover their innate talents, develop their emotional intelligence and GET ORGANIZED. Visit her on the web at www.susandunn.cc and mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for FREE strengths course and ezine.


Express Yourself and Help Others Too!

Written by Susan Dunn, Coach


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· Tell us how to navigate holidays and events. These life happenings add another "job" to our already busy lives.

· Interview someone of interest to you and turn that into an article.

· Humor, anecdotes, and quotations.

WHERE TO SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLES?

· http://www.ideamarketers.com accepts a wide range of articles-self help, marketing, business, home and family, Christian, news, how-tos.

· http://www.zinos.com even has a "rant and rave" section.

· http://www.innerself.com and www.self-growth.com need articles about personal development.

· http://www.boconline.com accepts articles about home and small business.

. http://www.topten.org takes Top Tens and quotations.

When you write, it helps you organize your thoughts and feelings and you give other people valuable information atrepparttar same time, so express yourself!

Susan Dunn helps clients maximize their lives and is the author of "How to Write Articles for the Internet." Visit her on the web at www.susandunn.cc and mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for FREE ezine.


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