There are a lot of articles out there, inspiring us and teaching us to be appreciative of being alive, being loved and being healthy. What I would like to do today being the 1st of February is to divert away from being appreciative focusing on life itself and concentrate on your work life. I know your job is not everything to you, however, you spend a quarter of your day at work, isn’t that enough to make you want to make that quarter better?
Let me start first, you can join in and share what your happiness in a workplace at the comments below.
Happiness in a workplace is…
When I get appreciated of the little things I do at work
When I receive a ‘Good Job!’ email from my boss
When my colleague remembers that I drink tea not coffee
When I get to work early enough for breakfast with my coworkers
When I solve a particularly difficult problem and I owned the rights to punch the air with my fist and yell ‘Yeah!”
When I see someone gets praised publicly in front of others
When my peers approach me to pick my brain for ideas
When my ideas turned from a mere thought process to a successful launch
When my team volunteer to stay back at work to help me complete my work
When I use facts and figures to shut the management’s mouth (major ego booster!!)
When everyone said it’s impossible to reach that target and we did
When every one of my team turns up for company’s outing because we want to
When I enjoy my colleagues’ company so much they become my friends off work
When I completed a huge and difficult project on time and beyond management’s expectations
When customers asked to speak to the manager (me) to compliment my teammates
When customers called in and proposition me to work for them (another major ego booster!! Haha!)
When my boss says he has faith in me in conquering a seemly impossible situation and I proved him right
When I tried to reason out and my boss says ‘Shut up and do whatever you want because I trust you.’
When someone comes up to me and give me a big hug for inspiring him or her
When my team cried as I told them I’m relocating
When someone I don’t know comes up to me and said he or she has heard of my good work and gave me a thumbs up
I know I’m not in the corporate world and as I recalled these happy instances, I smile. What about you? What makes you smile in your workplace? What is happiness in the workplace for you? Share with us in the below comments.
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you have summarized it wonderfully.. nothing more to be added:)
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Thank you! Glad you like this. Hope it perk your Monday up
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Absolutely friend
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Wonderful Kally, all so very true. Happiness is being part of a team, both at home and at work, and loving what you do with the people you do it with.
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Thanks, Miriam!! Hope it perks up your Monday.
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Those are all wonderful points…I work from home so I miss out on the camaraderie, etc of the workplace. Thanks for sharing. Lori
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Hi Lori, thanks for the comment. I work from home too, and yes I do miss the camaraderie too.
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Happiness at work is when I’ve helped take the edge off someone’s suffering-even for a moment.
OR put a genuine smile on just one person’s face
OR managed to provide encouragement and reassurance to someone who desperately needed it.
Great post, Cheers Nicole
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Wow!! Nice add ons. I love them!
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This is really great, Kally. What makes me happy in my workplace is working with in a team where minds are on the same page about their targets and they push themselves together to achieve it. While doing so, they also enjoy each other’s company and motivates each other.
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Great point to add on! I miss all that now that I’m no longer working in a team.
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Oh you aren’t??
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Nah.. I’m a freelancer now. 🙂
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Thanks for reposting and sharing this out!!
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Every bit of this post made me smile, especially reaching impossible goals. I had a logistics issue once that was so seemingly insurmountable that no one expected me to achieve it. When I did, one of the upper management said, “I was told you had a monster on your hands!” He actually looked frightened, which made me laugh. I said, ” I AM the monster!” Really great inspiring post, Kally!
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Hahaha!! Aww.. Thanks for letting me know you love this post and most importantly, it made you smile.
It must be an awesome moment when you said you are the monster to your management!
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Thanks for sharing this out with your readers!!
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it is nice to read as a person to be happy at work.
A happy new week
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Thank you!! I thought it would be great hearing how someone love their jobs instead of the usual moaning about too much work and not enough pay. Haha!! Have an amazing week!!
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Thank! an amazing week also for you
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I agree ! What else .. Just passion That speaks
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Thank you for sharing such Happy moments… May you enjoy many more moments of Happiness and Contentedness throughout your week..
Blessings Sue
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Thanks a lot, Sue!! And welcome back to your blog, we missed you.
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Awww thank you so much 🙂 Kally xxx
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Thanks for the follow
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You’re welcome! And welcome to MiddleMe! Do hang around more.
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Great variety in your workplace happiness reflections!! And for me – it is pure joy to have the sense of really being valued and feeling like a unique part of the work family that is not easily replaceable – you know – feeling valued and also valuing being there – 🌷
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Very true! I felt it is more important than earning a lot of money but leaving workplace everyday, feeling like an outcast.
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Yes – sadly not all work environments are supportive
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For sure … We have to find the good balance with Work money healthy Life And most of all …. Happyness ! Cheers 😘💋👍
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😊❤️
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Great post! I like your approach to appreciating life from the point of view of the workplace. I enjoyed that! 🙂
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Thank you, Malaika! There are a lot of blogs and websites out there to teach you on how to enjoy life but many seems to forget that a quarter of our lives are stuck behind the desk, being miserable and that to me is very sad.
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No worries if you don’t want to do it, just wanted to say I love your blog 🙂
-Rosie
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Awww.. You are super sweet, Rosie!! And I am super honored. Thanks a lot!
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Very great thoughts.
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Thank you!! And welcome to MiddleMe!
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You are very graciously welcome, and glad to be here.
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another great post…kat
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Thanks a lot, Kat!!
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You said it all. Intelligent thoughts. Thank you.
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Thanks for dropping by!!
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You are welcome.
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So cute !!! Kiss
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Thumbs up for this list! What makes me happy is to see that I made people happy, that they leave happier than when they arrived, or with a slightly bigger smile on their face than they had before.
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Thank you!!!
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Happiness is having meaningful work, a good workplace/boss and time to have a life outside of work! Hope you are having a happy week!
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Well said! Have a great weekend!
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