DAILY HAPPINESS TIP #41- Set a Lighter Tone to Meetings

Some workers are just intimidated by meetings, while others see it as a waste of time. While there are valid reasons for their feelings, perhaps based on previous experiences, meetings are still valuable tools to accomplishing certain tasks, particularly bigger projects involving more than one unit.

Instead of avoiding this necessary task, how about initiating light conversations and exchanging anecdotes to lighten the tone of meetings?  Suggesting a "humor minute or two" to share jokes before starting, or a break in long sessions to stretch and toss a funny story can make a lot of difference if everyone joins in the spirit of fun. These take out the drudgery out of meetings and make them what they’re supposed to be…avenues for exchange of ideas and to boost camaraderie, which would improve creativity and productivity.

Yes, laughter and play offer physical, psychological and physiological benefits to anyone. Appropriate humor can make hard tasks easier, collaborations fun and certainly make workdays go faster. So laugh, and laugh out loud to your heart’s content…take it as part of your job to improve performance and morale in the workplace.

“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.” ~Jean Houston

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DAILY HAPPINESS TIP #39- Bring Humor to your Workplace

We spend about a quarter to a third of our lifetime as productive adults in our workplaces where negative stress may abound. From unsupportive bosses to crabby co-workers, from boring repetitive tasks to high-pressure highly competitive sales environment, you name it. Because we do not live to work but we work to make a living, let us choose to improve workplace environment instead of merely griping about it. After all, because a major chunk of our time is spent in the workplace, happiness, anger, frustration and other lingering emotions affect other aspects of our lives, particularly our health and wellbeing that we’re supposed to share with our loved ones.

Humor and fun can make any negative work environment less stressful. It can start with you posting tasteful jokes, cartoons, funny photos, or anything fun (but harmless) in your cubicle such as this. Your closest friend in the office can do the same and then perhaps the others as well. Everyone can have his/her own brand of humor that can be appreciated by everyone else. Then there is something to talk about and to look forward to during visits to other people’s cubicles. It may not immediately turn the most negative of workplace to a haven of positive energy. But it’s a good start.

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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DAILY HAPPINESS TIP #24- Laugh as Often as You Can

“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.” -Mort Walker

It has often been said that laughter is the best medicine. With so many issues at hand and concerns of the heart, it is no wonder that so many of us gets overwhelmed, angry and depressed. How about trying a good dose of laughter as often as you like? There’s no overdose, perhaps just a lot of gas to pass…but that, too, can be simply shrugged off and laughed away. It’ll remind you that you’re human, not perfect and that’s great! Learn to laugh at yourself and you’ll be fine…and happy all the more.

“So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” -Gordon W. Allport

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