Pay day, employee benefits and staff perks can only give you so much happiness so it’s important you choose to be happy at work yourself.

1.            Think Happy – It may sound simple, but as with most things in life, you have to have the right mind set otherwise it won’t happen.  If you have a bad day, focus on the positives from it.  If you miss a deadline and your boss isn’t happy, focus your mind on something you did well and they were pleased about.  Acknowledge the situation, but turn it around and see it with positive eyes, not sad ones.   PMA – Positive Mental Attitude!

2.            Have ‘Me’ Time – If you do something in your day that you enjoy doing, then the other things won’t get you down as much.

3.            Power of the People – You can have the worst job in the world, but if you have great and fun people around you, it makes it 100% more bearable.  Get to know people, integrate yourself into the team.  It makes work a more fun place to be and even if you’ve had a bad day (or week!) you won’t mind going in.

4.            Avoid the Negatives – It is easier to be happy with you surround yourself with positive.  It’s infectious.  Decide to avoid the negative.  If Bob always moans when you ask how he is, don’t ask!  Find something positive to say to him – give him a positive instead of letting him give you a negative.

5.            Control your destiny - You are responsible for your own career, your development and your goals.  You can’t blame someone else for not making it happen if you won’t make it happen yourself.  Take control and realise that you have to take charge.  If you boss doesn’t help you, then they don’t lose out – you do.  You can go to your boss with a plan and ask for their support.  Don’t wait for them to come to you, then moan about it!

6.            Find Out – If you don’t feel you are being told enough information and it’s affecting you or your job, then go and find out!  Don’t moan that people don’t communicate, just get up and go and find out.  Take control.

7.            Feedback – First and foremost, be honest with yourself about how you are doing in your job.  If you don’t feel you are doing enough, increase your effort.  If you are happy with your performance, then that’s great.  Feedback doesn’t always come so you have to find inner happiness with your work, then if feedback comes, it’s a bonus.  You can always ask for feedback – just an idea.

8.            Delivering – Stress at work develops mainly from people failing to deliver, missing deadlines, not sending something urgently, an email that hasn’t come with vital information.  If one thing isn’t delivered, it can lead to a whole cycle of stressful events.  Be aware what the consequences are of you not delivering and commit to delivering what you can honestly meet.  Be organised, plan, manage your time and communicate.

9.            Conflict – No two people will ever agree on 100% of things – least of all in a work environment.  Embrace conflict and use it to your advantage.  Learn from it.  Be inspired by it.  Respect it.  Conflict doesn’t have to be scary and unsettling.  Turn it to a positive – it can be constructive.

10.          Change it… Learn to accept the things you cannot change and change the things you can.  If you are not happy, change it!  Generally the work place won’t change, but the people will.  If it’s not right for you, you’ll have to change because your workplace probably won’t.  Take pleasure in the fact that you know it won’t be long before you leave and that you will soon be grazing in pastures new.

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