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5 Reasons Why Your Work Happiness Matters

Work place mental health

An organization whether small or large, has a climate and an atmosphere in which people should not only be able to work but must be able to grow. Everyone has a shared responsibility toward themselves and those around them when it comes to well-being. Your work happiness matters in the organization.

1. Your thoughts and feelings make up your inner weather

You go to work with a certain attitude and perspective every day. This is your inner weather. Your mood, your energy levels, and your attitude impact how you interact with everyone around you, from customers and clients to colleagues and subordinates. 

2. You are part of an atmosphere larger than you

Your inner weather becomes part of the larger atmosphere within which you are. You pass on your mindset to your colleagues and vice versa, you hear your colleagues thoughts, ideas, worldviews. You are consciously or unconsciously influencing each other on a daily basis. Your state of mind, your happiness or lack of it at work impacts others.

3. Your inner turmoil can be draining

Your human resources department will have some guidelines and “rules” spelled out for everyone. So maybe you manage to keep some of your inner turmoil at bay. Maybe you take just about as much sick leave as you can, or you keep your unresolved anger to yourself but instead display socially acceptable excessive drinking on networking nights. Or to cope with your anxiety, you avoid taking on challenging work or you avoid people and keep to yourself. 

No one operates in a social vacuum and no matter how independent you think you are, we are all interconnected. Your workplace has a soul made up of the collective minds and bodies of everyone who works there and everyone who has ever been there. 

4. It matters if you’re happy with your work life

So it does matter if you are happy with your work or not. You are in a relationship with your work, and your work persona is alive, dynamic, and breathing. It is part of you! It cannot be ignored. Not only because your happiness matters but also because your attitude, your behaviors and your values affect everyone around at work you as well. 

The simple question you have to ask yourself is: How do you feel on your day to day when you’re at work? If you feel generally at ease during the usual activities that is a good first sign. If you experience tension, anxiety, frustration even during the daily routine activities of the day then that is a signal that something is off. Identify what triggers these negative experiences for you. Start documenting the patterns of your inner weather. The more you become a curious scientist when it comes to your feelings the more predictive your patterns will be. 

Once you identify your patterns, ask yourself what you could do, what changes you need to make in order to make it a little easier for yourself to complete your routine tasks. 

5. The small things affect how you feel

Sometimes the answer could be one of these: Go to bed an hour earlier, drink more water, meditate for 30 seconds during your lunch break, get up, walk around and stretch your back every hour, be kind in your communications, eat a light nutritious lunch, cut caffeine, drink less or not at all. No matter how stressful your life is you can set the tone for your day.

Ask yourself what is one thing you could do each day that would make your day better. 

If the problems feel entangled, complicated and not easily addressed then explore what you need to do to begin to resolve those issues. For example, if you have a fundamental value difference with your boss, and you keep budding heads over every single decision, then you have a slightly bigger task ahead of you. So adjust your expectations and don’t expect quick solutions. Still, you have an obligation to address your inner relationship with work for the benefit of everyone else who lives and breathes within the same space as you. 

Read our 10 days to a better relationship with work for some more ideas on what you can do. 

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Dr. Ava Ghasemi (Holdich) is a licensed Psychologist with 11 years experience in the U.S., Canada and the Middle East. She has a practice of individual and couples therapy at the MapleTree Center in Dubai.

Articles on www.aureliapsychology.com may feature the advice of a licensed expert or other non-clinicians and is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for advice, diagnosis or treatment from a trained professional. In an emergency, please seek help from your local medical or law enforcement services.

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