Work Happy!

Historically, working hard is considered a good trait for career success and many people adapt this behaviour exhausting their energy and the ones around them to achieve this success.

While the new trait or new generation is being told to work smart to optimize energy and achievements. Working smart is also sometime working hard and exhausting energy to find the optimum goal.

I have personally, as many of you, used both regimes and worked hard in many tasks and also sometime worked smart in other tasks. We could alter between working hard and working smart to keep gaining trophies and please our corporate management. However, I find that there is no work life balance without having happiness and peace for self and people around you in the society.

The best results I have achieved in my career is when I worked happy!

I will list my tips that I have learned through my life and career experiences.

1-Take regular breaks

Don’t wait for summer or end year holidays to plan your next vacation, take regular breaks like longer weekend before you find yourself energy drained so you can enjoy the moment and return energized and refreshed.

2-Reward yourself and people around you

Great celebration and award are great, but also celebrating small successes and rewarding yourself and your team for nicely done work, will bring you happiness to your workplace and more successes to come. Positive energy will help you overcome challenges smoothly and attract positive success.

3-Plan work and plan time off

As you plan work and business plan on daily and weekly basis, you should also think to plan weekend and time off, this will set your brain to balance between working hard or smart and being happy.

I prefer to fill the gap in my brain and no wait till the last moment to plan, this will help to set up a positive mood and make us both eager and energetic.

4-Say No and be Honest

It is obvious no one can perform without break, and we cannot multitask while keeping optimum performance, we should be able to plan our priorities and learn to say No honestly to keep the happiness in both life and work environment.

Happiness at work bring satisfactory experience to both individual and corporate and improve mental health tremendously while improving the business performance.

I believe successful businesses and leaders should focus on finding the optimum situation for making their team happy to extract best performance from their team.

Working hard or working smart is now old fashioned to optimize performance, work happy instead and get great results!