How to maintain your work life happy... Special brew, just for you!!

Recent updation in technology has resulted in a drastic change in our lifestyle. Technology is shooting up in the market, while human adaptability is stagnant, leading to a poor work life balance. Instead of living in the real world, we have created a virtual world around us. To be globalized, we have put too much pressure on ourselves. We want to be omnipresent, which is not possible for a common man. These pressures are self-created which, I am sure, are immaterial in near future. We have put pressure on ourselves to post frequent photos of our daily life on Facebook, created the task to update status on Whatsapp, create stories on Instagram; be available for chatting with school friends, college friends, extended family members, ex-colleagues, present colleagues and fantasized future colleagues. 

We have to make sure to hang around with mates. To showcase that we are “fitness enthusiasts”, we need to go for gymming, swimming, Zumba, etc. Oh, and post about it too! We must watch all new series on Netflix, follow all super heroes. Not only this, we would be called outdated if we are not updated with the last night FIFA, Tennis, Cricket games even though it gets over at 3:00 AM IST. To be always the winner, to be “THE BEST” with our looks, style, IQ level and various other factors which we have been listening “TO BE EXCELLED IN” since our childhood, we are constantly increasing these pressures. After all, we are so called, millennials!

Going to work with these many pressures, there is a different level of pressure waiting for us, to perform better than the rest in team as it’s the world which follows the rule “the survival of the fittest”. If you have a family, you have another pressure to keep them happy and be able to meet their expectations. All these factors make you really unproductive at work. Numerous things going in the background, makes you an unsatisfied person sitting on the chair. Ultimately there starts a life full of dissatisfaction. You feel the need to leave for vacations, but, believe me, once you are back, you are burdened with even more pressure.

So now, let’s talk about few things you can do to maintain your work life happy:

• Love your job: Figure out the exciting things about your job and feel obliged that you have a job to earn you the easy life.
• Don’t talk about your religious and political beliefs at workplace: Talking about these will just distract you and drag you to search about these topics on internet. (Definitely not happy googling)
• Don’t think about someone’s incompetence: This will never increase your productivity, so never spend your time talking about this. On the contrary, you can concentrate on working on someone’s incompetency instead, so that, you get to master those.
• Watch a video of your role model: If you feel, that you are not doing anything productive in life, look for your role model. Write the points why they are your role models and how can you work upon those points for your personal development.
• Don’t feel non-productive: If you have sufficient work then you have no time to think about your level of productivity. If you have less work, ask for it. Your manager will not come to you to serve you. If your manager says that there is not much work for you or you are on bench, it’s time for you to move. If you feel that work is approaching soon, utilize the period to learn something, you always wanted to. It could be some soft skill, your proficiency in PPT making, in Excel, in designing or anything of your interest. In short, make better use of your free time, doing something meaningful.
• Review:  Work upon daily, weekly, monthly review of yourself. No manager can be better than you, yourself. Consider yourself to be an individual, judge yourself, punish yourself, reward yourself.
• Move towards a goal: Always set a goal or a target for yourself. Work for it now, don’t procrastinate things or don’t reschedule it else you will get adapted to rescheduling.
• Don’t panic if you are overloaded with work: Prioritize the tasks, delegate the tasks to team members as much as you can, schedule some tasks for future if it is really not urgent.
• Regularize yourself at work: Don’t leave work undone or half done. Discipline is always rewarded so put it in practice.
• Listen to good music: It should be as per your choice, not the taste of someone else. It could be fast music which can boost you, it could be slow, if that catalyses you.
• Play with your pen: Divide your tasks into sub-tasks, try to finish your sub-tasks as much as you can. Always put a tick mark on completed task. This tick could really be motivating.
• Move from your chair: Don’t sit at one place for more than an hour. Discuss about the different pieces of work from different teams. Drink plenty of water (So that you HAVE TO get up to pee!). This will spice up your monotonous task.
• Looking busy is not impressive: Overcome the false belief of looking busy. On the other hand, it will make you look disoriented.
• Don’t over-commit: Take responsibilities on your shoulder only if you can bear the load. Else, this will make you stressful. Have mercy on yourself, you are in office not in a battle field.
• Work upon your Fitness: Take proper sleep a night before. Focus on your energy. Don’t spread negative energy in the environment. Rather, gather positivity from everything possible around you. Trust me, everything around you has positive energy, sense it.  
• Meditate: It is wrongly believed that meditation is opposite of productivity. However, it is not. Take out some time from your 24 hours and meditate. You can do this anywhere, you just need some space and peace of your mind. This wipes away all the dirt from your mind.
• Take a break: If you feel distracted from work, take a break, go for a walk, have coffee or move from your chair. Don’t sit and try to work with that ‘siesta’ look at your desk.
• Assign to-do tasks everyday: Every morning assign yourself the 3/5/7/9 things you would want to finish on that day. Try and finish as many as possible. You will always have 1/3/5/7 tasks undone in the beginning. The undone tasks will decrease as you practice this consistently.
• Finish one task at the moment: Don’t try to shoot all birds with an arrow, all will fly. Complete one task first, pat your back and move on to the next.
• Deal smartly with unavailability of required person: If you get stuck due to someone else, don’t feel irritated, switch to the other work, which you can finish yourself.
• Finish the most difficult task before: Study says, while preparing for an exam, you must finish the most difficult subjects first. Same way, complete the tasks, you feel are most difficult. Else, this will create an extra burden on you.
• Don’t keep tasks at your desk: Read your mails at intervals, pass on the tasks to team if required. After all, it is always good to pass the ball to others’ court, that’s the safest way to play.
• Disconnect: Take a time-out from the internet! Keep away from politics and social media at workplace. I am sure, you will find the same government working in the evening, unless an exception occurs.

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