Vanquish Negativity in Your Culture

Cargo ships crash into bridges.

Shootings invade our “safe” schools.

And as if this weren’t enough, it’s an election year.

This kind of overwhelming negativity spirals us downward, creating despairing attitudes and dismal spirits.

It affects your work, making you less productive.

You miss sales goals.

You disregard project deadlines.

?Your work sucks.

?Your culture wanders aimlessly as your mind chases 24/7 news cycles down the rabbit hole into darkness.

?How do you reverse course and get back on track with a positive work culture??

Here are 3 Positive Ways to Deal with the Negative World:?

https://www.workpositive.today/blog/3-positive-ways-to-deal-with-the-negative-world

?Who/What Hinders Your Creation of a Positive Work Culture?

?You and your leaders may mean well, but just don’t know how small actions make a big difference in impeding or impacting a positive work culture. ??

?Dr. Joey created the Small Hinges Swing Big Doors course to guide you and your leaders to excel as culture creators. He collaborated with 5 fellow culture experts to resource your leaders including:

?? Bob Johansen on future-back thinking

?? Mitchell Levy on credibility

?? Jim Palmer on how to serve first.

Go to https://workpositive.today/smallhinges to transform your work culture to positive today!

?This Week’s Do One Thing (DOT)

?Small Hinge 5: Write in your Gratitude Diary at bedtime.

?Starting your workday swinging open big doors of culture transformation through small hinge actions sets you up for a great ending to your day. Record those in your Gratitude Diary.

?For decades, I’ve mentor coached my clients to keep such a diary. So, just what is a Gratitude Diary?

?Choose your favorite medium. Mine is a three-ring binder filled with paper and a pen. Others use Notepad, Word, Evernote or some other app or program.

?Here’s what you do: write down/type in three positive experiences from your workday.

?Something like, “Grateful to sign a six-figure contract with a [new client name here] today.” Or, “Grateful to make an offer that was accepted by [top talent name here] today.” Or, “Grateful to leave off the TV news this morning, read a positive chapter from Small Hinges Swing Big Doors, listen to Lovely Day Radio on Pandora while I got ready, and visualize best outcomes to my appointments.”

?My clients and I find this act is best done at bedtime. You sleep more restfully when you do your Gratitude Diary instead of watching the late news. Rather than watching a fire burn or somebody say something like, “Yea, my daughter called me and said there was a shooting at the Walmart,” you seed positive, personal experiences from your day. Watch the news before bedtime and your nightmare features you running from gunfire at the Walmart.

?Do One Thing (DOT): Write in your Gratitude Diary at bedtime.

?Get your copy of Dr. Joey's best-seller, Small Hinges Swing Big Doors, on Amazon for only $0.99 at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHSFYW9X

?The Work Positive Podcast

?When was the last time you heard someone laugh at work? Doesn’t matter whether you were in-person or on Zoom. A belly laugh instead of a polite chuckle?

?Well, if you need a good laugh, this episode of the Work Positive Podcast is for you. Dr. Joey’s guest, @Paul Osincup, has been the “jack of all jokes” since grade school. He’s the author of The Humor Habit. He’s been featured in?The New York Times,?Forbes, and on his mom’s refrigerator as well as numerous other important media outlets. His first TEDx Talk is used in corporate and collegiate leadership courses around the world. He’s on a global mission for work happiness and helped hundreds of organizations including Google, Discover, US Air Force, US Army, Cisco, and Nasdaq. He creates content for Happify, an app that provides evidence-based solutions for emotional health and well-being for over 17 million users.

?Get ready to laugh out loud in this Work Positive Podcast as you discover how to:

?? leverage humor effectively which releases beneficial neurochemicals for your teams. ?? create a positive and engaging work environment through appropriate humor which improves morale and reduces stress. ?? build strong, loyal teams and foster an approachable leadership style.

Listen here: https://workpositive.today/paul-osincup

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