5 tips to avoid negativity at the office.
4 March 2013
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Feeling a bit burnt out, a bit discouraged? Don't give in to boredom or bitterness!
Here are 5 tips from a coach to fight against negativity that creeps in.
1. Breathe to relax.
It's well known that the beginning of relaxation is deep breathing, which allows you to reconnect with your body, to feel it vibrate and to free yourself from the mind and all the negative emotions attached to it.
Start by finding the position in which you feel best, most relaxed. Concentrate for a few minutes on your body. Breathe slowly, calmly, taking care to inhale and exhale properly.
These moments, short but profound, should present themselves to you several times a day, as many reminders of presence to yourself.
2. Accept difficulties
Often, letting go allows you to put things in their proper perspective, to relativize them, and therefore to better manage them, since they are taken with hindsight, with a composure that allows you to better understand them. Letting go, taking a step back, is also being able to accept the complexities to face in order to no longer suffer them, to no longer be a victim of them.
Take the time to reposition yourself within an entity that works with its ups and downs and to realize that maintaining negative thoughts and emotions forces you to live them twice: once in reality, once in yourself, virtually. Refuse complacency and ask yourself how to build in the face of your reality. It is not at all a matter of resigning yourself, but rather of accepting, integrating the vicissitudes of professional life and drawing a lesson from each event. Transforming the negative into positive is the only way to maintain energy, dynamism and efficiency in a complex and fluctuating universe.
3. Refuse automatisms
As habit sets in, and mastery of tasks too, it often happens that one catches oneself working as one drives: in an almost mechanical, automatic way, without thinking about the action one is performing, thinking about something else. This is an attitude to avoid, as often as possible, in that it dehumanizes and removes the awareness of the act and, thereby, the pleasure associated with it: that of a job well done. Try to maintain contact with your most innocuous actions, stay attentive to what surrounds you and to yourself, channel your energy into what you do instead of letting it dissipate in vain. Pay attention to the little things in life that (re)give meaning: look at the painting in front of you for real, without skimming it, water the plant on your desk, smile at your colleague… Being on the lookout for good things allows you to see them.
4. Pay attention to others.
In companies more than elsewhere, one lives with others without really being “with others”: one does not pay attention to the human being hidden behind the function. Taking the time to give a real look to one's colleagues can allow a motivating, energizing and -why not?- practical and useful human encounter. Ask your colleague how he is doing and take a few minutes of your schedule to listen to the answer, or even to answer! Thank that other colleague who helped you. Give yourself the possibility of experiencing brief moments of complicity, camaraderie, which will brighten your day.
5. Focus and concentrate on the tasks that motivate you.
Certainly, not all our missions are equally interesting and motivating. Allow yourself the luxury of investing more of yourself in those that passion you, even if it is not the essence of your function. Review your schedule so as to give them a more important place, or even expand them by proposing to your superior a new project of this kind that would offer you the possibility of developing one of your talents still unknown to your professional entourage. Remember that “he who attempts nothing has nothing”.
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
Here are 5 tips from a coach to fight against negativity that creeps in.
1. Breathe to relax.
It's well known that the beginning of relaxation is deep breathing, which allows you to reconnect with your body, to feel it vibrate and to free yourself from the mind and all the negative emotions attached to it.
Start by finding the position in which you feel best, most relaxed. Concentrate for a few minutes on your body. Breathe slowly, calmly, taking care to inhale and exhale properly.
These moments, short but profound, should present themselves to you several times a day, as many reminders of presence to yourself.
2. Accept difficulties
Often, letting go allows you to put things in their proper perspective, to relativize them, and therefore to better manage them, since they are taken with hindsight, with a composure that allows you to better understand them. Letting go, taking a step back, is also being able to accept the complexities to face in order to no longer suffer them, to no longer be a victim of them.
Take the time to reposition yourself within an entity that works with its ups and downs and to realize that maintaining negative thoughts and emotions forces you to live them twice: once in reality, once in yourself, virtually. Refuse complacency and ask yourself how to build in the face of your reality. It is not at all a matter of resigning yourself, but rather of accepting, integrating the vicissitudes of professional life and drawing a lesson from each event. Transforming the negative into positive is the only way to maintain energy, dynamism and efficiency in a complex and fluctuating universe.
3. Refuse automatisms
As habit sets in, and mastery of tasks too, it often happens that one catches oneself working as one drives: in an almost mechanical, automatic way, without thinking about the action one is performing, thinking about something else. This is an attitude to avoid, as often as possible, in that it dehumanizes and removes the awareness of the act and, thereby, the pleasure associated with it: that of a job well done. Try to maintain contact with your most innocuous actions, stay attentive to what surrounds you and to yourself, channel your energy into what you do instead of letting it dissipate in vain. Pay attention to the little things in life that (re)give meaning: look at the painting in front of you for real, without skimming it, water the plant on your desk, smile at your colleague… Being on the lookout for good things allows you to see them.
4. Pay attention to others.
In companies more than elsewhere, one lives with others without really being “with others”: one does not pay attention to the human being hidden behind the function. Taking the time to give a real look to one's colleagues can allow a motivating, energizing and -why not?- practical and useful human encounter. Ask your colleague how he is doing and take a few minutes of your schedule to listen to the answer, or even to answer! Thank that other colleague who helped you. Give yourself the possibility of experiencing brief moments of complicity, camaraderie, which will brighten your day.
5. Focus and concentrate on the tasks that motivate you.
Certainly, not all our missions are equally interesting and motivating. Allow yourself the luxury of investing more of yourself in those that passion you, even if it is not the essence of your function. Review your schedule so as to give them a more important place, or even expand them by proposing to your superior a new project of this kind that would offer you the possibility of developing one of your talents still unknown to your professional entourage. Remember that “he who attempts nothing has nothing”.
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
