Less Manic Monday: 2 Words To Transform a Workplace
August 27, 2007 by Phil Gerbyshak
Filed under Business
Are you looking to reach higher goals, with less stress and more happiness? Dr. Ellen Weber reminds us that the power of a thank you can help you reach your goals, with increased well being, courtesy of a research project at UC Davis by one Robert A. Emmons. Other benefits from a 21-day gratitude intervention is greater amounts of high energy positive moods, a greater sense of feeling connected to others, more optimistic ratings of one’s life, and better sleep duration and sleep quality.
If you ask me, sleeping better, feeling more positive, and being more connected to others is reason enough to say thank you!
This week, I encourage you to take the time to transform your workplace with the power of a simple, and specific, thank you! Allow me to start us off.
Thank you for reading Slacker Manager. Your comments, trackbacks, and other ways of providing feedback is what keeps me writing. Even if you don’t agree with what I write, the fact many of you care enough to share your insights makes my week!
[Phil Gerbyshak will be finding ways to say a specific thank you to each member of his team this week.]
PS Thank you also to Darwin Bell for the thank you graphic!
Thank you for writing this blog and providing the various bits of insight and tips on productivity.
You are very welcome Aaron. Glad to share what I know! :)
I thanked my wife a few weeks ago for sacrificing so much of herself to raise our children. I could actually see the emotional weight of her work lifiting for a moment.
It hadn’t occurred to me previously that she might not actually know that I think that what she does is vitally important in what we want to achieve in life together.
Now she does.