You know the drill. You arrive a work with the best in-tensions. But once you sit down at your desk the wrath of negative kicks in pronto. Fix your attitude at work and being loving what you do with these tips from career coach G.L. Hoffman.
1. Surround yourself with positive things and people. If this means ignoring Debbie Downer at work, her loss. I am told that in AA, one of the things they tell you to do is to separate yourself from your drink ’til you throw up buddies. Same thing here. You are addicted to negative thinking and bad motivation.
2. Admit the problem. Don’t rationalize that you are just being “realistic.” Or that someone has to be a truth teller in your organization. Go tell all your truths to the others in the unemployment line.
3. Remember positive things and people. You have these memories, you just need to be able to call them up and relive them.
4. Read great books and literature. There are plenty of self-help, self-motivation books out there. Read a few and try some of the tips you will learn. Become a student, or a motivational hobbyist. More on this later.
5. Work on making yourself more likable. Yes, I am serious. Here is a piece that might help.
6. Laugh. I do not know any negative people who laugh–a lot. It is simply impossible to be negative and out of sorts if you smile and laugh a lot.
7. Read this. A revealing admission. I have read countless positive motivation books. I have seen Zig Ziglar. But the one book I keep coming back to is the one that literally shook me to my own core when I was 25 or so. It is not a motivational book, per se. In fact, it is a novel. For me, reading this book was a life changing event. If you have not yet read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, run to the library and check it out.
G. L. Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur and venture investor/operator/incubator/mentor. Source USnews.com
