article thumbnail

Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

Success

Oxytocin helps us connect, feel empathy and trust; serotonin regulates anxiety, happiness and well-being ; and endorphins reduce pain and stress while boosting mood and self-esteem. economy up to $187 billion every year between lost productivity and health care and medical costs.

article thumbnail

What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

Success

The grateful among us enjoy higher self-esteem and are generally in better moods. It very well might fade, like a disappointing percentage of my attempts to inject productive self-improvement into the spaces of my day generally reserved for stuff such as Super Mario Kart 8.

Learning 363
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

BMT Office Administration

As you can imagine, this level of procrastination causes serious productivity issues and can lead to employees getting fired. While taking infrequent, short breaks are typically innocuous, too many can start to affect productivity negatively. Another form of procrastination at work is presenteeism, which often gets misunderstood.

article thumbnail

How to Get Productive & Organized, Even if You have ADD/ADHD or ADD/ADHD Tendencies - Listen Live!

Stephanie LH Calahan

  If you do not have systems, processes and productive mindset activities in place, your unwanted ADD/ADHD tendencies could take over when you least want them to leaving you feeling low self-esteem, unproductive and unprofitable.  Nevertheless, these characteristics do come with a warning label. 

article thumbnail

8 Simple Ways to Encourage Others

Ian's Messy Desk

When you acknowledge what’s important to others, you provide a form of affirmation and validation about who they are and what they’re doing. The affirmation and validation is like nitro for their confidence and self-esteem. Related articles by Zemanta Emotional Balance (thedutchfiles.com) Positive Self Esteem Is Important.

article thumbnail

SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

Drawing from their unique experiences and insights, they create products, services and technologies that cater to the diverse needs of society, driving innovation and fostering inclusive growth. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Van Jones (CNN host) and was the festival production company for Newark Arts Festival (2017 and 2018).

2024 264
article thumbnail

Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

Success

There is mounting evidence that keeping employees happy leads to increased productivity and profitability. Our research shows that when the human brain is positive, you have 31% higher levels of productivity, 23% fewer fatigue-related symptoms and are 40% more likely to get a promotion. Don’t micromanage every move in the house.