Engage the Day
Here are 33 ways to engage today:
Focus on the work right in front of you.
Savor your morning cup of coffee.
Connect to your peers.
Esteem your organization.
Laugh to keep perspective.
Stretch yourself to grow.
Stretch yourself for flexibility.
Appreciate your strengths.
Be mindful of your emotions at work.
Recognize another person’s good work.
Recognize another person’s humanity.
Remove obstacles to progress.
Keep making progress.
Experience how progress can fully engage you.
Change a bad day.
Limit work engagement to maintain balance.
Innovate a new way of doing things.
Hack your work to make it better.
Welcome interruptions.
Smile your way through the day.
Walk for 10 minutes to gather energy and change your mood.
Serve a customer like a best friend.
Respectfully stand up to a bully at work.
Connect with a former co-worker.
Stay fully engaged with 45 minute chunks of work.
Read just one blog post to get a new idea about working.
Find a meaningful measure to track your work.
Change what is no longer working for you.
Change your locus of engagement to refocus and re-energize.
Fully engage in your own well-being.
Model the spirit of a child at play in your own work.
Share a meal with someone you can help.
Go to bed early to fully engage tomorrow.
These are so simple, we all know them, but it’s fascinating how many we don’t actually do. And yet if we were to do most of the things on this list, how engaged would we feel?
My favorite, is to respectfully stand up to a bully at work. Great post David…great reminders.