Enjoy!: 101 Ways to Add Fun to Your Work Every Day

✍ Scribed by Gini Graham Scott

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Every year, we all find ourselves working harder, longer, and at a faster pace. Very few of us are working a forty-hour week anymore and many of us find it impossible to find time to relax much less find ways to make our jobs more enjoyable. Finally here is an antidote for overstressed workers everywhere. As an expert in personal and professional development, Gini Graham Scott has helped people all over the world find more enjoyment in their work and personal lives. In "Enjoy!" she shares her secrets for finding and creating more fulfillment at the office. Using examples from her workshops and interviews with psychologists and recreation professionals, she shows how to relieve stress, anxiety, and tedium from everyday life. Most of us spend more than a third of our lives at work. Finally, here is the book that can make that part of our lives infinitely more enjoyable.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Part I. Don’t Worry, Be Happy......Page 14
1. The Principles of Happiness......Page 16
2. Six Tools to Help You Be Even Happier......Page 26
3. What Makes People Happy?......Page 50
Part II. Break Down the Barriers to Enjoyment......Page 64
4. Assess Where You Are Now......Page 66
5. Silence Your Inner Critical Voice......Page 82
6. Rediscover Your Inner Child......Page 94
7. Eliminate Other Enjoyment Blocks......Page 112
Part III. 101 Ways to Enjoy Yourself More at Work......Page 122
8. Add More Fun to the Workplace......Page 124
9. Make Work More Fun for Everyone......Page 142
10. Organize Events, Celebrations, and Contests......Page 162
11. Take Your Fun Outside of Work......Page 184
Part IV. Expand Your Fun Horizons......Page 190
12. Explore New Possibilities......Page 192
13. Make Travel Time More Interesting and Enjoyable......Page 200
14. Start an ENJOY! Group to Increase Your Fun with Others......Page 222
Part V. Putting It All Together......Page 228
15. The Enjoyment Assessment Quiz......Page 230
Notes......Page 236
Selected Bibliography......Page 240
A......Page 246
C......Page 247
E......Page 248
G......Page 249
I......Page 250
M......Page 251
P......Page 252
R......Page 253
T......Page 254
W......Page 255
Z......Page 256