In order to progress at work and even enjoy your job, it’s important to have the right attitude.
Most of us will admit to being a little negative from time to time, and the human brain overall is hard-wired to recognise negativity before positivity. The problem is, by allowing that negative mindset to rule during your working hours, you’re possibly preventing yourself from not only progressing in your career but also creating a less than happy environment for yourself and those around you.
Having the right attitude basically means having a positive attitude, and recognising that mistakes can and do happen, conflicts occasionally arise, and that nobody is perfect. By understanding these points, and attempting to see the positive in most situations, you’ll find that your general feelings about work improve drastically.
Check out this useful infographic which highlights a few easy ways you can foster a more positive attitude whilst sat at your office chairs.
Source - https://drrobbell.com/8-simple-ways-to-have-a-positive-attitude-in-the-workplace/
How many of those tactics do you use currently? It’s likely there are a few new ones on that list you can try today!
Overcoming Difficulties in The Workplace
Of course, it’s difficult to be positive 100% of the time, and that means that whilst at your office desks you’re going to run into difficulties occasionally. How you handle these difficulties will shape your general attitude and your feelings about your work, as well as the working relationships you have with your colleagues and management.
Seeing difficulties as opportunities to learn is a good starting point, but that can sometimes be difficult when faced with a problem which seems impossible to overcome. Having a team working ethos in your office helps with this type of issue.
In that case, nobody is alone in a problem and there is always someone to help and share the burden; if anything, the burden is shared amongst the team as a whole! Everyone can then sit down around the office tables and come up with creative solutions to solve the problem and overcome the difficulty.
Problems can also arise because you don’t have the right approach towards time management. This means you don’t organise your time in the right way, causing stress and a feeling of being overwhelmed when your workload piles up. This can be easily remedied by learning how to do more in the time you have, by using time management techniques. Prioritising, time blocking, effective scheduling, and using the Pomodoro Technique with regular breaks, could be the answer to your workload issues.
Of course, being in control of your workload also helps you feel more upbeat and positive too! There is nothing positive about feeling stressed about deadlines and targets.
Adopting The Right Workplace Attitude
Having the right attitude towards work is also about enjoying the work that you do. Whilst nobody jumps out of bed every morning and skips their way to work, most of us do have an underlying enjoyment in our jobs, and we have a purpose. This means we value what we do, and we see the importance in it. If you don’t have this, even trendy office furniture and all the perks in the world won’t make a difference in terms of how you feel.
If you constantly feel unbothered by your work, e.g. you don’t really care about it and you clock watch until home time, that’s a good sign you should start thinking about the things you do enjoy. Having a job which you find enjoyable makes time go faster, it helps you feel more upbeat, it helps to banish stress, and it allows you to be more positive in your working environment. In addition, you’ll find it easier to manage your to-do list and concentrate on whatever task you have in front of you.
It can be difficult to focus on positivity all the time, especially if something is going on in your personal life, but at least attempting to focus on the positives rather than the negatives will go a long way.