Happiness Eludes at work?? Read this (2)

•  What is the key to happiness at work??
• Better Pay?
• Promotions??
• Recognition?
• Job - Satisfaction?
• Status Quo??
• Meteoric Rise?
• Dividends disproportionate to our honest work??

 Many of these options keep spinning, for us to find the right answer>>> A sociology researcher, has  found out from many of the working executives, that neither promotion nor better pay hikes bring in true happiness at work. .......... Read on>>>

Unhappy at workplace and think that a promotion or pay hike would cheer you up? Well, you may be wrong, for an expert has suggested happiness at work is all about attitude and nothing else.

Srikumar Rao, a Columbia University professor and author of "Happiness at Work," has said that being happy at work is all about attitude, rather than ticking goals off a to-do list.

"The single biggest obstacle to workplace happiness is the belief that we are prisoners of circumstance, powerless before the things that happen to us," News.com.au quoted her as saying.

"To change your job, you must change the way you think about it. We create our own experience."

Melbourne-based life coach Marion Lawrence agreed, saying people who subscribe to an "if I get a promotion/pay rise/quit my job, then I will be happy" attitude will never be fulfilled.

"That kind of attitude relies on an external reward to trigger happiness.

"The problem is, when those things you have aimed towards arrive, the happiness doesn't last because you are conditioned to look to the next goal," she said.

Lawrence said employers could play an important role in making their employees happy and increase the productivity of their staff by encouraging relaxation and making sure they focused on their individual wellbeing.

"There is a paradox in that people who are happier in the present tend to see and take more opportunities than those who are constantly waiting for some future event to bring them contentment," she added.

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Just an important acecdote>>

Many of the Best samples of happiness come free of cost for us. We only fail to recognise them, as we do not value them properly, as we take them for granted.

Example:

• Love from the parents>
• Pure Air, Water from the nature
• Products of Trees

• In more contemporary sense, a Fire Fox browser,  Wikipedia (Even Google Search) etc.

Creators of these services did it for job satisfaction. This is the clinching evidence, that people working for their satisfaction find happiness at job. No where else.>>>