Does your job suck? Do you hate your boss? If you answered yes to one or both of those questions you might be wondering how you could ever see how beyond a pay check, your work can provide you with meaning.

Happiness matters because feeling happy is linked to a greater sense of wellbeing, achievement and fulfillment.

But if you’ve been chasing happiness, you can stop wasting your time, because all the happiness you will ever need is available to you right now. You just have to create it.

Better still the ways to create more happiness in your life are simple and easy to implement. Here are seven to get you started.

Creating a culture of psychological safety at work takes time but is well worth the effort.
Google’s Project Aristotle so named for his quote “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” found that psychological safety was the single most important success factor underpinning high performance teams across the organisation. The ROI being it assists in reducing the human business costs of absenteeism, high staff turnover and stress related illness while boosting productivity, performance and happiness at work.

Overwork doesn’t work. Studies have shown how working beyond 55 hours a week adds little if anything to productivity. It seems that 40 hours is the optimal amount. Not only that, overwork can lead to significant poorer mental and physical health. John Pencavel from Stanford has found that overwork provides insufficient time for individuals to restore and recover meaning subsequent work performance suffers.

Feeling happy or successful doesn’t result from doing one or a handful of things, rather it’s our conscious choice to adopt a way of living, of being, that aligns with our values and sense of purpose that leads to more positive experiences and greater happiness.

It’s Valentine’s Day this week and love is in the air. It’s time to reconnect with those we love in life and work. “Jenny, did you just say at work?” I sure did and for the following reason. We love our partner, our kids, the dog and our family (most of the time)....