So take some strategic stops away from the nonstop busyness and stresses of your life to give yourself a shot of “feel good” energy. You have the opportunity to be intentional about accessing those built-in boosts. Have fun with this chart! Remember, resilience and stress management, as well as happiness, don’t happen magically. Have you noticed how any of these activities listed in the four categories have made you feel? Experiment to see what happens to your positive energy? What kind of a boost do you get? How does that activity make you feel? Are there other activities not on this list that might even combine all four neurochemicals as a boost to you? If I’m singing to my wife I’m getting oxytocin (the love hormone) and giving her an oxy boost too! Who knew music could be an all-encompassing chemical shot in the arm. If I’m playing for my mood I’m getting seratonin (the mood stabilizer). If I’m practicing my piano I’m getting dopamine (being rewarded for my practice) or endorphin (the pain killer boost). Love it!įor another example, I had a reader write me about this list, asking the question, “Where does playing a musical instrument fit into these four categories?” Great question! And even if, upon review of my list, I realize that I completed something that wasn't on my list, I add it and then check it off. □įor example, one of my energy boosts is completing a task on my To Do list - when I check that "baby" off as Done I get a shot of dopamine feel good energy. We need to be intentional about accessing them via strategic stops in our busy lives. Resilience and managing stress don't appear magically. Tagged: motivation, workplace, workplaceculture, leadership, management, dignity at work, mindset, selftalk matters, stress, communication, people development, human dignity, dignity What could you do to increase your own sense of personal dignity? What could you do to empower someone else's dignity? What a different workplace we would enjoy if that could happen every day. We need our dignity to be acknowledged by ourselves (by shifting our own negative self talk) and by others (by shifting to a more positive way of behaving and communicating with each other). And ultimately they burn out with no reserves for resilience. When our human dignity is diminished-whether from others or from ourselves-we either "fight back" in order to hurt the one diminishing us, or we withdraw, become depressed, and hold it all inside, often blaming ourselves.Įither way, people get hurt and damaged. No wonder she had disengaged from work and was on the verge of quitting. She became aware that her self talk was highly destructive to her sense of self and worth. *One client, when I asked about how she was feeling, went on to downplay and berate herself with very negative words. *Another client said with sadness, "I don't think my supervisor has ever complimented me or given me appreciation for all my hard work once since I've been here. He said, "Totally diminished or totally angry." *Another client reported to me that during team meetings the leader regularly shouted at everyone whenever there was a mistake. *When I asked one of my clients how her work was going, her response was, "I feel so unimportant, like I don't really matter."
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