Working should make you happy 🐲🐉💗

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Those who believes in living life to the fullest and making the most out of every day
Everyone wants to be happy and engaged at work.
We want to enjoy what we do, feel satisfied and fulfilled.
The tricky thing is, we tend to treat work motivation and engagement as something that is an element of the job – we either have a job that is interesting or a job that is boring.
On the contrary, feeling engaged and motivated at work is up to you, more than you realize!
There is this general notion that some people are lucky to have their dream job, a job that is fulfilling, satisfying and makes them happy and motivated, while others – most of probably – have to ‘suffer’ in our regular, not-so-engaging jobs.

Is it true though?

Are consider to a zestful person. Zest makes an individual loaded with positive vitality that emanates from him to others around. In it lies true happiness, satisfaction, and a deep sense of value.

Paulo Coelho said:

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel positive energy.

Zest is an essential component of positive psychology and a standout amongst the most instrumental character qualities we have. It can be a powerful tool for self-improvement

Zestful people perform tasks wholeheartedly and focus more on the positive aspects of life. They are the ones who will hold tight and not give up during times of distress. It is a positive trait that also includes ingredients of empathy, compassion, enthusiasm, and ethics, which is why it is one of the most efficient personality dispositions that we possess.

The core idea of zest is ‘to live and not just exist.’

Being engaged and motivated at work is a result of

your physical energy levels
your dedication to what you do, and
how absorbed you are in your job.
In other words, even if your job is sometimes less than ideal, you can work with what you got, to increase your motivation levels.

So, how does it work in your brain?

It’s simple. Your motivation levels depend largely on your brain’s reward and response system: when you work on something that stimulates you in a positive way, your brain becomes engaged and releases dopamine into your prefrontal cortex.
Dopamine is our ‘feel-good’ hormone, usually activated in situations such as winning, learning, helping others, etc. And because our brain likes dopamine, such activities can become addictive, and voilà, we have our first motivator in the brain.

There is the other side of the motivation coin though – the threat response, located in your hypothalamus. Anything that may be perceived as a threat releases serotonin, which in turn, prepares your body to a potential ‘fight or flight’ response. So, anything that can threaten your survival – your brain makes you want to avoid it.

if we look at your motivation and engagement at work, it becomes more interesting: the rewards and positive feeling should occur on three parallel levels: physical, cognitive, and emotional, to give you a state of engagement. In other words, it’s not just the content of your job that matters, but also how you think and how you feel physically and emotionally.

Although that may seem like common sense, people tend to forget that their physical state determines to a large extent how motivated they are at work

Make a list of ‘boring’ tasks and do them

staying constantly engaged is not good for you! You need to alter your tasks at work between engaging, stimulating tasks and tasks that are inherently boring.

Work absorption

;is the state of flow you experience when you’re at work. Do you know those moments when you are fully concentrated and happily engrossed in what you do? When the time flies by and you don’t think of detaching from your task? Yes – that is work absorption.

Dedication at work means that you are strongly and truly involved in what you do, because you feel proud, inspired and enthusiastic about your job. In addition, dedication is linked with how much you identify yourself with what you do. For example, if your job allows you to use your strengths and skills, if the tasks you do are aligned with your goals and values – you’re more likely to feel dedicated to your work.

Interestingly, the opposite of dedication at work is cynicism, an inclination to mistrust others and doubt their good intentions. So, on one hand we have a dedicated person that is feeling the ownership and dedication of their work, and on the other – someone who has a very skeptical attitude towards their work and coworkers.
Deal with it and stay dedicated? & there you go ;)

Zest is an emotional capacity involving a strong will-power.
zest as a primarily important factor for life satisfaction and an overall sense of self.
It predicts a person’s happiness and level of contentment from his work life and his personal life!
Feeling lively and high-spirited everyday conditions our brain to form neural networks that make us feel joyful, which is why zestful people don’t have to put in much effort to extract positivity – they reflect it spontaneously.

Zestful people are:

Great performers
High achievers
Excellent team workers
Good life partners
Empathetic and compassionate
Encouraging others and themselves
Good listeners and communicators
By finding the elements that align your values and your goals with what you do, you can increase your levels of work motivation. In other words, find a way to identify yourself with your job to increase your engagement.

Feel fully engaged at work, we must get challenged from time to time, because without being challenged, we cannot grow Challenges help us focus our attention and can make you more dedicated. So, feeling challenged at work is good for you!