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" Exercise is not enough. Working out three times a week is not enough. Being active throughout the day is what keeps you healthy. "
Tom Rath
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" Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work. "
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" People who say they have a best friend at work are seven times as likely to be engaged in what they're doing. And if they don't have a best friend at work, the odds of being engaged are just 1 in 12. "
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" Half an hour of exercise in the morning makes for better interactions all day. Then a sound night of sleep gives me energy to tackle the next day. I am a more active parent, a better spouse, and more engaged in my work when I eat, move, and sleep well. "
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" Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually. "
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" When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family. "
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" You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness. "
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" What works for one person's needs is almost always very different from the next. "
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" Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience. "
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" Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions - about how you eat, move, and sleep each day - count more than you think. As I have learned from personal experience, these choices shape your life. "
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" While the things that motivate us differ greatly from one person to the next, the outcomes do not. "
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" You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one. "
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" Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance. "
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" The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns. "
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" Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing. "
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" I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people. "
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" If a school makes an effort to provide kids the right foods and help them to be more active, this benefits the student and the family's health. If you embark on a program to improve your health with a church or community group, you are more likely to stick with it over time. "
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" I think the term 'friend' itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term 'good friend' is overused. Adding the word 'vital' provides a clear definition of what we mean. "
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" The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. "
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" Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that. "
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" Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization. "
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" For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures. "
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" Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs. "
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" What we've learned is that if you can make the right decision in the supermarket aisle, it's a heck of a lot easier to make a good decision when you reach in your cupboard when you're craving a snack at eight o'clock at night. "
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" The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life. "
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" The most important thing executives can do is send a very clear message to their employees that they care about each person's overall wellbeing and that they want to be a part of helping it improve over time. "
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" There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me. "
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" Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that. "
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" We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community. "
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