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" I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does. "
Tom Rath
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" Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect. "
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" You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible. "
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Time
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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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More
People
" No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer. "
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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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Day
Sleep
" The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering. "
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Heart Disease
Knowledge
" When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day. "
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Life
Day
Look
" I'm a researcher, so I'm realistic that there's nothing I'm doing that's going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down. "
Tom Rath
Down
Future
Me
" I've seen the same thing emerge in the research around the interaction of sleeping and moving and eating: if you get a good night's sleep, you are significantly more likely to make the right choices about what you eat the next morning, you're more likely to work out, you're more likely to get a better night's sleep the next night. "
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Sleep
Good
Night
" 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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Clear
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" If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year's insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense. "
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Creativity
Day
Health
" 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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Giving
Relationships
Health
" The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life. "
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Healthy
Odds
Long
" 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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People
Change
Time
" You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness. "
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You
Greatness
Need
" When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job. "
Tom Rath
People
Time
Boss
" 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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Best
Friend
Work
" 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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Family
Love
People
" I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next. "
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Colleagues
Trying
People
" I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example. "
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Smart
People
Retirement
" I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers. "
Tom Rath
Team
Think
Trust
" 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. "
Tom Rath
Work
Safety
Recognition
" It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does. "
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Good
She
You
" When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness. "
Tom Rath
Happiness
Important
Talk
" People with high levels of wellbeing have been careful to work out early in the morning and not to have heavy meals throughout the day because you kind of fall off a cliff in terms of your energy by 2 or 3:00 if you have a lunch with a lot of heavy foods. "
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Morning
Day
Energy
" Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business. "
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Small
Business
People
" 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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Thinking
Doing
Organization
" When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week. "
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Week
Kindergarten
Competition
" 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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Age
Moment
Experience
" 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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Individual