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" Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each other, and even cry together. "

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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. "

Tom Rath

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Love

People

" The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician. "

" 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. "

" Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests. "

" 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. "

" On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day. "

" I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good. "

" I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation. "

" When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth. "

" No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer. "

Tom Rath

Healthy

Energy

" When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business. "

" At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed. "

Tom Rath

Need

People

" 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. "

" The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships. "

Tom Rath

Way

Thinking

" Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work. "

" Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer. "

" Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort. "

" Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis. "

" When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won. "

" Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing. "

" 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. "

" The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns. "

" 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. "

" We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community. "