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" 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
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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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" Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing. "
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" When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won. "
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" Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" What works for one person's needs is almost always very different from the next. "
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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. "
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" We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs. "
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" On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day. "
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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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" It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost. "
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