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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
Family
Love
People
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" The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering. "
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Heart Disease
Knowledge
" 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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Doing
Organization
" 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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You
" 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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Friend
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. "
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Enough
Moments
Positive
" Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests. "
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Positive
Yourself
" 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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Look
Hope
Future
" 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
" 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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Night
Decision
Good
" 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
" I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does. "
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Act
Life
Decision
" 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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Work
Safety
Recognition
" 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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You
Time
People
" 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. "
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Need
More
People
" What works for one person's needs is almost always very different from the next. "
Tom Rath
Next
Almost
Always
" 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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Sweet
Work
American Dream
" Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life. "
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Day
Care
Ideas
" I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing. "
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Language
Away
You
" 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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Choice
Small
Big
" Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that. "
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Always
Long-Term
Positive
" 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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Daily
More
People
" The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life. "
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Healthy
Odds
Long
" When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business. "
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Boss
Health
Good
" 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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More
Energy
Think
" Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs. "
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Among
Friendships
Needs
" There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I've looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in terms of social expectations, where, say, we tell people we're going to run a 5K. "
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Research
Discipline
People
" 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. "
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Positive
Good
Optimism
" 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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Accountant
Reality
Numbers
" 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. "
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Happiness
Important
Talk