Happiness at work is something that I believe, everyone would like. The actual perception of it does of course vary from person to person however, as with anything related to an individual’s happiness. This is due to the fact that we’re all unique and as such our notion of happiness is undoubtedly varied.

Happiness at work can be generated in a variety of ways:

• It may be that you love every single minute of every single day at work
• It may be that you earn so much money doing what you do that any dislike you may have for the actual work, is outweighed by the financial security and happiness that this generates.  In other words, money can to some extent buy you happiness, as long as you have enough time to go and spend / enjoy it!
• It may be that work is just OK but because you have fantastic colleagues around you, you’re happy at work
• It may be that you are happy in work as long as you are consistently challenged, the work is hard but rewarding in the extreme – great sense of satisfaction at the end of every day will increase happiness for you

Whichever of the above options applies to you can only be decided by you as a person and the reality is that you yourself may not even be sure which one you fit into, perhaps yours is a different situation altogether?

However, happiness at work is something generally sought by all.  As an average we spend 37.5 hours a week working out of the total 168 we’re given, which is just under a quarter of our time, and if one was to make an assumption that in a perfect world we all have 8 hours sleep per night as is recommended, then the reality is that it’s actually more like a third.

A third of our waking hours are spent working!  Now of course, work is an entirely necessary part of life. It provides us with structure, income and it’s to be hoped an extra social circle outside the people one would normally associate with. All of which are as positive an influence nowadays as they have ever been.  But is that enough if you’re spending a third of your waking hours unhappy? Surely that length of time spent unhappily will have an effect on the other two thirds we spend out of work?

The answer to this then is to ensure that you’re as happy as possible during your working hours, whether that means changing your job, finding ways to remove any obstacles which make your job harder or more frustrating, or simply finding ways to make it more fun for you.  These realisations can be difficult to find on your own as it’s often hard to think completely objectively regarding our own lives. This is where coaching can help enormously.

Discussing the problems you have with a qualified mind who is entirely focused on helping you achieve your goals can make all the difference. Taking an outside view and encouraging you to find your own answers whilst guiding you in the direction that’s right for you.

If you think you could benefit from career based coaching do get in touch.  I desperately want everyone to be happy at work, it is such a large chunk of our lives that there is no point in being unhappy when something can always be done.  Have a look at my new career page to find out how I can help you.

Also, as an aside, if you’ve read through the above and noted the average 37.5 hour working week with disdain, perhaps that’s something else you could look at?  Do you find you’re dealing with work at home? Or do you feel like a lot of the chores you have to do at home are as much a job as the one you spend the rest of your time doing?  In which case, just think what you would do if you could save 10 hours a week to spend as you wanted!

I can help you to have more time for you by working together for a few weeks, showing you a simple process to follow and making changes to your habits which will last.  Contact me and we can ensure you are happy in work sooner rather than later.

I suspect that nearly everyone would like to have more hours in the day, whether that’s to get more work done, spend more time with the family or just get more sleep.

If someone was to wave a magic wand and suddenly provide you with an extra couple of hours a day, what would you use the time for? Whatever your answer might be you probably think that actually short of someone with a magic wand appearing it’s a rather moot point as this isn’t in fact possible.

But what if there was a way?  What if you could learn some new strategies and techniques to ensure you always have time for the important things in life, like friends, family, ‘selfish time out’, more sleep and so on?  The good news is that there is a way.

Watch this short 1.5 minute video here showing the benefits of More hours in the day

This is a clear, proven, time saving process which enables you to save at least 10 hours a week, every week, so that you really can have time for your important activities.  Visit www.clairefuller.com/courses/save-10-hours-a-week for more information and to find out just how life changing this is.

It is vital to realise that actually spending time working towards being more effective and therefore saving time in the future is entirely worthwhile.  If you are worried that you don’t have time to find out how to save time because you are already working flat out then you are ideally placed to start working together!  Most of my clients are working too many hours and feeling exhausted when they contact me.  However from the moment we start working together, things start to improve and life becomes easier.

Madness is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.  We have to change the action to change the outcome, so making time to save time is the only way forward.  As with other areas of business you have to ‘speculate to accumulate’, after all how many businesses have suddenly boomed after extra capital has been injected, either by the owners or elsewhere via investment?

Don’t you think that time should be treated in the same way? You have to spend time to save time, even the terminology is the same as it is for financial equivalents.  Then again this isn’t really surprising given the commonly quoted mantra “Time is money.”  If you want to do things differently from now on, why wait?  The sooner you start to save time the sooner you will start to make life easier for yourself.

Wherever you are in the world, we can work together for a few weeks, or for as long as you like, to ensure you always make the best use of your time.

You can follow me on Twitter @Claire_Fuller for motivating and time saving tweets and to get to know me.  I look forward to meeting you.

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