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Research Findings About Sticking To New Year’s Resolutions

Goals, Mindfulness, Motivation, Tâm Lý Tích Cực / My Holland

“I’ll stop smoking from here on in.” “I resolve to pay my debts and I.O.U’s on a more regular basis.” “I’ll do some jogging every morning or do some brisk walking at night when I’m unable to get up from bed at sunrise.” With the onset of 2019, these are some of the most common New Year’s resolutions (not too many resolved to be less sexually active) you’ll hear from family and friends, colleagues and associates at work and school mates. Funny thing is … like promises, as some cynics might say, they’re meant to be broken. Let’s see what research has to say about these. Conducted by researchers at the University of Scranton, a 2014 survey found that seventy-seven percent (77%) of people stuck to their New Year’s resolutions during the first week. Six months after, this figure goes spiraling down to forty-six percent (46%). Given that fifty-five percent (55%) of resolutions are related to health and fitness and twenty percent (20%) has to do with paying off financial obligations, human behavior experts and psychologists felt this was quite disconcerting and dug deeper to get a better understanding as to why this happens. An analysis on the subject led by Ayelet Fishbach from the University of Chicago and Kaitlin Woolley of Cornell University found that, in a nutshell, people were less likely to stick to a resolution or a goal that did not offer an immediate payoff, or at least a reward that is obvious and can easily be seen. So what does one have to do to stick and follow through on a New Year’s resolution? Michelle Segar, director of Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Center at the University of Michigan says the trick is … to “feel like every little bit of self-improvement counts.” In other words, if you’re planning to join a ten kilometer (10K) marathon, you don’t train for just one day. Neither can you pay off a business or student loan with a single check? As the popular saying goes … there aren’t any elevators to reaching a goal. You gotta take the stairs. Some of the other hard-working tips that will help you stick to your guns re New Year’s resolutions are : Stay away from temptations. If you resolve to stop smoking, stay away from people who smoke and pubs and bars that have that hard-to-ignore cigarette fragrance permeating the air. Plan a course of action. Resolving to pay off debts regularly? Calendarize it or have your payroll guy at the office deduct a portion of your paycheck each payday. And, most importantly, should you backslide into something you resolved to stop doing, it’s not the end of the world. Don’t give up on the goal or the resolution altogether. Stick to it like glue.

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Did You Know You Could Communicate Your Emotions In 3 Surprising Ways?

Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, Mindfulness, Tâm Lý Tích Cực / My Holland

A respected researcher, Sigal Barsade who’s been looking into and studying emotional contagion for many years says emotions spread among people like a virus that thrives in the air. From her findings and observations from other research studies on the subject, here are three ways through which your emotions are actually spread : The inflection of your voice – It’s one of the principal ways we transmit how we feel to other people and generally, they’re able to grasp the feelings they deduce from the tone of our voice. In other words, it’s not so much what you say, but how you say it. In an interesting study conducted by Roland Neumann and Franz Strack, they had participants listened to several actors reading an impartial spiel using happy, sad, and neutral inflections. The findings? The group who listened to the actor with a positive inflection reported feeling optimistic. Those who stayed with the actor with sad inflection didn’t like it at all. Our tiny facial muscles – Experts say that when we talk with other people, we are unaware that we’re mimicking the micro-movements of the other person’s facial muscles. This happens automatically in milliseconds, without us being conscious of it. Be it their lips, eyebrows or eyes, we’re actually attuned to the subtle movements of other peoples’ tiny facial muscles. For instance, when you see a guy who just spotted a tiger nearby, your brain cells, called mirror neurons decode the other person’s facial expression as an expression of his fear. This involuntary mimicking activates a mental and emotional state that jives with the other person so that you yourself also feel his fear and could have spelled the difference between life and death. Facebook posts- While the previous two surprising ways emotions are spread mostly have to do with subconscious movements and mimicry, verbal and non-verbal cues, a A study done by Facebook and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States says emotional contagion can also happen based only on words. In this study Facebook steered users news feeds towards mostly positive or mostly negative content. The users’ subsequent posts turned out to be either more positive or more negative depending on which group they were in. These observations indicate that emotions expressed by others on Facebook also influence our emotions, constituting evidence (though experimental) that this expansive emotional contagion could also occur and in fact, be happening in social media. So, what’s the point of all this? This whole exercise says we’re spreading our emotions without knowing it or simply being unaware of it. So, if you want to make sure you’re spreading what you’d like to transmit, then take care of yourself, emotionally.

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Why You Should Have A Workplace Health Program

Mindfulness, Tâm Lý Tích Cực, Wellbeing / My Holland

It’s a no brainer. A worker healthy in mind and body is a productive worker. No sensible manager is going to argue that. And yet, there are still countless companies and business outfits with no health program or anything resembling that. There’s a wide range of reasons why such a deplorable situation continues to exist today in the business world. These could run from the insensitive management to issues of costs in implementing one, or to perceived indifference of the work force. For the most part though, more than anything else, it has to do with not knowing how to go about setting up one. If you search the internet, you’ll discover various website resources that could be a big help in putting up your company’s workplace health program. A good starting point might just be – These are the guys who have been in the business for years providing different types of motivational services that include health programs at the workplace involving reputable companies around the globe. But until you check them out and start making some decisive moves, it’ll make sense for the meantime for you to get a fuller understanding of what a health program is all about. What Is A Healthy Workplace? In layperson’s terms, a healthy workplace is one where management and the rank and file employees work hand in hand to support and promote good health. Acknowledged widely to be the five cornerstones of promoting good health at work are: encouraging company employees to eat well, move a lot, keep a healthy weight, be liberated from cigarette smoke and have a healthy mind. Your company must support and build these healthy behaviors and help ensure that the choices they have to make in regard to these are made a lot easier. Why Is There A Need For A Healthy Workplace? The facts and figures gathered through the years, which point to a workplace health program being definitely a positive, say: The healthiest Australian employees are three times more productive than their peers. The increase in diseases which could have been prevented and workplace injuries due to unhealthy lifestyle is a major cause of absences or disruption in the workplace. The risk factors such as excessive intake of alcohol, poor diet, smoking, inactivity, and obesity could be contributory to time away from work. The loss in productivity due to absenteeism because of excessive weight, going to work while sick and premature deaths are estimated to cost six point four billion dollars ($6.4 billion) per year. As an employer or one of the key managers of a company, this data should urge you to advocate and work for a health program. The Lunar New Year has just started. Why not make a New Year’s resolution to go big time for this workplace health program? Not only will it improve your company’s productivity. It’ll also give your people a greater resource for enjoying life in and outside of the workplace.

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