Do you want to lift your mood, build resilience, and handle your emotions better at your workplace? Mental stability influences job performance and productivity, engagement with your work, communication with your coworkers, and your overall daily functioning and capabilities.
Depression interferes with a person’s ability to complete physical job tasks about 20% of the time and reduces cognitive performance about 35% of the time. There is a myriad of effective tools to strengthen your mental stability and prevent long-term psychological side effects.
These four habits have helped Shawn Henry, the founder of Efficient Home Services, to change his life for the better and run his multi-million dollar company confidently on his own. Are you a team leader or business owner? Since employees rely so heavily on guidance from leadership, these habits are a necessity for daily inspiration and better business practices as a whole.
1.Meditation
Meditation is a mind-body practice that’s been used for centuries to promote calmness, improve physiological balance, and improve overall health. Workplace stress affects most employees which can lead to poor decision-making, negative work relationships and even a weakened immune system. By increasing self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and positivity, meditation can make a huge impact on your presence in the workplace and help you become a better leader for your team.
Create your meditation lifestyle. For example, wake up at 6 am, start your morning meditation in the shower and visualize what your day will bring at the workplace. Visualize your day’s expectations and keep a schedule for when you will get to your workplace, your daily meetings, and your regular workouts. Regular meditation can help boost work performance, cultivate a positive culture, and improve employee wellness. Plus, it’s an easy way to help bring your team together and relieve some stress.
2.Choose Your Attitude And Keep Your Body Attuned
Your attitude is a form of expression of yourself. You are the creator in whether you choose to be happy, positive, and optimistic, or you can choose to be pessimistic and critical, with a negative outlook on your workday. A positive attitude helps you cope better under stressful situations at work.
The habit of a positive mindset is another excellent way of keeping your mind stable. This point includes saying or speaking positive things about yourself and others. Also, exercise daily, eat healthy foods that are rich in antioxidants, and avoid sugary beverages. Research has shown that thinking positively about yourself has a powerful effect on your overall well being.
3.Focus On A Single Thing
We’ve all had the experience of feeling overwhelmed at work. Maybe you’re inundated with projects or feel a sense of demotivation to complete assignments. Directly linked to motivation in the workplace is what is known as mindfulness. Be mindful of the present time.
Sometimes, working comes with difficult emotions that may weigh you down. Pay close attention to routine activities such as taking a shower, eating lunch, or going for an evening walk. Also, paying attention to sounds, tastes, and smells help you focus. If your mind tries to wander, bring it back to what you are doing. This practice refocuses your mind so that you can come back to your work feeling rejuvenated.
Focus helps boost memory recall. By choosing to concentrate on a single task at hand, then you can do it even better. Improving your concentration will enhance your memory stability and awareness of your environment.
4.Set Realistic Goals
Very lofty goals can distort your mind and cause you to stress if you fail to achieve. Decide what you want to accomplish daily in your work or business and plan how you will reach these goals. Workplace goals should be realistic, focus on making improvements, specific, measurable, and time-specific. Setting your goals at the level you can achieve will help you make sense of accomplishment toward your goal.
5.Be Inspired
Always be inspired. As a business owner or a team leader, you can only think of new ways to inspire your team and new ways to better your business if you are inspired. Fortunately, inspiration is not a static state of mind but a process that we can cultivate. While we can’t force ourselves to be inspired, we can create an environment that’s conducive to inspiration. There are lots of ways to gather fresh insights – take a class, read a book, attend professional gatherings, travel. As humans, we lack motivation when we’re not sure what to do next – stay at our current job, try out a new career, ask for a promotion. Having too many options can be paralyzing which can make you feel overwhelmed and you end up doing nothing. Narrow your options and decide where to start applying yourself.
Follow and implement these habits and improve your work performance. Outside of work performance, these habits will help you reduce anxiety and depression. Improved mental health will cause you and your employees to become mentally resilient to stress; improving decision-making, relationships at work and overall workflow of your team. The final result will be increased productivity and increased revenue and profits. In order to reach your full potential with your team, embrace these daily habits to improve the mental stability of both yourself and your employees.