Congratulations: you’ve survived the first weeks of the year back at work. You may not feel much like celebrating, however: Blue Monday — the third Monday of January, and supposedly the most depressing day of the year — lies ahead, followed by another 50 weeks of 2016, a fair proportion of which will be full of Bad Days. You know the ones: the commute from hell, run-ins with irritating colleagues, and yet more unrealistic deadlines from your boss.
But before you collapse, sobbing, on your desk, there is good news. According to Caroline Webb, a former partner at management consultancy McKinsey, those awful days could be a thing of the past. Using a combination of psychology and neuroscience, she has written a book designed to help you have a good day at work every single day.
“So many people are having days of dissatisfaction,” says Webb, whose book How to Have a Good Day: Think Bigger, Feel Better and Transform Your Working Life is out this week. “It’s sort of accepted. We talk about having a bad day at work as if it is something we have to put up with. But I found that with small tweaks I could make a big difference to how people felt.”
Her tips include “single tasking” and no email “grazing.”
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