{"id":1115,"date":"2019-08-04T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/wp\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2019-08-04T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T00:45:20","slug":"why-you-should-stop-trying-to-be-happy-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Stop Trying to Be Happy at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row \">\n<div class=\"content-area--article article-header column\">\n<div class=\"publication-date text-gray\">July 26, 2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"content-area--article column\">\n<div class=\"article article-first-row\">\n<p>So much is written about <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/09\/happiness-traps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">happiness at work<\/a> \u2014 yet judging from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/chairman\/212045\/world-broken-workplace.aspx?g_source=position1&amp;g_medium=related&amp;g_campaign=tiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gallup statistics<\/a>\u00a0that show 85% of employees aren\u2019t engaged, few know how to attain it. Given that the average person spends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/disturbing-facts-about-your-job-2011-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">90,000 hours<\/a> at work in a lifetime, it\u2019s important to figure out how to feel better about the time you spend earning a living. Here\u2019s the catch, though: If you set happiness as your primary goal, you can end up feeling the opposite. This is because happiness (like all emotions) is a fleeting state, not a permanent one. An alternative solution is to make meaning your vocational goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/search?term=susan%20peppercorn\">Susan Peppercorn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2019\/07\/why-you-should-stop-trying-to-be-happy-at-work?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">Why You Should Stop Trying to Be Happy at Work<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, 2019 So much is written about happiness at work \u2014 yet judging from\u00a0Gallup statistics\u00a0that show 85% of employees aren\u2019t engaged, few know how to attain it. Given that the average person spends 90,000&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=1115\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","odd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}