This is the second blog in a series on how to enhance your happiness at work, and it’s looking at making the most of opportunities:  opportunities to use your skills and abilities and opportunities to grow and develop. 

It’s incredibly important for your happiness at work to feel successful.  Pride is one of the very best forms of work happiness.  In a good job, you feel pride in yourself – that satisfying sense that you’re good at what you do –  weekly. In a great job, you feel it daily.    

Also key to happiness at work is having the opportunity to grow and develop.  Having the chance to progress and stretch yourself at work provides fantastic scope for personal growth – and thus for work happiness.  It’s great practice for building your life skills of confidence and sociability to put yourself out of your comfort zone and try something new at work. 

In most jobs there will be a range of development opportunities – to take on new work, deliver training, meet new people or go for promotion. I would urge you to make the most of these opportunities.  Don’t wait til you think you’re ready!  If they are available to you, go for it and learn on the job. If you wait until you’re less busy or until you hit every detail of the job description, you might be waiting a long time and miss the moment. 

So a step you can take right now to enhance your happiness at work is to look for more opportunities – for feeling pride and for feeling stretch.  Just take a minute to reflect on the types of activities at work that bring you pride, that you know you are good at, and that make you feel capable and accomplished. Also make a note of any development opportunities that you might have at the back of your mind but you’ve been putting off. 

Make a commitment to yourself to put yourself forward for more of these pride-giving activities and to take the first step towards a development opportunity.  Diving into these opportunities is a great way to increase your happiness at work.  Send me a message to let me know what opportunities you’re making the most of today.

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