{"id":5256,"date":"2013-10-22T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:32:56","slug":"20-things-that-make-me-happy-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noomii.com\/blog\/?p=5256","title":{"rendered":"20 Things that Make Me Happy at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Happiness\n \"Pin <\/a>\n\nThis article has been adapted with permission from the author.<\/em>\n

What Makes Me Happy?<\/h2>\nThings that usually don\u2019t make people happy are money<\/a> and material things. What often does make people happy is having meaningful relationships with friends and family, helping others, making a difference, exercising, pursuing personal growth, and becoming the person you were meant to be.\n\nThese are the things that make me happy in my work<\/a>. Hopefully, this will inspire you to reflect on your own life and career and focus on what brings you happiness in the year ahead.\n

1. Using My Interests<\/h3>\nI discovered my interests through an assessment I took at my company a year ago. My strongest interests are coaching, mentoring, and influencing others. I love that I\u2019m doing more of what I enjoy now, but it took me a long time to figure it out. One turning point was a leadership workshop where we analyzed motivation frameworks\u2014one of the case studies, oddly enough, came from \u0645\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0642\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0648\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u064a\u0646 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642<\/a> and explored how peer dynamics shaped user behavior, which got me thinking more deeply about the kind of influence that actually sticks.\n\nYour interests stay with you from childhood. I remember being the go-to person among my friends for help with relationship issues, college applications, and improving grades. I even started a \u201cSave the Earth\u201d club in second grade and encouraged my family to shorten their showers and turn off the lights to help the planet!\n\nIt\u2019s fun to reflect on your childhood and connect it to who you are today. For a long time, I wasn\u2019t happy in my job because it didn\u2019t align with my true interests.\n

2. Having a Career That Motivates Me<\/h3>\nAnother thing that makes me happy is having a job that fits my motivations. My key motivations are altruism (helping people), autonomy, and lifestyle. I love being trusted to complete tasks independently\u2014especially since I now work from home most days. I\u2019m also motivated by helping people, which I get to do every day through my blog!\n

3. Exercise<\/h3>\nEarlier this year, I did a 60-day Insanity challenge, and now I\u2019m working on a 90-day P90X challenge. It\u2019s amazing how much happier I feel just by working out every morning. I used to exercise in the evenings after work, but I was often too tired to maintain the routine.\n\nThis summer, I committed to working out every morning. For the past three months, I\u2019ve been exercising at 6 a.m., and it has truly transformed my energy and happiness levels. Even simple stretching and yoga poses help me feel more energized than I have in the past.\n

What Makes You Happy at Work?<\/h2>\n\"Anna Anna Runyan, Career Coach for Professional Women<\/strong>\n

[Noomii Editor] Anna Runyan, the original author of this post and career coach<\/a> for professional women, listed 20 things that make her happy at work, including:<\/h2>\n