Creating Great Workplace Habits

Up to 40% of our ordinary day is shaped by our habits. If we have habits that work for us, we're far more likely to be happier, healthier, and more productive.And in this series of videos, I am going to show you how to understand your own nature when it comes to habits, because it turns out that's the most important thing. When you understand yourself, you can set up your habits in the way that's right for you. Because so often if you've tried and failed and gotten discouraged because you haven't been able to change an important habit,it's not because you lack willpower, it's not because you're not motivated.

It's because you haven't set up the habit in the way that's right for you. And we're gonna go through very specifically all the different ways that you can understand how you might be like other people, or different from other people. So you can set up the habit in the way that's going to give you the success that you want. Because when change our habits, we change our lives.

I am an opener, starting something new, rather than a finisher.

Upholders, Questioners, Obligers and Rebels are the four tendency. Upholders readily meet outer and inner expectations, they need a work deadline to keep a new year's resolution without much fuss. Questioners question all expectations. They'll do something if they think it makes sense. You have to convince them that it's not arbitrary, it's not inefficient, it's a good use of their time. Once they decide, they will absolutely meet that expectation. Obligers readily meet outer expectations, but they struggle to meet inner expectations, so they have no trouble meeting the work deadline, but they're going to have trouble keeping that new year's resolution.And then finally, rebels. Rebels resist all expectations, outer and inner expectations alike. They want to do what they want to do, in their own way. If you ask or tell them to do something,they're very likely to resist, and they don't even like to tell themselves what to do. And the tendency that you fall into will make a very big difference on how you best form habits, and also how you manage other peoples' habits.

Source: Gretchen Rubin on Creating Great Workplace Habits (Linkedin)

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