Alexander Kjerulf Quotes

You know you've found your calling, when you would rather do it and fail, than not do it.

Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful.

When in doubt, ask yourself this: What would a really happy person do? Then do that.

If you slave away every day at a job you hate and come home drained and frustrated, what is that teaching your kids?

You will spend more of your waking hours at work than anything else. If that time doesn't make you happy it's a huge waste of life.

Don't work harder, work happier.

You make a difference for every single person you come into contact with at work. Is that difference for the better or worse?

Remember: Research shows that emotions are contagious. How will you infect others at work today?

Get up and move at work today! Don't spend the whole day on your butt. Take a walk. Get some exercise. Play a game. Move!

Studies consistently show that happy companies are way more productive, creative and service-oriented than unhappy ones. Therefore, the happy companies will beat the pants off the unhappy ones in the market place. The future of business is happy! It’s inevitable.

Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It’s about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It’s about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.

The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don’t commit to being happy at work, you won’t be. You won’t make the choices that make you happy. You won’t take the actions needed to get there. You won’t change the things that need to change.

See, happiness at work is an emotion. It comes from inside of you, and like all other emotions it is difficult to define, but inescapable once it’s present. Or not present. Can you define love? Poets have tried for thousands of years and aren’t getting much closer. But when you’re feeling love, you’re acutely aware of it, even though you have no formal definition.

Seriously: Do you want to spend your working life simply being satisfied? When you look back on 50 years spent in business, do you want to be able to say, “Well, I was satisfied"?? No! Make happiness your goal. As in, “Let’s make this a workplace where people are happy to work." As in, “I’ve been working for 50 years now, and it absolutely rocks! To me work is challenging, stimulating and just plain fun.

Want to have better and more effective meetings? Get rid of the tables in your meeting room. It's weird but it works.

Who will you make happy at work today? What will you do? Remember – really small things can have a huge effect.

You can’t be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that’s cool—it’s always OK to have a bad day at work.