5 Things to remember how not to get emotionally-affected in your workplace.
Too much sensitivity might ruin your performance.
Dealing with stress in your job is inevitable every day. From the moment you start your day browsing and responding to emails, attending an unexpected meeting in the midst of a bunch of urgent tasks you need to accomplish, up until the last hour of your shift yet you still need to report to your boss to provide an update for the day… all these office routine weighs to you and usually ended as stressors more than a daily reminder that you need to keep going.
Have I missed any office routine? Of course, accompanied by any circumstances in the workplace, we can never deflect our dealings with our workmates. It may be a professional or an emotional approach, eventually you will be needing some of these helpful reminders how not to draw into any occasion that might lead to internal conflicts or worst, dissension.
1) When under pressure and your officemates bug you to go on a 15-minute break- Go ahead!
Believe me, you still have enough time if you will focus on the tasks that are urgent and important. Ignoring that offer from your office friend only inhibits you from your sanity and will just distract you once you realized you really need time to refresh your mind. It’s only 15 minutes anyway… but don’t go beyond that especially if you’re obliged to accomplish specific tasks for the day.
2) Peer pressure is always a common ground for insecurities with anyone in the office. So don’t bother about it.
Every day is a competition. You may see yourself envious about hearing a batch mate’s promotion or overhearing an officemate’s luxurious travel to your favorite destination and you still can’t reward yourself because you lack a work-life balance this time in your career.
Cheer up. Focus on working for yourself first. Strive to achieve little things that satisfy you than pressuring yourself grabbing bigger goals that are undeniably unattainable for now. Splurge on your passions to impress yourself. Know that our chances come at the perfect time so don’t rush things around you. This may not be the right time for you but always remember to lift your goals higher even when you fail.
3) Sometimes it’s hard to leave your personal problems at home but you can!
If you’re currently in an unstable relationship, struggling with some financial problems, or any issues you’re still trying to resolve with, you have to manage your thoughts and weight them in terms of importance.
Most of the time we tend to have a subtle approach about our emotions but often times we are quite vulnerable to conquer it. And more often than not, we cannot guarantee to ourselves alone if we are on the right track of decision-making so we seek for SOS from people who we believed had overcome the same situation we are into. By then, we can become heuristic about our own struggles. Try picturing yourself winning the battles rather than weeping over reasons you think are the causes of your problems. Give yourself a deadline and never dwell on them for a longer time.
4) Never take anything against you.
You might have been noticing these past few days’ lack of credit for your efforts and diligence which in a way the reason why you’re out of focus and becoming a little heretic to your team’s ideologies during meeting. Hey, please always take into consideration that certain issues in the workplace never concern anyone’s emotional welfare.
Take a pause and take yourself into introspection. Stop presuming pessimistically on things and keep on collaborating your thoughts rationally with your colleagues rather than spreading negative vibes with anyone. It’s not bad to become cynical but limit yourself and maintain a positive outlook. You don’t want to become the basin of aversion at the end of the day, aren’t you?
5) Embrace Diversity!
We can choose a company or industry we want to be part of but choosing the set of people we want to work with is quite impossible. As the saying- first impressions last, you can take this as a way to discern to people you’ll be seeing every day in the office. Remember that we differ in personalities, ideas, and past experiences. We cannot judge a certain cause or effect based only by our own observation and understanding to people.
Closing Thoughts:
“Your emotional reaction to issues determine how you assess their risks and benefits. If you like something, you believe that the risks are smaller and the benefits greater than they actually are. If you don’t like something, the opposite is true. Risks and benefits appear to be dependent. Of course, in reality, they are not.” -an excerpt from the book, The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli on Why you are a slave to your emotions chapter.
As most psychological studies prove, we usually get ruled by our emotions more than our intuitions but I’ll take these as equilibrium in between the virtue of getting involved to different situations and dealing with downsides of it. What we can only manage is our own emotion toward other behaviors. Always look on a bigger picture. Think outside the box. We may have different personality types but at the end of the day, we all should have a sensible approach to anything around us.
Written By: Hannah Dani
Dealing with stress in your job is inevitable every day. From the moment you start your day browsing and responding to emails, attending an unexpected meeting in the midst of a bunch of urgent tasks you need to accomplish, up until the last hour of your shift yet you still need to report to your boss to provide an update for the day… all these office routine weighs to you and usually ended as stressors more than a daily reminder that you need to keep going.
Have I missed any office routine? Of course, accompanied by any circumstances in the workplace, we can never deflect our dealings with our workmates. It may be a professional or an emotional approach, eventually you will be needing some of these helpful reminders how not to draw into any occasion that might lead to internal conflicts or worst, dissension.
1) When under pressure and your officemates bug you to go on a 15-minute break- Go ahead!
Believe me, you still have enough time if you will focus on the tasks that are urgent and important. Ignoring that offer from your office friend only inhibits you from your sanity and will just distract you once you realized you really need time to refresh your mind. It’s only 15 minutes anyway… but don’t go beyond that especially if you’re obliged to accomplish specific tasks for the day.
2) Peer pressure is always a common ground for insecurities with anyone in the office. So don’t bother about it.
Every day is a competition. You may see yourself envious about hearing a batch mate’s promotion or overhearing an officemate’s luxurious travel to your favorite destination and you still can’t reward yourself because you lack a work-life balance this time in your career.
Cheer up. Focus on working for yourself first. Strive to achieve little things that satisfy you than pressuring yourself grabbing bigger goals that are undeniably unattainable for now. Splurge on your passions to impress yourself. Know that our chances come at the perfect time so don’t rush things around you. This may not be the right time for you but always remember to lift your goals higher even when you fail.
3) Sometimes it’s hard to leave your personal problems at home but you can!
If you’re currently in an unstable relationship, struggling with some financial problems, or any issues you’re still trying to resolve with, you have to manage your thoughts and weight them in terms of importance.
Most of the time we tend to have a subtle approach about our emotions but often times we are quite vulnerable to conquer it. And more often than not, we cannot guarantee to ourselves alone if we are on the right track of decision-making so we seek for SOS from people who we believed had overcome the same situation we are into. By then, we can become heuristic about our own struggles. Try picturing yourself winning the battles rather than weeping over reasons you think are the causes of your problems. Give yourself a deadline and never dwell on them for a longer time.
4) Never take anything against you.
You might have been noticing these past few days’ lack of credit for your efforts and diligence which in a way the reason why you’re out of focus and becoming a little heretic to your team’s ideologies during meeting. Hey, please always take into consideration that certain issues in the workplace never concern anyone’s emotional welfare.
Take a pause and take yourself into introspection. Stop presuming pessimistically on things and keep on collaborating your thoughts rationally with your colleagues rather than spreading negative vibes with anyone. It’s not bad to become cynical but limit yourself and maintain a positive outlook. You don’t want to become the basin of aversion at the end of the day, aren’t you?
5) Embrace Diversity!
We can choose a company or industry we want to be part of but choosing the set of people we want to work with is quite impossible. As the saying- first impressions last, you can take this as a way to discern to people you’ll be seeing every day in the office. Remember that we differ in personalities, ideas, and past experiences. We cannot judge a certain cause or effect based only by our own observation and understanding to people.
Closing Thoughts:
“Your emotional reaction to issues determine how you assess their risks and benefits. If you like something, you believe that the risks are smaller and the benefits greater than they actually are. If you don’t like something, the opposite is true. Risks and benefits appear to be dependent. Of course, in reality, they are not.” -an excerpt from the book, The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli on Why you are a slave to your emotions chapter.
As most psychological studies prove, we usually get ruled by our emotions more than our intuitions but I’ll take these as equilibrium in between the virtue of getting involved to different situations and dealing with downsides of it. What we can only manage is our own emotion toward other behaviors. Always look on a bigger picture. Think outside the box. We may have different personality types but at the end of the day, we all should have a sensible approach to anything around us.
Written By: Hannah Dani
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