Most of us are not afraid to try new things; we just don’t make it a priority. Then, when we do try something new and realize how positive the experience was, we often kick ourselves for not having done it sooner. Trying new things enriches our lives in a number of ways: It allows us to learn and grow while adding a dimension of fun and excitement. It also broadens our perspective and gives us a lot more to talk about in our conversations with others. So, this year make it one of your New Year’s resolutions to try something new at least once a month. Things like trying a new restaurant, brightening the day of a complete stranger, baking something from “scratch,” or volunteering at a soup kitchen. If you do this, you’ll find life to be a richer, fuller and happier experience. Just for the record, I tried Swiss chard not long ago at a friend’s house after actively avoiding it my entire life–it was delicious! The same thing happened with sweet potatoes. Happy New Year!
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Recommended Reading
Instant Turnaround!: Getting People Excited About Coming to Work and Working Hard
Transform Your Workplace!
Imagine a company where people are excited about coming to work and giving their best efforts every day. In this innovative and engrossing business parable, Harry Paul and Ross Reck show managers at all levels how they can immediately and easily increase productivity by tapping into the discretionary effort of the people who work for them. Starting from the most basic aspect of business reality—that people intentionally regulate the amount of effort they put into their jobs based upon how they feel they’re being treated—the authors point out that the most important part of the job of every manager, team leader, supervisor, and executive is to treat people in such a way that they become excited about applying all their discretionary effort toward performing their jobs.
At the book’s center is the story of Nancy Kim, a human resources director at a magazine that is struggling with all the problems associated with unhappy employees—low productivity and morale along with high absenteeism and turnover. After she openly challenges the CEO’s new management-by-the-numbers system, she’s charged with turning the situation around immediately. Filled with real-world studies, Instant Turnaround! shows anyone how to turn the workplace into a destination—a place where working hard feels like hardly working because it’s engaging, enjoyable, and fulfilling.
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