How to treat the work as summer camp

We all remember how cool, fun, and well we had a child in summer camps. These impressions, we are lacking in our adult lives, especially when we are engaged in the affairs of the workers. For information on how to return the children's experiences in their adult life, you will learn by reading this article.

Many of us were fond memories of summer camps. Every year I was looking forward to the summer to go there again: forest, lake, friends... excellent and a favorite pastime!

Why are people so like summer camp? They have everything you need for happiness. With work, as a rule, things are different. But there's good news: you can take some of the elements of summer camp to do their jobs more amazing.

1. Let you will have something that you will look forward to every day

In the children's camp days are always full of surprises and rich. In one day you can swim, and learn to do something with their hands, and in the evening to sing songs around the campfire. At work, as a rule, you have to perform many routine tasks before proceeding to the really interesting activity that attracts you in your profession.

To make your working day less routine, make yourself a schedule of tasks. Make it all that you need to perform on the job for today. For example, if you be a boring meeting, treat it as a necessary step to move to more interesting tasks, and not as a dominant of the work. This can be compared with the campaign: there will certainly be and songs around the campfire, and pleasant conversation, and delicious kebabs. But for all this, you first need to settle down and spread out the tent.

Let routine work tasks will be for you this very tent - a condition for further interesting pastime.

2. Make sure you feel progress in their work

If you start to learn something in the camp, you will in most cases this will learn. You put a puppet show or spletote friendship bracelets, which then donate their camp comrades. This allows you to feel independent and happy.

This principle can be used in the work, too. For his book "The principle of progress" Stephen Kramer and Teresa Amabile conducted research: distributed to people diaries that experiment participants had to record significant events in working life and their emotional response to them. As a result, Steven and Teresa analyzed about 12,000 diary and found that that staff worked as efficiently as possible, they need to feel progress in their work, even minor.

Successes motivate. Unfortunately, in today's realities of organizational culture of the majority of companies do not take into account this relationship. If possible, try to participate in any project from start to finish, and you'll be surprised when you realize how much of your success affect your motivation.

3. Go outside and walk

Fresh air, is known to improve mood. Just as physical exercise. Summer camp and has both.

Working in the office often means that you have to sit in an artificially lit room with a small window. Joyless prospect, but the beauty is that you the strength to change it.

When you next time will be needed a short break rather than to bury his nose in a Facebook or check e-mail, go outdoors. Walk briskly around your office building, and to their workplace, you will return more energetic.

4. Try to communicate with people

Communication with their fellows - one of the most important elements of human happiness. In the children's camp, we have hundreds of opportunities to spend time with other people. Sometimes you do not even eat up your breakfast, to quickly get back to your friends.

At work, you certainly do not want to "compel" people to communicate in their non-working hours and even more do not want to distract them from the work of empty conversations. But here is to go around the office for lunch once a week - a good reason to make sure that all employees have the opportunity to get to know each other better and socialize in a relaxed atmosphere. Still it is possible to organize a campaign for the afternoon coffee in a nearby cafe - it can be very fun.

5. Change your perception of time

The final reason why the children are so much like summer camp: it separates them from a long school year school. It is because you know that your summer vacation is not infinite, you want to start plenty of new friends, learn as many as possible - in other words, make sure that you had that recall.

The work, unfortunately, much more close to the daily life than those magical three summer months.

But we should not forget that, in all probability, your workplace today will not be the only one in your life. Most likely, you decide to move on after a few years. If, say, you are to get a new job every four years and working year lasts 2000 hours, which means that each work takes 8000 hours of your life. Knowing this, what would you like to receive from now on? What would you like to remember? In answering these questions, you increase the chances that a certain number of years you will remember this work with warmth. Of course, not with the immense heat that you feel, recalling his summer vacation, yet you still have fond memories.