WORK LIKE YOUR DOG

        WORK LIKE YOUR DOG

Work like a dog is an inspiring call to the readers to "come out and play" at work. People spend more time working, thinking about work, and traveling to and from work than all other waking activities combined. Employees are asked to do more for less-making their work lives more exhausting and less satisfying.  Having more fun at work isn’t a fantasy. It is a smart and savvy strategy to becoming a more creative, productive, and dynamic employee. The author advises to take pleasure from tasks, reduce levels of stress and recharge their creative side.

This article divided  in to three parts, in the first part he described the work as a game, in the second author described how to turn problems into opportunities and the last he advised how to learn to laugh and play with life.

1.     The Game of Work: first of all we have to know the rules of the game and he compares our work like a game.  When our life at work serves us an ace, many of us act as if it's the end of the world. Even the smallest of problems or mistakes can get blown completely out of proportion. We spend all kinds of time and energy living in the past, analyzing, criticizing, making excuses, worrying, and generally making ourselves miserable. "Hey, nobody's perfect -- how can I learn from my mistakes if I never make any" the author wants everybody to say this to himself. Everybody has to see every situation as an opportunity to play, to celebrate and to learn how to work less, play more and earn more. "The better you feel about yourself, the less likely you are to take yourself too seriously and the more you are able to laugh at yourself and the things that may go wrong all around you." In fact, if you haven't been rejected recently, then you probably haven't been trying hard enough. The author explained beautifully our pet dogs spend their days along with you. Waiting for your order, showing enthusiasm in the work we give, doing the things just like play and many more things and advise us to have fun at work and do the work differently and celebrate the fun. And as rule of play we have to play fair game and he compares ethics as good business.

2.     Turn the problems into Opportunities: The author advises to change the way you view the world and see the flowers in the garbage. In this part he explains three secrets of stress reduction, one out of them is-every person has to rethink in the difficult situations to get rid of. He also explains three ways to turn fights into frolics. Everybody has to learn to be happy when unhappy things happen.

3. Learning to laugh and play with life: Surround your self with people who like to laugh and play, stay in touch with your friends and live in the movement but not for the movement. He tells two ways to practice having fun. The author disagrees with the proverb "Practice makes perfect, rather he tells that "Practice makes permanent." In other words, if we practice something enough, it becomes habitual. And if we want to live a good life, which is meaningful, joyful, and happy, we need lots and lots of practice. If you want to become more comfortable  playing in your life think what can you change in your life?   And lastly the author advises us to take the pledge "I want you to lighten up on me already, will you! Now, let's go to work and have some fun".

By Book by Luke Barber and Matt Weinstein