When Work is Equal to Fun.

Make you workplace a fun place to be. Picture this: You end up spending half of the day travelling for and working in office, why would you not want it to be a fun yet performance-oriented time? Make your office a happier and a healthier place to be, sans gossip or involving in cheap talk. The best way to do it is to, well, no surprises there, work hard. If you work well and put in a decent load of effort, you will feel great. Separate yourself from the rest when it comes to fulfilling your responsibilities. The incredible sense of work ethic you can feel being in isolation is liberating to say the least. It’s fun, innit?

Let’s make it clear, though, that having fun in office does not mean injecting humour or silly puns in your talk. It simply means having to form a healthy work ethic, encouraging challenges and competition among colleagues, offering help to achieve a common goal, and so on. Plus planning for indoor games and recreational activities one can involve in to during break-time can also be a sure shot way of having fun. Let’s learn the tips to make work more fun:

Entertainment Galore: Do whatever you feel like when you have free time at work. That should never be at the cost of avoiding your work, though. Play a game, chit-chat with a colleague, invite a new colleague to take a coffee break with you, listen to music, be social, call up a long lost friend, or try to learn a language online.

Dress Nicely: When you come dressed like it was a special occasion, you do feel confident and special. Don’t you? Dressing up to work is a good way to feel fab and spend the day hearing compliments and admiration of your colleagues. That alone can add a lot of colour to your otherwise dull day.

Laugh at Yourself: No one can be right all the time. Let yourself loose and have the courage to laugh at yourself. The more you laugh, the better it is. You would not be able to enjoy work, and life in general, if you do not cultivate the habit of laughing at yourself. Implement this rule to your life and follow it every day.

Work is Equal to Fun: When all you and fellow colleagues work toward a common goal, when you experience a heart-mind-body-connect owing to the connected aim, it is then that the work becomes total fun. Do not trivialise the importance of working right. It can be quite relaxing. Just a little hard work and effort can keep the work from becoming dull and boring.

How do you have fun at work? Share with us in the comments’ section.

Quit Wasting Money!

There is a wide range of spending practices between those of the spendthrift and the miser. No one wants to be either, but we end up swinging between the two extremes. One way is to stop thinking of spending as an expenditure. Think of it as an investment and ensure that you get maximum returns. Here are six tips to stop wasting money:

Avoid Unplanned Debt: There are many uses of the plastic money cards you own, but shopping for fun at malls and putting unplanned and non-budgeted debt on yourself can put you under a lot of financial pressure. Use your credit cards only as conveniences; pay all dues promptly to avoid any interest. Interest on credit card debt is the highest!

Plan Expenses Around Regular Monthly Payments: When you get your pay, put away money for all your monthly bills – house rent, electricity, EMIs, phone, mobile, Wi-Fi, DTH service, and then set aside for your monthly grocery needs. Set aside for your investment plans. Now you know how much you can spend for entertainment and recreation.

Purchase THIS, Sell THAT: If there’s a meaty purchase you are waiting to make, get done with one of your old things. Sell it before you make a new purchase. When you buy yourself a new laptop, you can sell off the old one to cover the cost.

Get your Lunchbox Packed: Many working professionals shy from carrying a lunchbox with home-made food. Result? They end up getting tempted, spending a couple of hundreds on their breakfast and lunch. You’d be surprised at deducing how much money can be saved by simply carrying home-cooked food. It is also the healthier option.

Treat Expenditure As Investment: The investment outlook helps you to maximise the benefit from your expenditure.

When you put a plug on all the unnecessary money leaks, start investing. You will be able to plan to do big things with the money you earn. Possibilities open out when you have an investment attitude to your money management.

Quit Wasting Money! Invest in the future!