Happy Pizza Day and Read in the Bathtub Day! (Please, try not to drop the pizza!)

It's time for another issue of random ideas and musings:
 

• A study titled "Vanishing Time in the Pursuit of Happiness" found that when people were asked to focus on things that are currently making them happy vs. things they need to do to become happier, the people who were asked to think about what would make them happier in the future reported feeling less happy and felt more time pressured than the people who focused on what was already making them happy. Gratitude for the win yet again!
• I like this idea from Houston-based Sterling Bank for an aspirational customer service goal: "Make every day our grand opening."
• In the book "Dare to Speak," author Suzanne Nossel talks about the difference between "calling out" someone vs. "calling in" someone. The concept of "calling in" someone applies to situations where, rather than embarrassing someone in front of everyone by publicly calling them out, call them in to a private conversation later on.
• A study found that the term employees most often used to describe their current workplace culture was, sadly, "stress." What's the number one word that pops into your mind when you think about your workplace culture? This is a great question to ask your employees!
• In the same study cited above, employees, on average, rated their workplace culture at a 65 out of a possible 100 points. What rating would you give your culture? Drop me a line, I'd love to hear your responses!
• If you are concerned about crossing the proverbial "humor line" at work by saying something inappropriate, rather than asking yourself how your humor will make you look, ask the question: "How will my humor make the people around me feel?"