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ISSUE 559 - Nov. 5, 2014 |
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Are You Driven By Fun?
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Trying to change a behavior or create new habits at work or in your personal life? Here are seven ideas that might help...
- Set specific targets and an audacious goal. As detailed in the
book, "Switch" by Chip and Dan Heath, the CEO of the Institute for
Healthcare Improvement set a goal of 100,000 fewer deaths in exactly 16
months. As he said in his speech where he announced the goal, "Some is not a number; soon is not a
time. Here's the number: 100,000. Here's the time: June 14, 2006, 9:00
a.m." When that magic date and time rolled around, the institute announced 122,300 fewer
deaths.
- Create a constant reminder of the why. When there's a strong enough why, people tend to figure out the how.
- Change the situation/the context to make it easier to change. For example, people eat less food and find it easier to lose weight when they switch to smaller plate sizes.
- Numerous studies confirm that people have a willpower reservoir - if you do things throughout the day that take a lot of willpower, you slowly deplete your willpower account and it becomes harder to make the right choices later in the day. So schedule things that require a lot of will power (exercise, making sales calls) for early in the day.
- Celebrate small wins. As Teresa Amabile, the author of "The Progress Principle" points out, recognizing and celebrating small wins has a disproportionate impact beyond their actual size. Celebrating small wins creates momentum.
- Seek out success stories and figure out specifically what they're doing that made it work, and copy them!
- Make it fun! Recall the Integris Credit Union rallying cry: "Work Made Fun Gets Done!" Or Volkswagen's Fun Theory campaign which turned a subway staircase in Stockholm into a giant piano staircase to encourage people to take the stairs. They're back, incidentally, asking the question, "Are You Driven By Fun?" Check out how they've made grocery shopping more fun (this is how I've shopped for years!): Shopping in the Fast Lane.
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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Outrageous wagers are a fun way to encourage team competitions, motivate yourself to change a behavior, or to inspire teams to reach certain targets. For example, Jack Kalh, the former CEO of a company that manufactured duct tape, routinely challenged his sales team to reach a certain sales quota. If they reached it, he would swim across the company pond. If they didn't reach the target, the entire sales team had to swim across the company pond! Fun and effective. |
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Quote of the Week
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"When humor goes, there goes civilization!" Erma
Bombeck |
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It's a Wacky World |
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Inspiring Reading
Mike is quoted in the Business Insider article: 13 Things Successful People Do During the Last 10 Minutes of the Day
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