Happy Scooter Day everyone! I have a confession - 'scooter' is one of my favorite words. It's just so darn cute-sounding! It's also an awesome name for a dog. Or turtle. But I digress.

An effective way to convert intentions into habits is to create theme days for each day of the week and commit just 5 minutes a day to one small habit that will help you, your team, and even your entire workplace be happier and more successful. You can do each of these on your own, encourage your entire team to commit to them for greater impact and for peer support, or create your own happiness micro-boosters.   

Monday Moments of Gratitude: Take 5 minutes to write down 3 things (and yes, writing them down has a greater impact) you are grateful for. Post the list where you can see it and/or have everyone on your team share their list.

Touch Point Tuesdays: Take 5 to 10 minutes to phone a customer or colleague you don't see on a regular basis or haven't connected with in a while just to see how they are doing. 

Wacky Wednesdays: Take 5 minutes to flex your humor muscles by either writing your own joke and/or collecting one joke and jotting it down in a joke book (which is like a notebook only way more fun). 

Thankful Thursdays: Take 5 minutes to write a handwritten thank you card to someone.

Friday Fantastic Flashbacks: Take 5 minutes to write down and share with your team the top-3 best things that happened at work during the week. 

The beauty of micro-boosters is that, according to scooter-loads of research, not only do they work, your chances of turning them into habits are far greater because they're easier to commit to.

And consider this: If you stick to these for a year, by the end of the year you will have amassed 156 moments of gratitude, connected with 52 people, collected 52 jokes, sent 52 thank you cards and archived 156 wins worth celebrating! That sounds like a GREAT year to me!