If you are
working full time, you would be spending a minimum of about forty hours per
week at your workplace. With so much of your time devoted at one place, there
will be annoyances typical of the place. Even the best of workplaces are no
exception; the very assertion that they are the best, implying perfect,
manifests that there are annoyances prevalent there.
You do not have
to make an effort to identify what is irritating around you. You simply have to
think of it and lo and behold, you will notice one. It could be somebody
talking loudly over the phone, admonishing a subordinate for whatever reason or
trying to unnecessarily engage you or someone in a conversation. The
periodicity of annoyances striking you could be the same as any other activity
that puts you off. Not getting recognition for a job well done, unwarranted
criticism or even unjustified chinwag can be highly irritating too.
Everybody will
regard all annoyances as distractions that contribute to interruptions and
interferences at work. Be it inability to focus on work or reluctance to take
on an additional assignment, the cause is attributed to affliction of some form
of an annoyance at workplace. Likewise, if you do not feel self-assured or at
ease at your workplace, the reason possibly in your logic is the unrestrained
and sardonic criticism of you by your boss. These distractions and exasperations
and blockings are figments of your sensitivity to which some degree of your
non-performance is ascribed to.
The truth,
however, is that all the workplace annoyances are not destructive; they enable
ground-breaking endeavours. The very fact that your mind is incited by them in
whatever manner, they serve as stimuli. And if they were not present, where
would that stimuli come from? The following vexations at your workplace can
enhance your output and novelty, both qualitatively and quantitatively:
· Acerbity & censures: If
you are shouted at, you generally tend to be more industrious. Your effort is
directed at complying with directions so that there is no second instance of
admonishment or reproach. Research has shown that entertaining scorn requires a
highly cognitive endeavour and intricate contemplation. You are forced to delve
into the details of tongue-in-cheek comments and understand diverse
connotations behind them, including reading in between the lines. This is a
mental stimulus and leads to greater creativity and boosts skills to handle
glitches and conundrums.
· Cluttered working area: Some people believe that a cluttered desk
indicates a cluttered mind. But then what does an open space indicate? Studies
conducted have proved that people with a messy desk are more prone to
creativity and risk taking, while people at cleaner desks tended to follow
strict rules and are less likely to try new things or take risks. Disorderly
environments seem to inspire breaking free of tradition, which can produce
fresh insights. Therefore, you need not
get unduly worried if your workspace is messy; in fact, messiness and
cleanliness both are a spectrum that have a corresponding creativity setting.
· Boisterous commotions: Your creative faculties need a specific milieu
noise calibre. If your thinking process is compelled to filter surplus commotion
in the surroundings, the abstract component of it will get activated.
Consequently, newer ideas will flow in even though your brain would be working
in accelerated conditions. If there are no sounds surrounding you, your brain
will not be put to its optimum capability; on the contrary, if you are able to
subsist in a noisy environment, you will be pitched at an entirely new plane to
face challenges.
· Workplace blather: If there
happens to be workplace chinwag, research has shown that you stress gets
relieved and output enhanced. However, the point to note is that inappropriate
gossip need not be paid attention to. The reason is that you are inspired to
work hard to negate all those blather doing rounds. Hence, gossip should not
affect you in any manner.
· Absence of recognition: If you
genuinely seek to generate or produce something, your originality, ingenuity
and inventiveness will automatically be of a high degree. In the light of the
foregoing, your imaginative capability is by itself an incentive. And it gets
further boosted when you do not look for any return or advantage. Resultantly,
you are at ease with yourself and perform in an independent, unbiased and
efficient manner.
Remember
that it is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus
your energies on answers, not excuses.
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