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...Barbara Fredrickson, author of Positivity and a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says it's crucial for people to pay attention to their workday emotions. "Doing so," she says, "will help you discover which aspects of your work are most life-giving - and most life-draining...
Step 2: Diagram Your Day To lay the groundwork for change, job-crafting participants assemble diagrams detailing their workday activities. The first objective is to develop new insights about what you actually do at work. Then you can dream up fresh ways to integrate what the job-crafting exercise calls your "strengths, motives and passions" into your daily routine. You convert task lists into flexible building blocks. The end result is an "after" diagram that can serve as a map for specific changes. (See "Out of Work in America...
Step 3: Identify Job Loves And Hates By reorienting how you think about your job, you free yourself up for new ideas about how to restructure your workday time and energy. Take an IT worker who hates dealing with technologically incompetent callers. He might enjoy teaching more than customer service. By spending more time instructing colleagues - and treating help-line callers as curious students of tech - the disgruntled IT person can make the most of his 9-to-5 position. (See TIME's special "Planning for Retirement...
Members of the local branch of the Service Employees International Union, which represents security guards and janitors, joined other unions representing technical and clerical workers and dining hall staff, waving picket signs and chanting as University administrators streamed out of the Holyoke Center at the end of the workday...
...quickly erased. "There she was on set, watching the choreographer, bobbing her head to the music. Baby steps. She was getting her head back into it." He says Spears was noticeably "quieter" on set and worked on a tightly structured schedule. "This wasn't your typical 30-hour video workday," says Kahn. "They gave me eight hours a day for two days. She was getting her legs back...