Staying Happy and Productive in a Fast-Paced Environment

When you invest as much of your time into work as we have invested here at Lifefitter, it’s important to make the most out of your free time and your hobbies. Take me for instance. While I “draw pictures all day” here at work, I am also a trained percussionist, a late-blooming 3.0 tennis player, and a die-hard college football fanatic. These things are great ways for me personally to blow off steam and have a little fun, but what are some things that I can do to decrease the amount of “funk” that follows me home from the office in the first place?

Here at Lifefitter, we believe that it is important for individuals to de-stress, and a company as a whole needs to make time for engaging, fun, activities. We plan outings with our whole team. We go out to lunch together as a group. We even tailgate together every home football game. (Go Gamecocks!)

The main benefit of these company activities is an increased understanding of the things that drive your co-workers. It’s one thing to sit beside someone in an office all day. It’s something completely different to learn about their family, their interests, or just generally relate to them on a new level. Of course, once you’ve formed that deeper connection with Steve down in Accounting, it’s always a blast to pepper him in bright green paintballs and taunt his [lack of] crazy-good paintball skills.

If you and the people you spend most of your day with can’t laugh together, how can you ever expect to accomplish goals together? Your job can be one of the most stressful things in your life. If you could take 50% of the stress out wouldn’t you want to? Well, the easiest way to start is by organizing any sort of activity outside of work. It doesn’t have to be crazy or anything. Just go have a group lunch, or spend a Sunday afternoon watching the game with your new buddies from IT.

Developing a level of comfort with your co-workers inherently leads to a calmer, happier you, and I think that’s something we can all get behind, right?

Posted by: Josh