George Gilbert’s Motivational Humor

I have an old friend who complains all the time. He complains about his coworkers. He acts as if he is the only one who knows what he is doing, everyone else is incompetent. Then he will wonder why no one likes him, why he is the one that gets passed over for promotion, why he gets fired and goes from one job to another.

Maybe he does know more that the others but he doesn’t create a positive work environment by always pointing out others’ mistakes, he doesn’t create a team atmosphere by belittling them in front of other associates. Not only will they not want to work with you but they aren’t going to trust you. You are only setting yourself up for failure.

If you want to be a success at work help others by mentoring them, point out their successes not their failures and stop complaining about everything. Instead of coming to work with a frown turn it around and smile. No one wants to work with someone who complains about everything. People want to be around upbeat positive people. People that make them laugh, smile, and feel good about themselves.

If you have to point out others’ mistakes all the time to make yourself look good, then you are only hurting yourself by alienating your coworkers and when you make a mistake they will be the first to point it out. Rather than embarrassing you co-workers, help them and find humor, but not derogatory humor, in their mistake.

Every year most of us make resolutions that we never keep. In fact by the middle of January we have already forgotten them. Some we not only break, we don’t even start them. We have the best of intentions. We are going to exercise more, lose weight, eat right and then January 1st comes and we are too tired from New Years Eve. So we put it off another day, and then another day, and another day until we have given up. We stress out and the next thing you know we are back in the same old daily routine. This year let’s make a New Year’s resolution that we can keep. Let’s promise to laugh more. Find things to laugh about. Share humor with others. Go to more comedy movies, rent more comedies, and watch more sitcoms. Laughing is easier than exercising and yet it does help our cardiovascular system. And we don’t have to worry about laughing too much. The side effects are minimal, maybe a sore side particularly if you haven’t’ exercised lately.