More than a living

I feel as if I have already written this post—in a variety of different forms—at least a thousand times. So, one more time won’t hurt. And, honestly, it probably won’t be the last.
After all, it’s all about happiness, right?
And you are responsible for that. You are responsible for your own happiness.
Your employer is a jerk? […]

Okay. So here we are. Working from home.
And you, being the smart cookie that you are, have already done your darnedest to either comply with–or refute the necessity of–my “Top 5 physical requirements for working from home.”
So, physically, you’re good.
But what about mentally?
Shifting from the cubicle farm–or even the small office setting–to all by your […]

We here at More than a living tend to bemoan the state of the workplace in the United States. It’s what we know, so it’s where we focus our critique.
A while back, Toby highlighted the level of dissatisfaction in the workplace.
Well, I thought I’d pile on–expanding the realm of dissatisfaction, as it were–with a recent […]

The Chief Happiness Officer has offered to give away free PDFs of his book, Happy Hour is 9 to 5, to the first 50 100 people to comment on the post entitled, “Is your workplace unhappy? Get my book for free.” You’re also allowed to spread the joy, as it were, to anyone in the […]

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When Toby and I started scribbling the ideas that became More than a living, we were trying to find a way to describe the business ennui in which we both found ourselves seemingly irrevocably ensconced.
Part of that cathartic process was giving our goal a name. That concept was “more than a living.” That’s what we […]

I’ve no idea where my proclivity for quotes is coming from lately, but here’s another that struck me. And rather than lay it all out for you, I thought it might be better to provide the quote sans author.
Who do you think said this?
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. I’m convinced […]

Well, well, well. It’s been a few weeks since the beginning of the new year. All full of promise and intrigue.
We were really going to change some stuff this year, weren’t we? Really put our mark on things. Come out of the gates with both guns blazing and whatnot.
Boy, it was going to be good.
Yeah. […]

Now, let’s be honest. We’ve all told a little fib or two on our resume from time to time. Added a little hyperbole. (Like saying that you were Time’s Person of the Year in 2006.) Blown a few things out of proportion. Reported a metric that might have been little off-topic.
It happens. It’s a first […]

The more manifestos the better. That’s what we always say.
And while 26 points may be a little long–and rival the verbosity of our own postulates–I think this is well worth the read: The Happy At Work Manifesto
(Hat tip to Curt Rosengren)