Occupational Wellness is the ability to achieve a balance between work and leisure time, addressing workplace stress and building relationships with co-workers. It focuses on our search for a calling and involves exploring various career options and finding where you fit.
Because what we do for a living encompasses so much of our time, it's important for our overall well-being to do what we love and love what we do. When people are doing what they were meant to do, they deepen their sense of meaning and purpose.
The Path to Occupational Wellness
The occupational dimension of wellness recognizes personal satisfaction and enrichment in one's life through work. At the center of occupational wellness is the premise that occupational development is related to one's attitude about one's work. Traveling a path toward your occupational wellness, you'll contribute your unique gifts, skills and talents to work that are both personally meaningful and rewarding. You'll convey your values through your involvement in activities that are gratifying for you. The choice of profession, job satisfaction, career ambitions, and personal performance are all important components of your path's terrain.
Are you engaged in the process of Occupational Wellness?
Resource- wellness.ucr.edu/occupational_wellness.html
Additional Resources
Books-
Teach With Your Strengths- by Rosanne Liesveld and Jo Ann Miller with Jennifer Robison
Our Iceberg is Melting- by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
Who Moved my Cheese- by Spencer Johnson, M. D
Nut out of Maze- by Spencer Johnson, M. D.
Websites-
Tune up Your Body LanguageIt’s not what you say - it’s how you STAND when you say it! Studies show that more than half of what we communicate… read more at -https://www.tesh.com/articles/tune-up-your-body-language/
What are the Most Important Teaching Tools?A worldwide, 40-year study of over 5-thousand children found that the right teaching methods make a big difference in how much… https://www.tesh.com/articles/what-are-the-most-important-teaching-tools/
“If you are happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And I if you have that, along with physical health, you will have more success than you could possibly have imagined.” – Johnny Carson
Because what we do for a living encompasses so much of our time, it's important for our overall well-being to do what we love and love what we do. When people are doing what they were meant to do, they deepen their sense of meaning and purpose.
The Path to Occupational Wellness
The occupational dimension of wellness recognizes personal satisfaction and enrichment in one's life through work. At the center of occupational wellness is the premise that occupational development is related to one's attitude about one's work. Traveling a path toward your occupational wellness, you'll contribute your unique gifts, skills and talents to work that are both personally meaningful and rewarding. You'll convey your values through your involvement in activities that are gratifying for you. The choice of profession, job satisfaction, career ambitions, and personal performance are all important components of your path's terrain.
Are you engaged in the process of Occupational Wellness?
- Do I enjoy going to work most days?
- Do I have a manageable workload at work?
- Do I feel that I can talk to my boss and co-workers with problems arise?
Resource- wellness.ucr.edu/occupational_wellness.html
Additional Resources
Books-
Teach With Your Strengths- by Rosanne Liesveld and Jo Ann Miller with Jennifer Robison
Our Iceberg is Melting- by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
Who Moved my Cheese- by Spencer Johnson, M. D
Nut out of Maze- by Spencer Johnson, M. D.
Websites-
Tune up Your Body LanguageIt’s not what you say - it’s how you STAND when you say it! Studies show that more than half of what we communicate… read more at -https://www.tesh.com/articles/tune-up-your-body-language/
What are the Most Important Teaching Tools?A worldwide, 40-year study of over 5-thousand children found that the right teaching methods make a big difference in how much… https://www.tesh.com/articles/what-are-the-most-important-teaching-tools/
“If you are happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And I if you have that, along with physical health, you will have more success than you could possibly have imagined.” – Johnny Carson
- January Challenge- Read about Occupational Wellness, and participate in the Occupational Wellness Challenge by completing at least 3 of the activities to improve your occupational wellness