If I had two dollars, I would buy bread and a flower – the soul needs food just like the body!

This article starts off with a quote from Muhammad. Basically, what he means is that it takes more than just food to get going – and many people forget to keep this in mind!

The average office is far from ideal – everyday, millions of workers are annoyed by sub-ideal workplace conditions. For example, the Alt key is broken, the processors are stored far away from the eeprom’s that accompany them, literature is hard to find and so on! This list could be continued ad infinituum…

And indeed, those nuissances look ‘tiny’ and not worth fixing because you have more important things to do – and in the end, you still go home pissed every day. WooHoo! Frustrations tend to amplify one another – a really tiny thing can be the famous straw that lays the camel flat for good!

One of the most efficient people I ever worked with was a graphist – and you should have seen her office. While it looked chaotic sometimes, every mm was ‘engineered’ by her for maximum usability.

So, try to elimnate ‘environmental nuissances’ whenever you can. Your employees(and you yourself, too) will be much happier than before – and happyness usually leads to motivation!

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