It’s a tough time for libraries, and people in customer service. And while we don’t want to veer into any toxic positivity, it is good to spend a little time focused on building your happiness level. We are not going to solve people’s serious mental issues here. But bringing some happiness skills to your week can be helpful to everyone!

Mondays can be a little hard, even when things are going fine. Use this small injection of a happiness skill to your week. We are here to support you, and to help you to be a little happier in the library.

Brains are interesting things. The source of your happiness, the source of your unhappiness – a lot of it comes from your brain. And maybe working on some strategies to help turn your brain a little bit more toward the happiness side of life.

Check out this article for ideas: 18 Ways Your Thinking Is Destroying Your Happiness

• You distress about what’s ahead of you and forget about how far you’ve already come.
• You think you need others to support you because you are afraid to be on your own.You think you’ll be happy later, when you have reached that goal
• You see happiness as something exterior rather than as something interior
• You don’t take care of yourself
• You look for what is bad rather than what is good
• You think people won’t like you
• You are a (past-focused) realist
• You want to fix everything right NOW
• You’re afraid to let go of good enough in order to get to great

You can read the entire article, with all the tips and the information on the tips here.

CMLE can be part of your support network; we are here for you, and support you in your library work. Take a nice deep breath in, and whoosh it out; it’s going to be okay today.