Employers for years have told us they look for enthusiasm in people they hire… workers gravitate to positive people who inspire them … and research tells us how boredom is a serious problem that limits all we do or say. Brain experts tell us to run from terminal boredom and that rarely means running from what we do daily. How so?
Increasingly research shows how boring’s opposite trait, “interest” can be 
cultivated for any task. It’s a brain based thing, and so is shaped by how you choose to respond.
But your job or life is boring you say? Do you feel forced do boring things to reach your goal? Here are a few tips to turn the pattern of boring that limits your brain, into a patterns of enthusiasm, interest and inspiration to others around you. Since interest and enthusiasm are as contagious as boring is destructive why not …
1. Start your day with a quote that inspires you…. Helen Keller said, for instance that Life must become a daring adventure or it is nothing at all…. What’s your best quote? Why not create one of your own to inspire you to find interest in the things you feel called to do today.
2. Laugh – because laughter releases enzymes in your brain that foster interest and new learning. Have you noticed that boredom rarely follows when people cultivate new approaches to old problems – and when they go after the adventure of any task.
3. Listen or move to music while you work, and allow the rhythms to reboot your brain for the adventure you can bring to even the most ordinary work. Did you know that music literally moves your brain waves and changes your moods?
4. Play games, exercise, go to lunch with a friend, but do one cool thing a day for you and for your well-being.
5. Practice inspiring others who tend to get bored or who limit your circle with n
egativity.
6. Follow a popular, interested person around for one day, and imitate some of the things that person says and does at work. Each time you model enthusiasm or interest in what you do … your brain will build new neuron pathways for that pattern.
7. Be careful to review new research on the negative effects of venting, before you throw your reasons for boredom out into a circle. We miss the opportunity to make a shift in the brain’s patterns when we vent rather than take steps to alter our course for enthusiasm.
Eventually the brain's hippocampus will convert your new pattern for enthusiasm … and root interest into your brain’s basal ganglia ... through dendrite brain cells connectors. You've got it -- interest will replace boredom and negative communication to others that results. So you will find yourself becoming the interesting and positive person you’d like others to see in you.
Before research proved otherwise … we settled for the fact that some people were victims to boring practices and fate was not on their side. The opposite is true … we now know that we can choice daily whether we smile or sneer at the tasks we do – and that even the most ordinary tasks take on interest and enthusiasm to people who pattern their brains for adventure and inspiration. Turns out it’s pretty much completely up to you, but sadly whenever you make choices for terminal boredom, you’ll likely impact others who could have made it with one word of encouragement or interest.
Who would you rather work with or hire? Who would you rather become? How does your interest and enthusiasm for ordinary or difficult tasks stack against that person?
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