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The
way of approach to some task depends of a many factors;
skills, experience, energy level, time of a day, etc.
But one of the most important factors is – the Workplace
Motivation.
Workplace
Motivation
is something that pushes you toward your goal. If you
have motivation for some job, you are working more
persistent and longer than usual. But if you are not
motivated, you find even the simplest tasks to be
difficult, boring and you try to find as many excuses as
possible, just to delay or postpone the job.
So,
why is employee motivation that important? Imagine the balloon.
It can be of different size, shape, color, painted, etc.
But if there is air inside, then you do not have the
balloon, but the piece of rubber. So, the balloon needs
something to be pumped up, in order to show his real
shape. You can find many examples; car needs a fuel,
windmill needs a wind, bird needs a sunlight to sing,
painter need a motivation – ah, yes, the motivation,
in order to paint. Without motivation the canvas and
paints will not move themselves.
We
can use several factors that can help us to be motivated
toward the goal:
Preference
for some job can give us a wind in a back. If we prefer
to do some job, than we will do it more easily and much
faster. Therefore, we must try to head for profession,
environment and benefits that come as result, in a way
that correspond to our preference. This will give us the
workplace motivation..
Job
that we do not like; if we have to do something that
we dislike, which will happen occasionally, regardless
how much we try to avoid it, than we must try to find
some indirect sources of motivation. If we rely have to
do some digging in your garden, while you do not rely
like doing that, than try to find some indirect benefit.
That can be vegetables or flowers grown by your hand.
The fact that you grew them can be your satisfaction and
motivation. Also
you can impress somebody important with your work, which
can be also your reward. You can find many examples
where reward after job can be motivation.
Personal
Development can be your motivation. If you do not
like doing something too much, still you can learn and
progress while you working on it. By developing some
skill you can turn something from your weakness to your
strength. For example, you might dislike web design and
programming, but you want your web site, since you are
passionate on some subject and you want to write about
it. Design can be technical part that you do not like,
while web publishing is something that interest you. If
you start working on design, you might expand this skill
and knowledge, which makes you more proficient in web
publishing business.
Bypass
steps that you are your motivation blockers. Again, let say that you
rely like writing and you want to build your web site.
But if you really, really hate technical part of
building web page, then simply hire somebody to do that
job for you. It will cost you some money, but you can
save a lot of time and effort. That way you will have
more strength and motivation to deal with content of the
web that may be your motivation enabeler, instead coping
with motivation blockers.
Set
Milestones on your road for your goal. For example,
the studying can be complex and long, with many
difficult exams. But, as you cannot build house in one
day, also you cannot finish your study instantly.
Focusing on one exam can bring you the pass. Then focus
on a next exam, and so on.
Every exam is the milestone on you road to the degree.
Balancing
tasks in our life can give you the motivation. If
you have a really difficult job during the day, you can
source motivation from a pleasant evening that you plan
to spend after your job. So, your evening party can be
counter balance for a rough day.
Planning
of activities can help you to do some activity
easier way. If you have a long trip ahead of you, and
you are really not in a mood for driving nor you can
find any motivation at the destination point, try to
split your boring driving. You can stop for lunch at the
nice restaurant on your way. Later you can plan to stop
at the nice countryside, on your way, and enjoy the
view. This way you plan to split your long and boring
journey and fill it with more interesting activities.
It will give you motivation
that you need for the trip.
Timing
planned according to your mood pattern can help you
to do something more easily. If you plan to start
jogging, try to decide what time of a day suits you for
your exercise. If you prefer to do jogging at the
afternoon, instead early in the morning, than choose
your schedule accordingly.
Basically,
you can find motivation everywhere. Even if you are not
able to find anything significant to motivate you, then
find at least something small, but something that you
like. Experiment a lot. Doing something differently can
help you to do things more easily and efficiently. Use
your experience. Use your motivation enablers and try
to avoid your blockers. Try to find company if that will
help you. Listen music while working something. If you
really feel that you can not do something now – then
don't. Try to do it later.
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