How to Stay Motivated on the Job

Stress running up your spine and fear of failure getting to you? Try to follow these strategies in order to keep yourself motivated on the job.

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Money buys a lot but it can't get you self motivation, commitment and ambition. Low team morale, lack of initiative and energy, mistakes and high staff turnover won't be cured with little cash in the long term. So what do you do when you need to get the job done? Well, one of the simplest ways to get motivated is to create a self motivation action plan. Step one, clarify the goal, identify a project that you would like the motivation about. Let's use make some sales calls as an example. Your goals should be smart. In other words, specific, measurable, agreed, realistic and with a timescale. So the above goal made smart would be 'speak to ten perspective clients today'. Step twp, identify the obstacles. Be clear about what is standing in your way. There are two types of obstacles: practical and emotional. Examples of practical obstacles are lack of time, resources or information and examples of emotional obstacles are lack of confidence, fear of failure or rejection. List the obstacles standing in the way of you achieving your goal. Step three, handle each obstacle. If the obstacle is lack of time, ask yourself, how can I create time for this? What do I need to stop doing, start doing or delegate in order to create time? If the obstacle is a lack of confidence ask youself, what am I afraid of? What is the worst thing that could happen? Often the worst case scenario is not as bad as you are feared but it if is serious, how can you reduce the risk of it occurring? What resources do you have that will help you? As long as there are obstacles in the way, you will lack the motivation to complete your project. However, a clear self motivation action plan will help you complete projects without adrenaline, will power or unhealthy stress.