Today’s episode is all about getting motivated. If you feel like your stuck spinning your wheels in your IT career this episode will help you get moving!
- We are motivated for many different reasons
- Basic needs
- Food
- Water
- Shelter
- Peer pressure
- They want
- Guilt/Fear/Obligation
- I should
- Reward
- I can
- Internal desire – the most rare
- I want
- Basic needs
- Why does motivation matter?
- You will be most satisfied with a career founded on an internal desire
- Recognition, guild and money will only bring you so much satisfaction
- You will likely spend 30-40 years working, so you might as well enjoy it
- You will earn more if you enjoy do
- How to get motivated
- Motivation follows action
- Try something, even if you don’t want to
- Think about what you have liked in the past
- Make a plan
- Take steps toward your goal, anything to get you closer to it
- Focus on one primary goal for a specific period of time
- Create affirmation statements
- I am valuable
- Identify and remove self limiting beliefs
- I don’t deserve to make over X
- Work shouldn’t be fun
- Motivation follows action
Final Thoughts
- Feeling that your work matters and that you are making a difference is considered the number one reason for job satisfaction
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