Are you feeling un-motivated at work, not feeling the excitement and rush of waking up every morning and not looking forward to your day at work? I have encountered many people who have expressed their lack of desire of going to work or when they are at work, they can't wait for the day to pass. Some feel that they are in a job that isn't rewarding or maybe just plain boring. What are we to do? I have been successful at staying ultra motivated and passionate at what I do on a consistent basis and I have been asked by my colleagues curious as to how I always seem to have such an upbeat and positive attitude on a consistent basis. Allow me to share my thoughts about getting and staying motivated at work... it worked for me, and I hope it will keep you motivated and re-energize you and your passion.
My feeling is this, we go into cycles when it comes to our emotions. When things are new, we get excited, we feel energetic and can't wait for the next day to come. I used to have this feeling about school as do most people, looking forward to the first day of school and the excitement of seeing everyone that we have not seen since summer break started, but as time passes and we get into our day to day activities, the faces we used to miss get all too familiar, things start to get boring and repetitive. We then start to look forward to having summer break come sooner rather than later and then we start the whole cycle again. We carry this cycle into our professional lives, but things get even more extreme because we don't have the 3 month vacations that school used to provide us.
The daily grind does not excite us as it used to and we are on a constant search for something new or something that will keep us happy. The worse case scenarios I have seen is when someone feels as if they are stuck at what they do, because they are limited to doing something different, or maybe they are just content and don't really like change but constantly complain about their job. The cycles we go through is as follows: [Read more...]
