March 1, 2010

Relight Your Fire
by Lowell Jacobsen

Lately, you've noticed your motivation, and your performance, slack at work. Your engine, which once revved, now only idles. Maybe not everyone has noticed yet. But you have.

Try these tips for a motivational tune-up:

·   Sublimate success. Goals are great; they're even necessary. Just make sure they feature internal as well as external elements. Truly successful people understand that goals are the outward manifestation of internal growth and happiness.

·   Aim higher. Attaining a difficult goal can knock the wind out of your sails for a spell. Suddenly, what once seemed impossible sits in your hands, common and demystified. Set up a bigger challenge for yourself. Don't stop raising the bar until you feel your juices flowing again.

·   Aim wider. Expand the breadth of your goals. Look outside your department, your company, and your industry for more expansive standards to rate your performance.

·   Congratulate yourself. Celebrate your wins before moving on to other contests. Take time to savor victory, or you may lose your taste for it.

·   Revisit your life goals. Career goals need to travel in the same vehicle as larger life goals, such as family and personal pursuits. If they are separated, you'll soon find yourself becoming hostile to one or the other. Plan a route that will satisfy all your needs.

·   Give to others. Having everything you want may blunt your ambition. But it should whet your appetite for altruism. Help out others in your department. Take on a younger employee as a protégé to help them learn the ropes. Volunteer your skills.

·   Update your motivations. Sometimes we don't burn out, we simply graduate. Some goals and motivations that may have seemed as large as the moon when we were younger wane as we grow older and wiser. Take a long hard look at what used to spur you on, and consider whether you've outdistanced it.

·    Look into depression. Sometimes, a loss of motivation at work points to an emotional problem that dared not show up until you'd achieved success. If this is the case, consider visiting a therapist.

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further. When life seems to be drained of all purpose. What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again; to turn over a new page.  ~ Eileen Caddy~

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