Goal Setting
Long-Term Goal Setting- You will learn and show mastery of the meaning of “motivation” along with identifying some of the “hurdles” that can get in the way of achieving goals. You will be able to refer to your previous reflections, assessments, and assignments to make connections between, and conclusions about, their attributes that can help them identify their long-term goals. After reading the How to Become Highly Motivated for Your Job list below, you will then create a written life plan that focuses on your education and career goals using the “My Strategic Life Plan” template.
- Develop Conviction. Conviction is a firm belief of what you want to do. A firm belief gives you the courage to move towards your goals. Ask yourself what are your career goals? How does these career goals match with your company’s goals? Believe in the company’s goals if you are to become highly motivated for your job. Align these goals to your career goals and you begin to see more meaning in what you do.
- Have a positive Attitude. Attitude is a your way of thinking and behaving towards your life. In whatever tasks assigned to you, approach it with a positive attitude. A positive attitude means doing each job with pride, passion and belief. Give the job assigned to you; your best shot no matter how menial. When you approach work with a positive attitude you begin to become highly motivated for your job. It will contribute towards your career success goals.
- Show respect. Respect is a feeling of admiration for people’s good qualities or achievements. Far too often newbies at work do not give enough respect to their supervisors and colleagues. This is especially when they do not thoroughly understand each other’s role. To become highly motivated for your job, start with self-respect. Respecting yourself. If you want others to respect you, you must start respecting yourself. Understand your own roles in the organization. Each person’s roles contribute to the greater objective of the company. If you look down upon your own job, then you wouldn’t appreciate what you are doing. People will start to lose respect for you when you do not even respect yourself. Then learn to respect others. Respect others in your organization. Each and everyone in the organization deserve your respect. From the tea lady to the janitor, they each have their role to play and each contributes to the bigger objectives organization. Learn to see the good qualities in others that deserve your respect.
- Develop empathy. Empathy is the ability to imagine and share another person’s feelings and experience. In our work, we are bound to meet with colleagues who are uncooperative or clients who are unreasonable. In such cases, you would feel demotivated. To overcome this, learn to empathize with that person. Understand why such requests are being made.
- Show sincerity. Sincerity is saying and doing only things that one really means or believes. When we do the work that has been given to us, do it sincerely and joyfully. When someone has helped us in the course of our work or have made a certain task more manageable thank them sincerely. That way you begin to see that the job isn’t that insurmountable. You begin to become highly motivated for your job.