Motivation

[Slinky]

I find that quite regularly I lack motivation to get something done, whether it be in the office or at home.. So I often ponder what other folk use to motivate themselves..

Do you work on a reward mentality, as in, if I get this done I'll get X out of it at the end, or do you work purely on a self motivated tactic of "well, it needs to be done, so I'll do it"...

I guess to extend to question further, do you motivate yourself to do your job by imagining reward? or is your motivation derived from the satisfaction of a job well done?

As I've already said, I struggle with finding reasons to motivate myself to get things done, so any "inspirational" answers are appreciated...

cheers,

slinky

[Wattsie]

In Saturday work, its Relentless - Motivation in a can...

In school it works more off a can/can't be arsed to basis....


Sorry for being no help, but this is as shallow as my motivation is

[fido]

http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

[Mutt]

One small step at a time, task lists (either written or mental) and making sure I achieve small things whilst on the way to completing bigger things. I find setting targets and keeping a list of substantial things I have completed helps.

As does blocking PH at work...

[Digger.]

Maybe not as bad as me. I can hardly recall EVER being enthused, motivated by anything in life, let alone feeling like I have any direction in life. Guess my problems run deep, but never really worked it all out. Really need to be more positive and GET THINGS DONE! That would help .

[ironictwist]

A mixture, but then if you throw in a perfectionist streak then it can be tiresome as you'll always push that little bit more. Imagining reward works & the hope that the effort & work put in now will benefit me in the long term when it comes to my role/salary in the small firm I work at.

If you want to earn & do well you've gotta put in the work, if you do bugger all, you'll get bugger all has been my mentality ever since I left education.

[HundredthIdiot]

[trooperiziz]

ironictwist said:

If you want to earn & do well you've gotta put in the work, if you do bugger all, you'll get bugger all has been my mentality ever since I left education.

That's because you haven't put enough effort into doing bugger all, you can't just do bugger all by doing bugger all, you have to work at it to get really good at doing nothing.

[ironictwist]

trooperiziz said:

ironictwist said:

If you want to earn & do well you've gotta put in the work, if you do bugger all, you'll get bugger all has been my mentality ever since I left education.

That's because you haven't put enough effort into doing bugger all, you can't just do bugger all by doing bugger all, you have to work at it to get really good at doing nothing.

True, there is an art to doing bugger all, because if there wasn't, everyone would be doing bugger all, so there's gotta be something to it!

[fastcaterham]

Personally I'm an imagine rewards person although I find watching certain videos very helpful. Weird but it works for me. An example being if I need some motivation to go out on my bike as part of a keeeping fit regime I'll watch one of the various tribute videos to lance armstong or similar on you tube and I find it puts me in the mood or before a day karting I will watch some of the various motorsport tribute videos or just videos I find that put me in a positive mood. In uni I find just listning to certain music which I've always got on my mp3 player works. Strange maybe but you'll find a lot of high performers be it in sports or whatever use similar techniques. Works for me and I'd say everybody should give it a go!
If you want an example next time the f1 is on look at the number of drivers who are listing to i pods on the grid or shortly before the race!