Incentivising yourself to progress your career

[Cneci]

How do you incentivise yourself to go above the bare minimum required in order to progress?

I've tried various things to motivate myself. An example is placing a picture of a BMW M135i on the "home office" wall as a target to buy in a year or so, but this has no effect on my work effort.

Working from home makes me think the absence of a competitive environment is the root cause, so perhaps a change of job is in order?

[Cneci]

Thank you for the reply

I haven't achieved/received more responsibility or renumeration, so I think I may have to look elsewhere!

[Cneci]

devnull said:

Interesting question. It's easy to push yourself when you're enjoying the job in hand anyway, as you'll usually start thinking of ways to tangibly improve or demonstrate your additional skills. I used to be able to do this quite easily my job and got payrises and an award from it.

Again, thanks to everyone for the replies, much appreciated.

My improvements and effort in my role fall into a "black hole", so to speak. There isn't a direct feedback loop telling me if my work has helped a client. All I receive is "thanks", and nothing more than that really. It doesn't provide me with any career capital to put on the CV, or leverage to gain a better salary etc.