Work Motivation, Energy & Drive: 2 Mindset Shifts & 11 Resources

Part 1 of 2

Work motivation is a hot topic. Everybody's interested in it, because so many of us do not have it.

That's why this is one of the 22 Wake Up Eager Secrets in our online quiz:

Waking Up Eager is easier when you have fulfilling work.

How true is that statement for you? If it is not as true for you as you'd like - are you willing to focus here to improve it?

Some of us just land in the the 'right' work - my husband falls in that category. He has always known what his work would be, he does it now and is one of the happiest and successful people I know.

Some of us - like me and for many different reasons have a journey to take to get to the work that is a good fit for our own preferences and talents.

Finding work motivation and inspiration is possible, but only if you cover these two areas first:

1. First, you must re-work your mindset around work.

   If you believe that all work is drudgery, hard and difficult --- it is going to be impossible for you to find satisfying, fulfilling, 'good-on-me' work.

   If you don't believe that finding motivation and inspiration in your work is possible, you'll never find it.



2. Secondly, you must become very knowledgeable about the subject of YOU.

   You must be able to name, claim and own your strengths, your values, your interests, your talents and your blind spots.

This article, and in fact this entire website, is designed to help you re-work your belief around your work life and to deepen your appreciation of the specialness you bring to this world.

Use these eleven resources to recalibrate your expectations about your work, to re-energize your appreciation of yourself and to get more work motivation.

Shift your mindset to:

1. PERFECT WORK MANTRA:

   I found this statement about perfect and energizing work, over 10 years ago. For a long time, I read it every day.

   I used it to help me re-work my beliefs about work. It became a mantra for me.

   When you're tuned to your intrinsic motivations and inspirations and you are finding motivation every day, THIS is what it looks like and feels like:

A Wake Up Eager Career Life

• I feel like a duck in a pond.
• My work is a natural expression of my talents and personality.
• My job fits me so well, often work is play.
• I am proud of what I do and enjoy telling other people about it.
• I am highly respected at work because I am so good at what I do.
• I do not have to pretend to be someone else at work.
• My own best and natural forms of creative expression are what I am paid to do.
• The environment I work in brings out my best efforts./LI>

• I enthusiastically look forward to going to work most of the time.
• My job rewards my most important values and allows me to fulfill my goals in terms of personal growth, achievement, income and stability.
• The results of my efforts makes a contribution that personally matters to me.
• I do not spend my days working for something that I do not really care about.
• I like the people I work with.
• I am on a winning team that is having a great time getting the job done.
• A day on the job leave me feeling energized, not burned out.
  From: Pathfinders, by Nicholas Lore.

Go to part 2 now to get the next ten (plus 1 inspiring video) resources for more work motivation.

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