Motivation Solicitation

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

  Career Development   Communications Management   Talent Management  

You’re reading the first few words of this article right now. Is there something here that you haven’t read before? Is it going to be interesting? Do you have the desire to find out? Are you motivated?

Motivation can be a difficult force to master. We all go through down periods, even some that are so significant that we can’t even consider making an effort to pull ourselves up again. Making a positive change can feel discouraging, but through incremental changes we all can get motivated and also more productive. While the idea of taking small steps may not be the answer you want to hear, for longer lasting results it’s the best path to take.

Getting There
When we set goals for ourselves, we lock our thoughts onto a destination as if we are already there. We also devote ourselves to getting to the location and judge ourselves based on our success--not so much as if we’ve made any progress, but rather how close we are to the objective. Researchers have found that while goals set us up with desires, they also set us up for disappointment in that as soon as we set one, a part of our brain says that we need to attain it immediately in order to feel any gratification.

Wanting and having are two different things, but this disparity is not so easily distinguished in our heads. It doesn’t matter if we are seeking something we see on …

Please log in or sign up below to read the rest of the article.