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Learning motivates work, it helps you to accept responsibility for your behaviour, for your actions and positive attitude. In reality motivation comes from a person’s belief, which helps him/her to achieve his/her goal. Purpose,Desire,Direction and Dedication are the qualities necessary to experience real motivation.

People motivate themselves by understanding their needs and wants. It could be Tangible Gifts,Rewards or Intangible growth,Appreciation,Recognition and a lot more, as it varies from person to person. How does motivation work in your case? If you Understand how motivation works for you, then your Internal Motivation will drive you to achieve your goals and lead you toward success.

People motivate themselves by inculcating in themselves, the belief responsible for actions and behaviour and creating a vision that helps them to outweigh the challenges that might come before them and accept their responsibilities in life. Lack of motivation brings life to a standstill,failure or fear of failure demotivates people and their pattern of their everyday life.On the contrary a motivated person has a spark in his eyes, always looks for new challenges and ways he can improve himself.

It could be said that real motivation starts from within a person based on how there needs are being consistently met. Without going into a long drawn out explanation of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs I will state some of the conclusions. The most basic of needs stated by Abraham Maslow was the need to survive. Until that need is consistently met the other needs for all practical purposes cease to exist. Once that need is met then the individual is now ready to fulfill the other needs that may exist for themselves. These can be readily determined by there own specific paradigm of life. A person’s paradigm is just the LENSES they tend to consistently see life through. A set of beliefs that color there experience and interpretation of all that surrounds them. There is no real change until a person’s paradigm changes. But the motivation to make a paradigm change leads us to the next section.

SELF MOTIVATION AND YOU

If you are a person who is disciplined, goal-oriented, organized and instant, it means that you have the skills to motivate yourself. It means that you have a sense of achievement and that’s how motivation actually works. For you to become the person that you are today.

Motivation is temporary and short lived and hence it needs to be strengthened constantly to succeed. Negative thoughts and anxiety come into play and we can become demotivated and dubious about our future. However,just by accepting the challenges to move forward, one can get motivated as he will have the will and commitment to be successful,Accepting the failures,learning it as a lesson in life,helps us to move on to the next stage of success.

CONCLUSION

Self motivated person knows the trick to get motivated after a disappointment and accepts the next obstacle that comes along. A motivated individual understands his thoughts and emotions,learns how to nurture them into a positive outcome,that keeps them focused on the next goal instead of being Complacent.

Self motivation is a challenge for anyone who is self employed. But it’s a particularly tricky challenge for those in the creative industries. Why would that be? Well creative types, quite sensibly and obviously, often become self employed in order to be able to be creative and flexible in their work. Not for them the drudgery of a nine to five office job with a soulless boss!

But when you’re self employed, YOU become the boss. And the employee. And this dynamic sets up a whole set of inner relationships and rebellions that need to be handled with care. Particularly when it comes to managing your motivation so that you can achieve successful outcomes for both your business and for yourself.

Assuming that at least part of the reason you’re in business is because you want to make money, your inner boss will be need to be in a position to make strategic decisions, undertake planning activities and dictate hours of work.

And assuming that you’re creatively self employed because you want flexibility and creativity in your working life and don’t want to be dictated to, your inner employee will need a certain degree of freedom and leeway on the job.

So how is your relationship between your inner boss and your inner employee?

Recently I asked this question of a creative coaching client who was struggling to run her home-based creative business. She surprised herself with her reply! She’d expected to respond that her inner boss was terrorizing her inner employee and that what she needed was more freedom to work flexibly so that she could enjoy her working time more. What she discovered as she pondered the question, though, was that matters were in fact reversed… her inner employee was rebelling against her inner boss to such an extent that she despaired of ever producing any meaningful output.

To motivate yourself happily and successfully, it’s clearly important to nurture a supportive relationship between these two parts of yourself. And that means engaging them in regular dialogue with each other. Your inner boss needs to understand what kind of flexibility works best for your inner employee. And your inner employee needs to understand what the boss reasonably requires in order to produce results that both will find satisfactory and rewarding.

Both your inner boss and inner employee will sometimes need to understand the principle of the delayed reward. Your inner boss, for example, is more likely to allow your inner employee to take that luxuriously creative hour for writing in the middle of the afternoon, if there’s an understanding that the employee will work, and work far better, in the early evening as a result. And likewise, your inner employee is more likely to let your inner boss lay down some plans for future ambitious projects if there’s an understanding between the two of them that the plan includes an allowance for creative travels and time out on completion.

So as you think about your conflicting motivations when it comes to work, creativity, self employment, money and flexibility, take a moment to be aware of the different parts of yourself that have a stake in the process. If you can involve each part in a way that allows it to have a say and to negotiate with the other parts, you’re likely to achieve a much higher overall level of motivation in your work. And, of course, the corresponding success that comes along with it.

Human aspirations for self-motivation and personal development

Every human being irrespective of sex, age, occupation, race, and language feel the necessity to do something for their personal development. They discuss with their friends, relatives, and colleagues about “ways to motivate yourself “techniques. A large number of them buy “self help improvement and motivational “books.  The reason is everyone is searching for ways and means to uplift oneself from one level of existence to another next level of better existence.

Motivational and inspirational books – Will they help us?

You might tend to ask,  Will all these “motivational and inspirational “ books available out in the market will help me to convert my life into a positive life? One answer is “yes” and another answer is “no”.  Motivating yourself does not mean simply buying a book, reading it and putting it aside.  Many people who buy self-help improvement books simply read them fastly and put them aside and than they will complain, it was a waste of money.  It is quite natural that the book they have bought has not helped them. Mere possession of any number of books will never help anybody to accomplish anything.  It is the assimilation of ideas and putting them into practice with your whole heart and mind, which will really help them to accomplish whatever they wanted to accomplish.  Books are nothing but storehouse of knowledge, and unless you study books with concentration, understand what the author is teaching, and put it into practice assiduously you cannot dream about enjoying any benefits because of possessing the book. If merely possessing a book will make you successful than librarians will be the most successful persons on this earth.  Once you buy a book allot  a particular time of the day for the study of the book, if you had studied the book for fifteen minutes than please over what you have studied for another fifteen minutes.   Than make it a point that you are conscientiously putting into practice what you have learnt.  No delays in putting into practice what you have learnt.  If you think I will start practicing from tomorrow, I assure you will be never practicing.  It is instant action, which you need. Preparing a goal setting worksheet will be a great help in this matter.  Continuous practice will help you to sustain positive thoughts, which will help you to become a winner.

Conclusion

Out in the market a large number of self-help books are available.  You can easily buy them are you can borrow them from a library, but they will not be of any benefit if you are not bothered to put into practice what you studied in the book.  So once again I am telling you, please put into practice what you have learnt from the book into your day-to-day living and very soon, you will realize that you are blossoming into a new person, a more successful person.

Employers are not always selecting the best candidates in term of academic results or the most experience in the field to fill up their job vacancies. What actually make those success candidates in an interview session stand out of crowd and be successfully secured the job? You must be surprised to the answer from most employers: Self-motivation on how a person is committed to the job that made them being offered to the job position.

You might know this is the key differentiator that can make you stand out of crowd. The question is how are you going to demonstrate to the employers that you are motivated and be able to commit to the job if you are offered with the job?

During the interview session, you can tell the employer that you are motivated with the job offer, but the employer may not be able to see through your action if you don’t demonstrate it. How to demonstrate you are self-motivated? You may ask. Fortunately, it isn’t all that difficult as you may think to prove that you are a good self-motivation person. In fact, it can be surprisingly easy to do through some simple actions that may, on the surface, seem like nothing special. If you demonstrate these actions, you are showing that you are self-motivated that will automatically make you stand out from crowd and being noticed by employers.

What actions are we talking about? Here are some examples:

1. Conducting Informal Interviews with Employers

Let the employers see your self-motivation by contacting the prospective employers to learn more about the career opportunities in their company. The companies may not have any vacant position for new hiring at the moment, but you can show your initiative by contacting the employers and have an informal discussion or a short interview with the employers to see any possibility to start your career there in the future. You could also hand in your resume to the employers to review and remind the employers to call you for a formal interview when there are vacant positions that meet your career interest.

2. Tailor Your Resumes and Cover Letters To Each Company’s Need

Do you know that some differences on your resumes or cover letters may make you stand out from crowd? Most of job applicants are using the standard format of resumes and cover letters. Imagine that when the employer screen through the stack of application letters and reviews the resume of each applicant, if they see one that is tailored to the company’s need, they definitely will pay an attention on it and resulting in positive impression. You are showing the employer that you are spending time and effort to write your resume and application letter to their specific needs. With that, you have offered tangible evidence of your self-motivation.

3. Doing Something Out of the Ordinary

During your internship or summer job or any volunteering work that you have done for a company for free or specific projects during your college time, try to do something that is out of the ordinary. For example you may offer yourself to develop a website for a local nonprofit organization or volunteer yourself for doing the evaluation tests to help in finding solution for a problem, or you can even develop a project to meet the company specific needs. In these cases, you are showing a self-motivation behavior and these companies may approach you for a job after your graduation.

Summary

Self-motivation is very important to make you stand out from crowd and being noticed by employers. Don’t just tell employers that you are a self-motivated person, instead, show to them with your actions.