When I was performing direct sale activity, there was one leader always yelling “What is your Why?” over and over. It was funny how much he could impact everyone’s perception with such 4 words.
What is your Why?
Over and over.
And when I was getting home from the training, I was keeping saying that phrase to myself, finding that in many occasions, I was simply doing things and tasks for a mere inertia. I was doing it because I had to do it or because I was supposed to do it. But I had not a real inner motivation that could lead me to do it in the best way I could.
You know the phrase saying that:
do things you have passion for and you will never work a day in your life
Something like that.
When I am motivated in doing something, I usually give 110% of my skills and my efforts because I like what I am doing, I see a reason and a future of the actions I am performing and so on.
I still remember when I was a kid, my dad put on me a challenge: we could go out eating Pizza every 10 times I brought at home the maximum score at Elementary School. I could not tell you how much motivated I was. I loved pizza and the maximum score was almost my average then.
Team-members struggle together because they want to win.
Partners struggle together because they want bigger dividends.
Sales-man struggle to get bigger earnings and eventually some productivity bonuses.
A coach struggle to become a better person to coach and inspire the “coached ones”.
Why you can see people not motivated in doing the stuffs that they are doing?
I found different options but I would appreciate reading yours.
**The first one **is that they feel “forced” in what they are doing. They feel the task to be done with the lowest possible effort in the shortest time, with the lowest attention.
it’s a matter of fact and I call it “the employee state of mind” working on an hourly budget and not on a best result budget.
To motivate them I usually see sharing part of the profits with them, so to incentivize them giving their best to get a better result. So money or recognition can become the triggers for a better involvement in the activity.
The second is that they are simply not pragmatic enough. They have all the motivation of the world, they know that they are doing it for specific purposes but then they loose themselves in the wind.
They are like a leaf in the wind: strong, until the bound with the tree does not break and at that point they will follow the wind trend.
Then there are the people motivated for a short time that cannot keep the commitment for a long time. This is typical on people not really motivated (that need continuous boost of the motivation) or people that have not full confidence in themselves. In this latest case, they will start fulfilling the duty but then, they will be overwhelmed by other things that they think they can manage but they will start lacking something somewhere.
In the end, it’s just a matter of motivation on why we are doing something.
If you have an 8-hours job that pays you living, you go there on time, and if the boss needs you stay there longer.
The same commitment should be pursued in other fields where there is not a boss firing you but eventually people losing patience and faith, or simply, removing tasks and delegation until they will not see a continuous and solid commitment.
It’s a matter of why. Finding, comprehending and remembering your WHY.
And the missing question:
Want better results? Put efforts, aim for results while learning how to pursue them
Pictures are from an old folder of mine, grabbed here and there from chats, internet and so on.