Impact of Motivation

           Motivation plays a vital role in our life. Each of us needs Motivation in our Life. If you are a working Professional, Student, House wife etc. Without Motivation we at times choose an incorrect path which leads to lot of dissatisfaction, Mental Tension and we end up failing our target. Missing our Goal is the biggest pain for any human being. If you want your dreams come true always seek feedback and be ready to listen to some good or bad things about you. Your peers, Boss or your family members or any other person around you can guide you and keep you motivated if he/she is concern about your. I bet you that if you try for the genuine feedback you’ll get that and it will help you to achieve your targets and keep you motivated.

I am going to share different Types of Motivation and their impact in our day to day life.

There are two types of motivation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation. It's important to understand that we all are not same; thus effectively motivating your employees requires that you gain an understanding of the different types of motivation. Each individual may have different qualities which makes us special. Such an understanding will enable you to better categorize your team members and apply the appropriate type of motivation. You will find each member different and each member's motivational needs will be varied as well. Some people respond best to intrinsic which means "from within" and will meet any obligation of an area of their passion. Quite the reverse, others will respond better to extrinsic motivation which, in their world, provides that difficult tasks can be dealt with provided there is a reward upon completion of that task. Try to become an expert in determining which type will work best with which team members. There is a possibility you may not be able to understand your peers correctly but don’t lose your hope and try it again with more preparation.

Intrinsic Motivation

Intrinsic motivation means that the individual's motivational stimuli are coming from within. The individual has the desire to perform a specific task, because its results are in accordance with his belief system or fulfills a desire and therefore importance is attached to it.

Our deep-rooted desires have the highest motivational power. Below are some examples:

·     Acceptance: We all need to feel that we, as well as our decisions, are accepted by our co-workers. Giving Orders to you peers or your repartees will not work every time. We need to be smart enough to judge our colleagues. Your few harsh words will spoil your image. Believe me it takes ages to improve your spoiled image.

·     Curiosity: We all have the desire to be in the know. Always appreciate your peers if they have done anything good for you or for the organization.

·     Honor: We all need to respect the rules and to be ethical. Mantra is Give Respect & Take Respect.

·     Independence: We all need to feel we are unique.  Always provide personal space to your peers and try to check with them after each interval to get the status. Let them take the ownership of the task you assigned. With this small action you are making them a better professional which will help them to compete with the world down the line.

·     Order: We all need to be organized. Order doesn’t means order like Hitler ordered to kill and a gun man killed the whole nation. Help your peers to learn how to customize the work and set it as per priority.

·     Power: We all have the desire to be able to have influence. If you are able to identify that your peer have knowledge and it can be used to improve the group give them some power to show their caliber. Let them lead and guide them for better results.

·     Social contact: We all need to have some social interactions. Being a Manger it’s not necessary that you need to keep a track on each and every activity of your reporters. They are also human allow them some time to influence others so they can create their own repo.

·     Social Status: We all have the desire to feel important. If you have noticed your peer or reporters has done something good. Give them a Pat on Back. One small appreciation can do wonders.

Extrinsic Motivation

Extrinsic motivation means that the individual's motivational stimuli are coming from outside. In other words, our desires to perform a task are controlled by an outside source. Note that even though the stimuli are coming from outside, the result of performing the task will still be rewarding for the individual performing the task.

Extrinsic motivation is external in nature. The most well-known and the most debated motivation is money. Below are some other examples:

·         Employee of the month award

·         Benefit package

·         Bonuses

·         Organized activities

I know I have shared this huge topic very briefly however you can learn more via regularly visiting my site.

I am sure this is going to help you to be a better Human Being, Peer or a Wonderful Manager.

"Motavitation is the Art of getting People to do,

              What you want them to do becuase they want to do it."

Smile Sparkle Shine..

I was waiting in line to book a new house allotment to the nearby registrar office on MG Road.  New Delhi, India. I noticed that the clerk appointed on the customer care window appeared to be bored with the job-reading same documents, sharing the same plans & provisions with every customer, Checking Stamp Papers, and rest all other necessary documents for the registration process. The same monotonous grind day after day, year after year. So I said to myself:” I am going to try to make this clerk like me. Obviously, to make him like me, I must say something nice, not about myself but about him.” So I asked myself: What is there about him that I can honestly admire?” that is sometimes a hard question to answer, especially with strangers; but, in this case, it happened to be easy. I instantly say something I admired no end.

             So while he was checking all my documents for registration purpose, he asked me to show the original documents. He was sounding rude and tired.  I noticed that he got good shiny curly hairs like any model or a movie actor. I remarked with enthusiasm: “I certainly wish I had your head of hair.”

            He looked up, half-started, his face beaming with smiles. “Well, it isn’t as good as it used to be,” he said modestly. I assured him that although it might have listed some of its pristine glory, never-the less it was still magnificent. He was immensely pleased. We carried a pleasant little conversation and the last thing he said to me was:” Many people have admired my hair.”

              I’ll bet that person went out to lunch that day walking on air. I’ll bet he went home that night and told his wife about it. I’ll bet he looked in the mirror and said: “it is a beautiful head on hair.”

While reading this you will ask me that,” What did I want to get out of him?”

What was I trying to get out of him!!!

             If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to get something out of the other person in return- if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we will meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

             Fact is YES, I did want something out of this incidence, I wanted something priceless. And I got it; I got the feeling that I had done something for him without his being able to do anything whatever in return for me. That is a feeling that flows and sings in your memory long after the incident is past.

Believe me these small moments in our life will help everyone around us and we can make others like us, spreading smile and making them feel special. These small memorable moments will give a new energy to anyone who is bored with his routine life by doing the same kind of work every day.

Spread Happiness like a Virus....... "Peace Begins with Smile"

Learn to Juggle between Personal and Professional Life.

I recently participated in a seminar where Suchman and Ramamurthy defined the balance as something that "each of us strikes between our own enrichment and depletion" which is "critical to our physical, emotional, and spiritual health". For many researchers and clinicians it is challenging to successfully balance their professional responsibilities with personal priorities, including spouse, family, personal and spiritual growth, as well as physical health. I have seen millions of examples in our real life where we can easily determine about one’s imbalance life.

Few quick tips which can help us to improve our Personal and Professional Life.


Balance your Personal and Professional Life.

• When you wake up in the morning, prepare a list of tasks you need to complete for the day both professional and personal.
• As you step in the office prioritize your tasks
• Keep an eye on your schedule, if you are going slow on your tasks, reschedule immediately.
• When you leave the office, wipe your mind!
• Talk to your family as much as you can.
• Make your weekends and holidays memorable.

         The lack of balance between the personal and professional life can cause a burnout, a syndrome that includes emotional exhaustion, depersonalization of relationships, patients and the work, reduced sense of accomplishment (negative self-evaluation), and can be associated with impaired job performance and poor health.

          To prevent this stage of complete exhaustion it is essential to reflect on and clarify personal values and choices. Spending time with family and friends, religious or spiritual activity, self-care, including nutrition, exercise, and a supportive spouse or partner serve as key factors in balancing work and life. In addition, it is important to control the workload, find a meaning in work, and settle limits as well as learn to use administrative support systems adequately. As John Gardner puts it: "Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties . . . out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in; out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something." To maintain the work-life balance it turns out to be crucial to define values and to ask fundamental questions about the reasons why you chose your profession, the areas where you think you are irreplaceable, and what would you like your life to be like in 10 years?

Below is a list of some helpful tool to define personal priorities and barriers you face in allocating time and energy.

Urgent	Not urgent
(MANAGE) Crisis Medical emergencies Pressing problems Deadline-driven projects Last-minute preparations for scheduled activities	(FOCUS) Preparation/planning Prevention Values clarification Exercise Relationship-building True recreation/relaxation
Quadrant of Necessity	Quadrant of Quality & Personal Leadership
(AVOID) Interruptions, some calls Some mail & reports Some meetings Many "pressing" matters Many popular activities	(AVOID) Trivia, busywork Junk mail Some phone messages/email Time wasters Escape activities Viewing mindless TV shows
Quadrant of Deception	Quadrant of Waste

Get Inspiration & Lead to Inspire.



"Get Inspiration & Lead to Inspire."

We often get inspired by others ideas, personality, and their achievements and the mile stones set by others. It’s very easy to get inspired with any one and start following that personality to fulfill your dreams and be like them. On the other hand it’s very tough to find the unique avenue and to achieve your goals, set mile stones for others and Lead to inspire. Being others leader is not easy as we normally think. We need to work hard to fulfill our dreams and with our genuine efforts ,lots of dedication, positive approach, learning from our failures, getting motivation by others, CAN Do approach, taking ownership of our failures and lot of others factors helps us to create our own unique personality and set a new mile stone for upcoming generations.

Do you think it was easy for Barack Obama to become a President of America? Was it easy for Narendra Modi to become a Prime Minister? No it was not that easy, because we all are not born with a silver spoon in our mouth like few others lucky fellows on this planet. Everyone have to work hard to maintain their personality because each of us may or may not have followers and if we will not improve then we will lose our followers and history will remember us for this failure. Don’t forget that no one is perfect and there is always a room to improve. Each single step towards our improvement leads to improvement and perfection.

When we take birth our family helps us to learn everything and make us future ready. We often hear this from everyone that one is inspired from his/her Mom or Dad. It’s quite normal our first inspiration comes from our family.

 

I’d like to share a short story about a son and his old father.

A son took his old father to a restaurant for an evening dinner.  Father being very old and weak and while eating he dropped food on his shirt and trousers.  Other diners watched him in disgust while his son was calm.

After he finished eating, his son who was not at all embarrassed, quietly took him to the wash room, wiped the food particles, removed the stains, combed his hair and fitted his spectacles firmly.  When they came out, the entire restaurant was watching them in dead silence, not able to grasp how someone could embarrass themselves publicly like that.  The son settled the bill and started walking out with his father.

At that time, an old man amongst the diners called out to the son and asked him, “Don’t you think you have left something behind?”

The son replied, “No sir, I haven’t”.

The old man retorted, “Yes, you have!  You left a lesson for every son and hope for every father”.

The restaurant went silent. This Son can be our inspiration and can help all of to be gentle and kind with our old parents because they need us the most. At times our Old parents are like a small kid and needs lot of attention.

             “To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”

            It’s not necessary that we can only get inspired from rich business tycoons, popular TV personalities or leaders. We can get inspiration from a common man around us. Anyone can spread the positive vibes around us and give us an idea to be like them. Try to get the properties like a Magnet does, to attract others.

We all are unique and have some built in features that can make us inspiration for others. We need to take a stand and need to come out of our comfort zone if we would like to become a hero. If you are passionate enough to live your life the way we want then you have to follow some basis guidelines to be a leader for others.

Follow few things to become others inspiration:-

Be honest.

Respect others.

Be Humble.

Learn from your and others bad experiences.

Never lose your patience.

Don’t blame your destiny.

Be Positive.

Stay away from negative personalities and get attracted towards some positive real life heroes.

Don’t feel embarrassed if you failed.

If you are again ready to fight with your failures that means you are still “ON” and you are in the Game. You can only loose if you will stop trying. Keep on trying until you succeed.