We probably all remember how in childhood we couldn’tI wanted to wash the dishes every day, take my little brother to kindergarten or do morning exercises every day without missing a single exercise. And then our parents, trying to make us want to conscientiously do the work that we really didn’t want to do, promised us something nice in return. For example, a trip to the circus, a new dress or pocket money. And these promised benefits served as motivation for us to fulfill our duties. Such motivation is also needed by adults to help them force themselves to do something better than they usually do. Most often, we need motivation at work. Many employers implement a system of monetary rewards for conscientious work. But what should we do if the management is in no hurry to encourage our efforts? And it is impossible to wait for encouragement every day. And laziness often overcomes, you don’t want to do anything at all! And what should a “night owl” do, who has to get up early in the morning every day when her eyes don’t want to open yet? How to get into the right mindset for work when everything is falling apart and there is no desire for labor feats? To succeed in the workplace, we must be our own best motivators. And we can really achieve great success if we can get into the right mindset for work even on the hardest day. With the right mindset, everything will fall into place, laziness will go away, and work will go well.

Configuring for work

Let's start with some advice for the poor night owl.How can this late bird get ready for a hard day at work? It is very important to create a positive impulse for yourself in the morning. The way you start your day will dictate the pace for the rest of your working time. Therefore, it is extremely important to start with an emotional “explosion”. You need to tell yourself: “I am successful, I am the best! I can do everything today better than I did yesterday! I want and can do everything I planned today!” You should mentally prepare yourself for the upcoming working day as soon as you get out of bed. This attitude will help the “owl” hold out until lunch, and then you will feel much better. It must be said that creating a positive impulse at the beginning of the day is necessary not only for the “owl”, but for everyone else. It’s just that for “owls” it can sometimes be very difficult to get going without such an impulse. Therefore, come up with exercises for yourself that will help you achieve a positive emotional attitude at the beginning of the day, and do them every morning. Here are some sample exercises that will put you in a good mood:

Think of something funny and tryto burst out laughing. During the laughter, the reflex works, and the brain receives a signal: "I'm having fun and good!". So you can learn how to make yourself feel good at will.

Listen to joyful music.

Vigorously perform morning exercises. Physical exercise contributes to the production of endorphins, on which a good mood depends.

Are there any other exercises thatwould help you develop positive motivation? And what else can you do to get in the mood for work? Maintain only positive conversations One of the main depressing moments of the office and any other work environment can be that many people prefer to scold the company, the management, one of their colleagues, the work in general. Needless to say, it is very difficult to stay motivated when someone’s negativity is constantly pouring out on us at the workplace. In any job, there are things that are good and things that you may not be happy with. Focus on the good, surround yourself with like-minded people who know how to enjoy their work, and you can be sure that your motivation will remain unshakable. Exercises to maintain a positive mood:

Every day, find for yourself one convincing reason why you like your work.

Come up with and write jokes that help to translate the conversation into another channel when someone wants to share with you their negative.

Mark for yourself all the good things that will happen to you during the working day. Try not to miss even trifles, if they have added to you a good mood.

Thinking about money It is no secret that money isa good motivator. However, doing our job every day, we gradually begin to forget how happy we were with our first money, and that it is our daily routine work that brings us this money. Remind yourself that every working day helps you earn new money. Think about the things you will not be able to buy if you do not work. If you work in an environment where you can influence your salary (for example, you have piecework or you are an entrepreneur), then money should be one of your main reasons for self-motivation, so that you can work more than anyone else. Exercises for motivation to earn money:

Make a list of things that you would like to buy. Determine how much you will need money for this and how long to earn it. Enter these numbers in the list of desired purchases.

Make a photo collage of objects you dream about, and hang them in a prominent place. Every day, consider the collage, while saying to yourself: "I want to buy it, and I can make money on it!"

Even if your salary does not depend on yourefforts, you should still work to the fullest of your abilities, and this brings you to the next point: Engage in healthy competition with colleagues You should always try to work better than others. You can even agree with colleagues and arrange a competition among yourselves: who does their work faster, who does it better, and who does it both better and faster? You can independently come up with tasks and exercises for each other that will help improve the quality of your work. Moreover, even the exercises themselves can become the object of competition - who will complete them better. All this will bring an element of fun rivalry into communication between colleagues, simultaneously helping to establish a more favorable atmosphere in the team. And you will learn to be more professional, you will find answers to questions that arise at work faster and you will practice motivating yourself to improve the quality of your work. Competition can lead to great achievements, up to and including rapid career advancement. Focus on long-term goals You still don’t want to go to work? And when you do get there, you can’t overcome your laziness? Do you know why this happens to you? Because every day is like the previous one. Yesterday and today you did the same thing that you will do tomorrow. You get bored when nothing new happens. But it is up to you to change something in the current state of affairs. Regardless of your current status, there is always an opportunity for professional growth. There will always be a position for you to work towards, and this can be a great way to motivate yourself. Thus, by setting a goal to achieve career growth, you will create in yourself a desire to work better. When you have a specific task in front of you, you will become interested in your work, and you will stop being bored at work. Exercises for setting long-term goals:

First, practice in setting goals forthis year. Set a common task for the year, break this task into stages. Write down by months when and what you want to do to achieve the goal. For example, the goal for a year is to master a foreign language in a certain amount. The task for each month is to study the intended topics and the specific number of words. Each month, check with your plan to monitor the success of its implementation.

Make a list of goals that are ready to putbefore you to achieve career growth. Think about what you will need to do to accomplish each task. Make a plan for your activities for the coming years.

If every day brings you something new,allowing you to get closer to your intended goal, you will no longer have to shake yourself in the morning, wondering how to get into the mood for work. Okay, we have sorted out the big goals. But sometimes you just want to work calmly, without trying to grab the star from the sky. Not everyone dreams of a big career! What should such people do? All these exercises on setting big goals are not interesting for them, and healthy competition with colleagues is not always possible. How in this case to arouse interest in work? You may not believe it, but in this case, the ability to set goals will help. Want to know how? Then read on.

Five tricks that will help generate interest in the work

Setting your own goals. If your employer does not set any goals for you, put them in front of you! Your goals can be daily, weekly, monthly. But if you just want to arouse interest in the work, then set a small time. The shorter the time limit for performing a particular task, the more likely that you really will do this job.

Encourage yourself. After you have accomplished the task set for yourself, establish a reward for yourself. If you make the planned amount of work, then next weekend, sit with your girlfriend in your favorite cafe. If you can earn a certain amount of money, you will take the children on an excursion, which they have long dreamed of. Be sure to promise yourself what you really want as a reward, otherwise your motivation will quickly disappear.

Be accountable to others. Often, we lack motivation because we know that no one is watching us. This is a big mistake, because it is very relaxing and reduces the desire to work! Charge your friends or family, and maybe someone from your employees to see how you carry out the plan. Knowing that someone can call you to account for the performance of your work, you will experience a very strong desire to work well.

Get support. If you feel that you are struggling to fulfill your goals and begin to lose interest in the work, then ask someone from your colleagues who you are on good terms with, so that she also makes a plan for her tasks. She does not need to help you in your work, and her tasks may differ from yours. A horse that runs in harness with another horse involuntarily accelerates its course. So you - you will be spurred on the progress of a colleague, and you, too, will want to succeed.

Often review your goals. Revision of goals helps to maintain motivation. First, you will be able to make sure of the presence or absence of your progress. Secondly, you can be sure that you have not set your goals to an unattainable level. If your goals are too high, you will quickly lose interest in them. When reviewing goals, you can correct them if you feel that you have set yourself a task too difficult.

The latest tips for those who find it hard to tune in to work

• Are you too lazy to work? Instead of meaningless wandering on the Internet read the news, fresh publications on your activities or do something that has long been postponed.
• A lot of important things have accumulated, and you do not know what to do first? Write down everything in order and think about what needs urgent implementation, and what can wait.
• Do you suffer from chronic fatigue? Take a vacation and lead your way of life in order, observing the regime. Sleep for up to ten hours, walk more, enrich your diet with vitamins, fresh and healthy foods.
• Not in a position to do something? Understand whether you really can not do it, or you just do not want to do it, coming up with various excuses.
• You can not force yourself to do somethingwork, and hands fall at the very thought of it? Determine what exactly causes this dislike. If in your activity such feelings appear quite often, it is worthwhile to think whether you have chosen the job for yourself, and, maybe, it makes sense to change the occupation?
• Postpone everything "for later", and do not have time to pass the job? The courses on organizing your time will help you.
• Do you regularly forget to do something? Will help structuring your tasks. Write down everything in the right sequence and mark it. But if you constantly forget about the same thing, it is worthwhile to understand why this is happening.
• Not even happy with what seemed exciting recently? Routine in any matter sooner or later can get bored. This is exactly the case when you just need to distract yourself and exercise your favorite thing.

Tell me, do you want to come home with a feeling?pride in what you were able to accomplish today? If you spend an average of eight hours at work, then perhaps it is an important part of your day and your life? Treat your work, whatever it is, with the desire to do it every day. When you can achieve this, you will be able to feel that you are living exactly as a full human life should be lived. We recommend reading:

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