The Importance of Motivation in the Workplace
Motivation is an essential quality to have in the workplace, especially if you intend to forge a successful career. If you’re doing a job you hate you may struggle to stay motivated, but then it’s up to you to look for something else, as otherwise you may find yourself stuck doing something you hate for a long time to come. This could make it even more difficult to find a different job in future, particularly if your lack of motivation has had a negative impact on the quality of your work. You therefore need to find a way to keep yourself motivated to do the best job you can so that you are able to achieve the kind of success you deserve.
If you’re not particularly motivated in the workplace your colleagues are likely to pick up on this and if it appears that you’re not pulling on your weight you probably aren’t going to be very popular. If you drag your feet every time you’re asked to do something and you set about tasks with very little enthusiasm so that it takes you longer to get everything done you will make a name for yourself as someone who is lazy. This won’t help you if you want to be promoted and to start moving up the career ladder, especially if the quality of your work is as poor as your attitude.
You have to go to work to earn some money so that you can pay your bills and so you can treat yourself now and again, which is usually what keeps you motivated enough to keep going into work every day and on time. Maybe you’re doing a job that you don’t particularly enjoy, but which isn’t too bad and that pays reasonably well, which is why you keep doing a good job, since you don’t want to find yourself being laid off as a result of turning up late and not getting enough work done.
It doesn’t really matter what keeps you motivated in the workplace, whether it’s simply to keep the job you have so you can keep earning cash or because you want to build up a career, as long as you stay motivated. The problems come when you’re doing a job you really loathe doing, especially if there aren’t many other jobs that you could apply for. There has to be at least one aspect of your job that you don’t mind doing, though, even if it is only the people you work with, which is what you have to focus on to keep yourself motivated.
