How do you aquire career
motivation? What should you do to boost your ambitions to
advance in your profession? And how to stay motivated over
a long period of time?
Accept that no one but you has the ultimate
responsibility for your career development planning
You need qualifications, skills and talents
You need credentials
You need support from other people;
your family and friends, your leisure fellows, your colleges
and other people within your profession. Lets take a closer
look at the people who can motivate you to get your career
moving:
The people who love you can give you motivation
How does it feel to come home after a
long and hard working day and be received like a King? You
are met in the door by your spouse, your kids or closest friends
whose eyes light up when they see you? They probably make
you feel that the effort you have made during your working
day was worth it, that this effort makes other people happy
and you will probably feel encouraged to endeavour even more
to make them even happier, because you see that they make
you happy. Your closest personal relationship network is your
base, the main purpose why you have a job or a profession.
There's probably no better reason why you're working than
for the happiness and security of the people who live together
with you in your own 'nest'.
Your network of leisure peers can motivate
you
Everybody needs leisure time, something
outside the job and outside the home too. You need to socialize
with acquaintances from time to time for sharing interest
and hobbies or even partying with. These people and the activities
you perform together have little or nothing to do with your
job or profession. To enjoy hobbies like bridge or casino
gambling, biking or riding, fishing or football together with
people that have similar interest to you, motivates you to
advance in your career because such activities satisfy a need
that you have and that your career environment can't. If you
don't take care of your entire person you will not feel well
and your profession planning and advancement will also suffer.
Therefore, having something outside your home and job that
can take care of the parts of your personality that your home
and job are not able to, is necessary for staying motivated
in your job and profession.
Get motivation from your Professional
mastermind group
You've probably been at various seminars
and meetings inside as well as outside your work place. During
the years you've been working you've also probably aquired
lots of professional contacts like former coworkers and supervisors,
college professors and other academic professionals, career
counselors and other people like yourself, with the same background
and education. This is your mastermind group and represents
an invaluable resource for your profession advancement; professionals
you can network with, discussing many topics that can be beneficial
for everyone. Just by knowing that you have this resource-pool
available is a significant motivating factor for you own career
planning and development. Remember, each of us has something
the other may need.
Your mentor equals your motivator
A personal mentor is probably the most
career motivating person you can have. If you are able to
get yourself a clever and trustworthy mentor don't hesitate,
find one now. A mentor is a person who gives you advise regarding
your profession issues. He or she coaches you and gives you
support in your profession planning and development. He also
introduces you to the people who can help you in building
your career and assures that your profession is developing
in the right direction. He helps you make a career plan, compares
your progress with the plan, analyzes deviations of the plan
and suggests actions to remain on track like participate in
certain training and other profession development activities.
To summarize: To aquire and stay motivated
about your career planning and development, you need awareness
of your own responsibility, qualifications and credentials
but most of all you need support from other people. Thus relationship
building - not only in your work place and within your profession
but outside that realm - is crucial for succeeding in your
career.
Terje Brooks Ellingsen
is a writer and internet publisher. He runs the website 1st-Self_Improvement.net.
Terje is a Sociologist who enjoys contributing to the personal
growth and happiness of others. He tries to accomplish this
by writing about self improvement issues from his own experience
and knowledge. For example, career
development planning and relationship
building.
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