What To Do About De-motivating Tasks At Work

“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.” Benjamin Fairless
 

Do you enjoy your job? Do you enjoy all your tasks, or do some tasks get you down? For example, some people love paperwork, but others hate it with a passion.  As most jobs require a degree of paperwork, there is not a lot you can do about it. However, if most of your job is taken up by paperwork and you hate it, or another task that you hate, there are certain things you could do about it:

You can ask to be re-assigned to a different department which does not require you to do the task that you hate, or where there is much less of that task involved.

You can ask for someone who loves the job you hate to be your partner. This way, you are working on your strengths, and your partner is too. So if you hate cold calling, for example, partner with someone who excels at that, while you go out and make the sales, and share the commission.

Create a system or use a tool. It has been proven that systems work. Tools you could use could be a tape recorder, or a camera.

You can ask for ways to do your task differently such as submitting pictures or a video instead of writing about it.

You can minimise the amount of work by making a template that you just fill in the blanks.  Find out from your boss whether it would be okay to hand in something that is adequate as opposed to perfect. If it is not your strength, you can argue that your time is best spent in the areas that you are strong.

You can do a psychometric test which you can take to your boss to show which areas motivate you and which jobs don’t suit your talents and abilities. Then employ the strategies above to negotiate terms of your employment that is more in line with your natural talents and gifts.

Most people find some tasks in their job de-motivating. There is no-one who is great at every area in their job. We all have areas in our jobs which we don’t enjoy. People who are the most successful in their job employ the strategies above to make their job more enjoyable and to work to their strengths.

Find out which job you are naturally good at.

 Books on Job Satisfacion:

Job Satisfaction: Application, Assessment, Causes, and Consequences (Advanced Topics in Organizational Behavior)

The Office: Keys to Job Satisfaction

Getting Motivated To Meet Your Goal

By Hannah du Plessis

“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfilment.” Earl Nightingale

What if you could wave a magic wand and have what you want tomorrow? Would you appreciate it? Would it stay that way?

The answer is probably no, because we have a “software program” in our brains that keeps us where we are. If we are poor, we stay poor. If we are sick, we stay sick. It takes a decision to change and a commitment to stick to whatever you need to do to change. 

That is why, when someone wins the lotto, he or she is rich for a while, but after a while they are right back where they started. That is why most people make New Year’s resolutions, but then can’t stick to it. 

So then, it takes courage to set a goal and stick to it. You need a powerful why: Why reach that goal? What would it take to get there? 

You need to write your goal down, as well as your reason to get there. You need to have it pinned up everywhere so you can keep it in your vision always. 

You need to visualise the goal, imagine what it would feel like when you’ve attained it, and give your full attention to the attaining of it. 

This is how to motivate yourself. You can also do affirmations, write the goal and your “why” down daily, and either get hypnosis or do self-hypnosis or auto-suggestion. Do anything it takes to have your goal in your mind all the time. 

This is how to attain happiness. Nothing gives one more satisfaction than reaching a goal. 

You are in charge of your future.

Books on achieving goals:

Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World 

How to Set and Achieve Goals 

Stay in School Series: Setting Goals for Success 

Clear Mind - Bright Future: Goal Setting with Focus, Energy and Achievement