SAS 023 – Motivation

SysAdmin Show

Today’s episode is all about getting motivated. If you feel like your stuck spinning your wheels in your IT career this episode will help you get moving!

• We are motivated for many different reasons
  • Basic needs
    • Food
    • Water
    • Shelter
  • Peer pressure
    • They want
  • Guilt/Fear/Obligation
    • I should
  • Reward
    • I can
  • Internal desire – the most rare
    • I want
• Why does motivation matter?
  • You will be most satisfied with a career founded on an internal desire
  • Recognition, guild and money will only bring you so much satisfaction
  • You will likely spend 30-40 years working, so you might as well enjoy it
  • You will earn more if you enjoy do
• How to get motivated
  • Motivation follows action
    • Try something, even if you don’t want to
    • Think about what you have liked in the past
    • Make a plan
    • Take steps toward your goal, anything to get you closer to it
    • Focus on one primary goal for a specific period of time
    • Create affirmation statements
      • I am valuable
    • Identify and remove self limiting beliefs
      • I don’t deserve to make over X
      • Work shouldn’t be fun

Final Thoughts

• Feeling that your work matters and that you are making a difference is considered the number one reason for job satisfaction