How to get hold of my motivations
When I wrote my resumes, motivated is often the first word jumps into my mind and always lands on the paper. I thought of the jobs I was applying, and imagined how I would perform in the new company, or even in the new field, then I felt nothing but motivation. Then someone's blog hits me -- it is not wise to list motivated as a quality to be seeked in writing a job requirement. People are always motivated when he starts the job, and that motivation is always going to slide as time goes on, and at some point, one will gets filled with all but motivation.
So what happened?
What happened is the drop of one's expectation. When one first steps into a new company or a new field, one holds many expectaions -- the expectaion that he will do well. Where do the expectaions come from? Expectations come from the many plans he had for his new job and new career. These plans, or sometime strategies are often very coarse, and often very naive. When you don't have much experience in a new field, you can't have much realistic plans. However, these simplistic plans pumps up our expectations and motivations. Then, as time goes by, our experience grows, and we run out of plans, and our expectations drops, so away goes our motivation.
So here is some tips on how to get hold of our emotions.
1. Change career. Change into a new career that you don't have much experience yet, and still you can formulate a rich plan during your 5 minute day-dreaming.
2. Changing career needs much of cowboy sprit, and may not be able to afford the 10-year experience build-up time, so rather than changing career, we can change jobs. Formulate a rich plan to dominate the company based on the experience minus the limit of your current job.
3. Well, finding a new job may be quite chanllenging, so one more thing we can play is to mentally change your job. From all the possible functions that your current job involves and tring to move your focus to a different set of functions than you currently has. Of course, you need formulate plans and pump up expectaions, naturally.
4. Even we are stuck in the same old same old, we still can change our views. My approach is zoom out and zoom in. Every object in this world is as rich as the world itself; and as a matter, we often only see one smalle portion of it, then our mind plays trick tells us what we see is the whole thing. By zoom out, the object become atom, and is very simplistic, thus we can formulate all kinds of naive plans to attack it, thus pumps up our expectations. Then by zoom in again, chances are, because the object itself is so vast in reality, we often can't zoom back into the spot where we used to see. Thus, by zooming out and zooming in, we created a totaly new meaning of the old job, along with the new motivation.
5. Forget all the above rubbish, we just need simplify the problem, formulate naive plans, and pumps up our expectations. Our motivations will follow. :)
So what happened?
What happened is the drop of one's expectation. When one first steps into a new company or a new field, one holds many expectaions -- the expectaion that he will do well. Where do the expectaions come from? Expectations come from the many plans he had for his new job and new career. These plans, or sometime strategies are often very coarse, and often very naive. When you don't have much experience in a new field, you can't have much realistic plans. However, these simplistic plans pumps up our expectations and motivations. Then, as time goes by, our experience grows, and we run out of plans, and our expectations drops, so away goes our motivation.
So here is some tips on how to get hold of our emotions.
1. Change career. Change into a new career that you don't have much experience yet, and still you can formulate a rich plan during your 5 minute day-dreaming.
2. Changing career needs much of cowboy sprit, and may not be able to afford the 10-year experience build-up time, so rather than changing career, we can change jobs. Formulate a rich plan to dominate the company based on the experience minus the limit of your current job.
3. Well, finding a new job may be quite chanllenging, so one more thing we can play is to mentally change your job. From all the possible functions that your current job involves and tring to move your focus to a different set of functions than you currently has. Of course, you need formulate plans and pump up expectaions, naturally.
4. Even we are stuck in the same old same old, we still can change our views. My approach is zoom out and zoom in. Every object in this world is as rich as the world itself; and as a matter, we often only see one smalle portion of it, then our mind plays trick tells us what we see is the whole thing. By zoom out, the object become atom, and is very simplistic, thus we can formulate all kinds of naive plans to attack it, thus pumps up our expectations. Then by zoom in again, chances are, because the object itself is so vast in reality, we often can't zoom back into the spot where we used to see. Thus, by zooming out and zooming in, we created a totaly new meaning of the old job, along with the new motivation.
5. Forget all the above rubbish, we just need simplify the problem, formulate naive plans, and pumps up our expectations. Our motivations will follow. :)
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