How to Stay Motivated at Work

Everyone needs help to find the motivation to push through difficult or tedious tasks to be productive and reach their goals at one time or another. When starting a new role, the demands are high, and your skill levels are not yet honed. As you grow and develop in the position, you grow toward a balance of challenges with tasks you feel you can achieve. You're motivated. But, as you master the tasks, you'll end up bored if you repeatedly do the same things. Before you start looking for a new job, here are some strategies for staying motivated at work:

Seek Purpose and Meaning.?

You're more likely to feel motivated and productive when you can see the impact of your work. What is the purpose and meaning behind your role? Some projects have a more obvious and outward-facing purpose, but finding meaning in routine tasks is important too. Connect your work to a bigger purpose and think of how even those repetitive tasks play into the big picture. Get involved in your company, build relationships, and find your purpose and meaning from the people around you.

Track Progress And Achievement

Another strategy to stay motivated at work is to track your progress and achievements. Research suggests that?progress ?is a powerful human motivator. And at a personal level, achievement comes in two forms. You feel progress first when your skills develop when you learn a new skill or master new knowledge. You also feel progress when you achieve a goal, like finishing a major project or crossing a milestone toward completion. So, create ways to track that progress to look back at it. Send yourself an email documenting the day you crossed that milestone or completed that training to learn a new skill. You'll get a jolt of motivation at the moment, but, more importantly, you'll have documentation showing just how much you've learned and achieved over the last year or more. And that will keep you feeling motivated as well.

Build a Feedback Loop

Build feedback systems into your daily routine to stay engaged. Feedback systems are mechanisms you create to monitor how well you're doing the tasks you need to be doing that day. It could be as simple as a daily checklist with the most important tasks of the day decided at the beginning and then compared at the end to how many critical tasks you did. It could also be tracking how many sales calls you made, how many customer service inquiries you cleared, or how much time you spent helping your team. Whatever is critical to your job, create a metric that provides feedback on how you're doing, and you'll quickly find you enjoy the challenge of improving that number each day.

Reward Yourself

The pull of a future reward can be great motivation to get work done. Take time to reward yourself for your hard work. These rewards can be small, like going on a walk or getting a favorite treat, or larger, like going on vacation or to a fancy dinner. Knowing something enjoyable is waiting for you on the other side of the work motivates and is a great reward for getting things done.

Staying motivated can be difficult, but if you can master this skill will open doors for an incredible career and personal growth.?

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