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HOW TO GET MOTIVATED AT A WORKPLACE ELIJAH MITI All rights reserved. No part of this book should be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or be transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo copy, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without the written permission from the author and publisher, with the exception of brief excepts in magazines, articles, reviews, etc. ISBN: 978-0-620-48817-4 © 2011 By Elijah Miti Publisher: Elijah Miti Consultancy Enterprises Mobile: +27785666535 or +27761285439 Email: [email protected] Web site : www.elijahmiti.co.za www.ptt.webstarts.com www.elijahmiti.webstarts.com www.elijahmitimotivation.webstrats.com How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Contents Introduction 5 1. What Motivates You? 9 2. How To Prepare for Interview 35 3. Power Of The Tongue 43 4. How To Please Your Boss 53 5. Strategic Planning 69 6. Financial Thoughts 81 7. Why People Never Get Rich 87 8. Habits Of A Millionaire 93 9. Essential Skills of A Millionaire 105 10. How You Can Earn Money Quickly 113 About the Author 131 3 Work on your mindset. Three Things You Must Do To Create A Massive Massive Paradigm Shift. Shift. Imagine seeing things in a positive light. Banish negative thoughts. Just do this over and over again. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace INTRODUCTION M ost of the people today are angry and bitter about something, they complain almost about anything. World renowned motivational speaker Les Brown says that there is a record that most heart attacks happen between 07:00am and 08:00am in the morning because people are going to jobs they don’t like or jobs they hate. This book will help you overcome your fears, it will inspire you, it will guide you, it will motivate you to a point where you start loving whatever it is that you do so that you start doing it with tenacity, zeal, passion, love and dream of what you do best. In life there is a time for everything, there a time to be born and a time to die. In every person’s life there is a waiting period or a life span. Most people start school and finish school between the age of 5 and 20, then advance in their careers, for some that have families that can afford, go into 5 college or universities after school. But for most average people, just after finishing secondary or high school, they go straight into the job market to find a job to help their families and also be able to pay for their tertiary education. Once they start work, most people find that the job they find, they do not even like it, but nevertheless they just endure it because they have bills to pay and their attitude towards their job become negative. A Bad att attitude ttitude can sabotage your career because you start complaining about your job, you start coming in late, hate your boss for nothing, and hate those around your office who are being promoted because of their dedication and diligence. A Bad attitude toward your job brings in bitterness. In the bible there is a story of a widow who had lost her husband and children, her name was Naomi which means JOY. Because she was bitter for her loss she decided to move from Moab to Bethlehem and there, she said call me Marah (which means Bitterness). You don’t have to change your name because of the circumstances you are in today, hold on to your dream. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Bitterness is a bad nasty attitude that only sees negative things and forgets the positive things .You can be bitter in life and be a good person too. There are people that are bitter and they complain and find faults in anything that you do whether good or bad. Most people today have destroyed their careers because of their own attitude towards a job. It’s their fault and they don’t even know about it. Bitter people always blame somebody else for their problems. There is a call for action, you have prayed, fasted, waited for too long, its time to take action and make that step towards a positive attitude. This book is for those that are saying enough is enough; I want to change my life, my attitude and get a career motivation because I believe that all things are possible to them that believe. Instead of being bitter you can choose to become better by changing your attitude and knowing the WHY for your living. 7 HAVE GOALS G – God God: I’m a firm believer that God answers prayers. O – Overcoming Overcoming: Never think about quitting. A – Attitude Attitude: You have heard the saying “Your attitude determines your altitude. L – Lasting: Lasting This is the ability to keep fighting regardless of your overwhelming circumstances. S – Success Success: By making smart choices, goal setting, developing a positive attitude, serving others, and asking God for the strength and wisdom to set and accomplish your goals, you will be victorious and even grow personally as an individual. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *1* WHAT MOTIVATES YOU? 9 Life--Changing Decisions 7 Life 1. Decide that enough is enough. 2. Decide that you're going to raise your standards. 3. Decide that you're no longer going to make excuses. 4. Decide you're going to work with others. 5. Decide that good enough is good enough. 6. Decide that you'll stop looking for the magic pill. 7. Decide that you're going to start now. Take Massive Action How To Get Motivated At A Workplace F or some time now, many people say that they are in wrong careers because they did not have powerful career guidance from parents and schools they attended. As I was writing this book I interviewed a few people and 70% said that they hated their jobs, the only motivation was that they got a salary at the end of the month to sustain them and pay bills. I discovered that many young men and woman are in careers chosen for them by their parents or guardians as such, even though they can earn a lot of money and be in high positions of office; there is still a void in most young people. There is always a void in the area of job satisfaction because the career they wanted was never attained. It is important that if you are in such a situation you make a decision to either start studying towards the career of your passion and dream or do all you can to just accept what you have and be motivated to start loving the Job you are in. What is Motivation? Motivation is derived from the word MOTIVE which means drive, wants, desire within individuals. Motivation is a desire to a goal, combined with energy to work towards that Goal. 11 Motivation is also a driving force or a reason for exhibiting a particular kind of behaviour called human behaviour. In the workplace environment, there is need to motivate staff not only with benefits in terms of a salary, but also with training and mentorship that institute a physiological feature that arouses an individual to action towards a desired goal. Andrew Carnegie said it best with his quote “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” Self-motivation is an essential part of excelling at life. You must learn to motivate yourself because you cannot depend on others to do it for you. You have to know how to encourage yourself regardless of how bad the situation. There are motivation. - several keys to building self- Work towards a cause. Don’t compare yourself to others. Make the conscious effort to not give up. Don’t live in your past failures or successes. Utilize positive thinking. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace There are times when you may need motivation to get motivated. Positive thinking may not be doing the trick. What should you do? Consider these suggestions: - Write down your plan for improvement. Briefly think about your past successes. Read books that promote self-motivation. Do you know what motivates you? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do you know why you do what you do and work where you work? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Most of us believe that the only reason or motivation as to why we work is to be paid a salary to enable us pay bills. But money alone is not the only motivation one needs; there are lot of people with high paying jobs who are unhappy 13 with their jobs and do not have that sense and the feeling of fulfilment. The following are some of the areas that can help you love your job and get motivated in your current situation. Independence Most people feel comfortable working on their own independently and the opportunity to be their own boss that motivates them. How important is wining to you? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do you always feel disagreement with your superiors? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Recognition Do you get the recognition and reward you deserve for the job you do? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. People feel motivated if they are awarded some form of recognition at their work place with things like worker of the month, best dressed guy. I remember in 2007 I received an award as the best dressed guy at the company I was working for and that motivated other work colleagues to start dressing up nicely. Achievement Every worker has an assignment and the feeling of accomplishing a task though through certain obstacles usually motivates people to work hard after receiving a compliment from their boss (Well done John, for this an excellent job, keeps it up). Is your performance relative to your efforts? 15 .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Power There is a certain African leader who once confessed that power is sweet. It is every workers desire to be the boss one day and be in the seat of power in a workplace. The sense of total control that you have over your destiny and the power to influence others achieve a desired objective usually motivates people. Some times as a boss, if you want to motivate staff, try giving them a day to act as a supervisor or give them more responsibilities where they lead a project and see their commitment to their job afterwards. Money This is usually the financial income an employee gets as a reward for the work they do for an organisation. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Money is a key motivator for any employee and the question is are you happy with what you are earning now? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. There is need for employers to seriously set up mentorship programs in the area of Financial Education. A lot of employees are in debt due to lack of knowledge in this area of managing finances and the end result is that this affects their general performance at work. A lot of stress by employees has nothing to do with the job or happiness at their workplace; it’s got to do with DEBT. Most of them have marital problems due to debt and as a result that affects their productivity at work. There is also need to set up a debt counselling program in organisations to help and teach employees ways and methods of coming out of debt once they are in the web. If you are in debt right now, swallow your pride and approach a debt counsel and your life will 17 never be stressful in the area of finance again. There is always a solution and a way to any problem. Pressure Pressure usually comes due to continued demand to improve work performance in order to meet the set deadlines of any assignment. Employees need to put more effort and be motivated by their supervisors that they can do better not just being condemned as poor performers. Types of Pressure: 1. Good Pressure: This type of pressure is as a result of an aggressive yet non-critical and non-harmful atmosphere. One aspires to be like the people around them. This motivation leads to the acquisition of selfregulation. 2. Bad Pressure: Bad pressure is when the atmosphere is critical and harmful. One has no motivation and loses selfregulation. 3. No Pressure: When one is not experiencing any pressure, they tend to act based on How To Get Motivated At A Workplace emotion, since there is no one to compare themselves to. Do you feel you are not exerting much effort? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do you think you need more training and mentorship for you to improve your work performance? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Family Life Family life has a very great impact and plays a major role on an employee’s performance. If a married employee is going through marital issues at home, it usually affects performance. Encourage employees to have enough time with their families and once in a while organise maybe 19 a company picnic where you allow staff members to bring their families and children. Do you spend enough time with your spouse? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do you spend enough time with your children? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Security A Job for many is a security to have constant supply of income to manage their day to day life and pay school fees, buy food and pay for shelter. Some jobs come with additional benefits such as pension, provident fund, funeral policy , medical air, car allowances and cell phone allowance which helps employees in case of an eventualities in life during their career. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace It’s been proved that some people can stay in one organisation for 50 years just because they feel a sense of security due to good employment benefits mentioned above (Pension). Is job security important to you? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Are you afraid to try something new? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do you do things that tend to secure your job? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 21 Personal Development The feeling of growing to become efficient, competent and a better person is very important for any employee. There is only 20% of influence that comes from others that can hinder your personal development. Let’s look at some of the hindrances: 1. Your Personality plays about 80% towards your success. A good personality will always attract favour and recognition in a workplace, while a bad personality can get you fired. Personality encompasses a number of characteristics that arise from within an individual. 2. Your Temperament – Sometimes your temperament can hinder your promotion. In psychology, temperament refers to those aspects of an individual's personality, such as introversion (These aren't simply shy people, although certainly many are shy. They also are not simply depressed individuals, although introverts just as extraverts can be depressed. And they aren't all social outcasts, although it may appear this way How To Get Motivated At A Workplace to the extraverts who need that ongoing social contact to be healthy and happy. Introversion is not a pathological condition; it is not an abnormal response to the world. It is simply a personality trait found in a small percentage of the or extroversion total population) (Extroverts tend to "fade" when alone and can easily become bored without other people around. When given the chance, an extrovert will talk with someone else rather than sit alone and think. In fact, extroverts tend to think as they speak, unlike introverts who are far more likely to think before they speak. Extroverts often think well when they are talking. Concepts just don't seem real to them unless they can talk about them; reflecting on them isn't enough), that are often regarded as innate rather than learned. There are four types of temperaments. Each of the four types of humours corresponded to a different personality type. Sanguine The Sanguine temperament personality is fairly extroverted. People of a sanguine 23 temperament tend to enjoy social gatherings, making new friends and tend to be quite loud. They are usually quite creative and often daydream. However, some alone time is crucial for those of this temperament. Sanguine can also mean very sensitive, compassionate and thoughtful. Sanguine personalities generally struggle with following tasks all the way through, are chronically late, and tend to be forgetful and sometimes a little sarcastic. Often, when pursuing a new hobby, interest is lost quickly when it ceases to be engaging or fun. They are very much people persons. They are talkative and not shy. Sanguine can be sometimes emotional. Choleric A person who is choleric is a do-er. They have a lot of ambition, energy, and passion, and try to instil it in others. They can dominate people of other temperaments, especially phlegmatic types. Many great charismatic military and political figures were cholerics. They like to be leaders and in charge of everything. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Melancholic A person who is a thoughtful ponderer has a melancholic disposition. Often very considerate and get rather worried when they could not be on time for events, melancholic’s can be highly creative in activities such as poetry and art - and can become occupied with the tragedy and cruelty in the world. A melancholic is also often a perfectionist. They are often self-reliant and independent; one negative part of being a melancholic is sometimes they can get so involved in what they are doing they forget to think of others. Phlegmatic Phlegmatics tend to be self-content and kind. They can be very accepting and affectionate. They may be very receptive and shy and often prefer stability to uncertainty and change. They are very consistent, relaxed, calm, rational, curious, and observant, making them good administrators. However they can also be very passive-aggressive. 25 3. Your Skill - A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both. Skill can either help you or hinder your personal growth. Your gifts and talent will make room for you and make you stand before great men. 4. Your Ability to do something brings up personal growth. There are two most important abilities : 1. Intellectual Abilities That requires doing mental activities. Intellectual ability commonly refers to the ability measured by performance on an intelligence test. 2. Physical Abilities These require doing tasks demanding stamina, dexterity, strength, and similar characteristics. 5. Your Habit - Habits are routines of behaviour that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously .There are good and bad habits .The good habits you do daily can brighten your future success. Good habits always bring up a good successful future. Bad behaviour always hinders success. Habit triggers, needs, How To Get Motivated At A Workplace thoughts, emotions, impulses unconscious patterns of behaviour. and 6. Your Attitude can put food on the table or remove food from your table. Attitude can make you stay in the game until the end or quit along the way. Most of the times when you go for an interview the employers are not look at your qualifications, but checking out your attitude and the way you answer the questions. Bad Attitude makes one think with negative emotions and can cause one to make bad decisions. Negative attitude makes people give excuses and become arrogant. 7. Your Education also plays a part sometimes for your promotion and the position of office they grant you. Education is the process of learning and acquiring information. It’s been documented that 58% of people who leave school never read a book in their life time and 10% of them read and are usually abreast with what’s happening around them. Don’t retire your mind, study towards a career that will bring your personal growth. Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, 27 character or individual. physical ability of an 8. Your Experience - Experience refers to the nature of the events someone or something has undergone. Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of something or some event gained through involvement in or exposure. Your negative experiences in life should not let you close down and hinder your success. 9. Surrender your life to success. Anything you want to become has to do with your decision. You need to move from slow down to success. During my time as an employee, I got motivated in personal development by attending workshops, seminars and training in areas I needed improvement. I would recommend that you put some keen interest in attending in house training programs as that even puts you at an advantage when it comes to apply for senior positions in other departments. Do you think you have grown in your present job? How To Get Motivated At A Workplace .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Are your getting the results you are supposed to get? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do you do specific things to improve your current work performance? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 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Are you getting the desired results in your search for personal development? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. For you to succeed in your career you must be willing to develop personally under a MENTOR as a Protégé. What Are The The Five Thing Things ngs That Motivate You You in Your Current Current Job? 1................................................................................ .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 2................................................................................ .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 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A few years ago I was watching a motivational talk by world renowned motivational speaker Zig Ziglar. He was narrating a story of a lady who went to him after one of his talks and complained about her job, her boss, the system and the work colleagues she was working with. He listened to her and told her that in fact he had news for her that she was going to be fired. Her face turned red, “why would they fire me? I’m a hard worker.” She responded. Then he told her that if she continued with complaining she would definitely get fired. You might be in the same boat right now where when it’s Monday morning you get sick, headaches from nowhere, you complain about 31 your job, the salary, your boss, the union, the medical aid, the pension, the allowances and even your desk and computer you are currently using. Here is some solution for you, well Zig asked the lady to do this excise which I want you to do right now. Write down Ten things you love about your current job and every morning read your answers answers loudly and stick them them in front of your desk where you can see them. 1................................................................................ .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 2................................................................................ .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 3................................................................................ .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 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Everyday develop this habit to write 10 things you are grateful for and your life will never be the same. What Is A Goal Setting? Setting? Goal setting in broad terms is the process of deciding on something you want, planning how to get it, and then working towards the objective. Goal setting is not wishing or dreaming. It is something that is progressively worked towards. Goal setting is a process, it is not something that decided on a whim. An example is when you want to go on a summer holiday: You decide where you want to go to. You make the reservations. You get the car ready. And then the day arrives. Car packed, you depart on your journey, and keep going, until... You arrive at your destination - and enjoy! How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *2* HOW TO PREPARE FOR AN INTERVIEW 35 Choose a niche that you are passionate about. In your journey to your greatness know: • Revelation of calling (Passions) • Clarity of purpose (Dreams) • Paradigm shift of beliefs (Faith) • Knowledge of tools (Best Biz Practices) • Nurturing of relationships (Social Networking) • Invested community of peers (Support) • Progression of self (Personal Development) How To Get Motivated At A Workplace believe that where ever there is a problem, it is a sign that there a job and a business opportunity is created. You might be in a situation where you want to change careers or maybe you have lost your job and you are trying for find a new job. I An interview is the first step needed for any prospective employee of any organisation and it is also the first test for your sales pitch and marketing practical. In an interview that is where you sell yourself to convince the employer that you are the best candidate suitable for the job. Many times people fail to secure jobs because of lack of knowledge on how interviews are conducted and not being prepared for one. This book will help you prepare for your next interview, be it within the organisation you are currently working in or an external job opportunity you are interested in. Employers sometimes do not look at your qualification but how best you are able to convince them that you are able to do the job. Tips on How to Prepare For An Interview 37 1. Study the job specification and do a rehearsal at home before the interview. 2. Study the company where you have been called for an interview. Go on their website and find out when it was established, the directors and what it is involved in or the services it produces. 3. Your interview should statements from you. include four a. “I have thoroughly studied your company and I’m excited to be part of your vision and goals.” b. “ You will never need to repeat any instructions given to me” c. “I agreeable and willing to work in any environment I’m assigned and willing to relocate to any branch in your organisation.” d. “I’m very easy to correct and willing to be a Protégé in any mentoring program the organisation has in place.” 4. Get direction for the Location of the venue for the interview a day in advance and study the maps. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace 5. Start off early so that you are not late for the interview and to give yourself time to locate the place. Arrive 15 minutes or more before the interview. 6. Dress professionally or smartly, the first impression you make on the employer makes a big difference. Make sure you take a bath, put on some roll on and some nice perfume. Remember to brush your teeth and carry some sweets or gum to make your breath nice before the interview. Most qualified people have lost jobs because of the smell of their mouth as they speak of even just the smell of intoxicating sweat. 7. Study your Curriculum Vitae so that you know what is there and answer questions with confidence. 8. Know the interviewers name, if you do not know the name call prior to the interview. 9. Switch off your cell phone when you are in the interviewing room. 10. Look in the eyes of the interview and sit comfortably. If is a panel of six, interviewers, please turn and look at the 39 interviewer asking question and look at them when answering the question. 11. Stay calm and listen to the entire question before you answer. A job interview give you a chance to shine, what you say and what you do is either going to move you to the nest round of consideration for your employment or knock you off of the contention. 12. Don’t be in a hurry to answer the questions, listen carefully, understand and then answer with a clear tone of voice. 13. When you don’t understand the question or you are in doubt, ask the interviewer to repeat the question. 14. Don’t appear too desperate for the money deliberately lease the subject of the salary until the interviewer raise it up. 15. Follow up with a thank you note, reiterating your interest in the position. 16. Be prepared for a telephone interview on a moment’s notice. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace 17. Some interviewers may suggest that you are interviewed over breakfast or dinner. This provides the interviewer a chance to check your communication and interpersonal skills as well as your table manners. The Following Are Are Few Ideas That May Help Help You Start Enjoying Your Work A Little More When You Secure One. One. 1. Focus On Relationships. Relationships Most businesses have a product or service that they are selling. The temptation is to concentrate on only the financial side of the business and overlook the people aspect of your work. Don’t get me wrong: returning a profit or being a good steward of your resources is critical for long-term success, but it is not the total picture. Remember that your customers and co-workers are people with their own issues and needs. 2. Serve Others. Others Remember that the highest calling is to serve others. This could be a person who reports to you in the organization, a client, or a team member with whom you share responsibility for accomplishing a task. Life is not all about you! 41 3. Have Fun! Search for the positive aspects of your job. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Do your best with the abilities you have been given, but work is not the ultimate reason why we are here on this earth. 4. Manage Your Your Time Wisely. Wisely A large portion of the stress associated with work comes when we get behind on our projects and have to work extended hours to meet a deadline. Get a jump on your assignments and allow for the unexpected. Tips When You Secure A Job 1. Have Self discipline. 2. Tithe 10% of your Income. 3. Save 10% of the remaining 90% of your Income. 4. Make a Money and Time Budget every month. 5. Learn how to stay out and get out of debt. 6. Add or complete your education. 7. Be happy. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *3* POWER OF THE TONGUE 43 Become an expert. According to Buckingham, there are four clear signs of a strength: 1. Success—This is effectiveness in the activity Success you are doing. 2. Instincts—Find those things that you Instincts instinctively look forward to, and capitalize on them. 3. Growth—You’re growing when you can Growth concentrate on an activity, and time just flies by. 4. Needs—Some activities might make you tired, Needs but they fulfill you. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Power Of The Tongue Y ou are like a magnet and you have the power to attract positive things and people or repel negative things and people in your life by the words you speak. A magnet has what is called a magnetic field around it and it attracts to itself metal objects within the magnetic field. Your attitude towards your work colleagues can either attract then to you or repel them from you by the words you speak. Life and death are in the power of your tongue, what you say is what you get and what you are is what you say. Many relationships, marriages careers and friendships have been destroyed because of the power of a negative tongue. Some People are so wicked that they can twist information and get someone fired from a job. There are people that just attract negative things to happen. In the work place you find people that are so negative to a large extent that if they went in a dark room they can even develop into a negative photo. Office Gossipers attract people that also have a gossiping habit and in most cases gossipers are a source of office rumours, confusion, division, strife, stress, depression and loss of interest in a job one once loved so much. 45 Gossipers in work places are usually boot lickers, who watch like a gate keeper all the activities of other work colleagues and later report their twisted obsavertion to their bosses. There are a lot of fake smiles and ivory teeth in the workplace, trust no man, just do your job with excellence and diligence. Gossipers are very unproductive people; they spend time on the phone reporting others and back stabbing others. They spend time watching what other work colleagues are doing, what others are wearing, condemn other people’s walking style and when they hear people talking they come closer so that they can hear what is being said. In the end they wonder why promotion takes forever to come to them. They develop a negative attitude and also can pollute the workplace atmosphere with spoken words of rumours that brings bitterness and unproductively. As a boss be careful for such people because they can even go to the Managing Director and also inform him of the things they see wrong in you as a departmental boss. Gossipers in the workplace have a habit of befriending everyone in the office including all bosses and want to be seen as good doers. In How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Most cases they want to be in the fore front of arranging and event taking place in the office such as birthdays, casual day, funerals with a motive that they be noticed by the bosses and some pretend to know all the work that everyone does in the department they are in. I once worked with one lady who was very good, doing good things, a wicked nasty Gossiper and private eye or office FBI for the boss. She was a hyena and boot licker in a sheep skin. Whenever new people joined the department, she would offer to train them and then report to the boss that the person was a poor learner. She was a friend to every boss and spent most of her work time on doors of bosses and in their offices reporting others and sweet talking them with an ulterior motive for promotion. I’m sure you are family with such kind of people, stay away from them and never tell them anything about your personal life and your goals. Solution 1. Don’t be in the company of office gossipers, avoid them at all cost and don’t engage yourself in discussions that don’t build your career. 47 2. Choose your work relationships wisely. If you want to be wise, be in company with the wise. People that can help you develop your career. 3. Rebuke those that speak negatively about other workmates. 4. Be alert and do the best you can and do not be a listener to gossip. 5. Focus on your career goals and only speak positive things about your goals. 6. Be a reconciler not a gossiper. 7. Love all your workmates and speak good words to people. 8. Pray and love for your enemies. 9. Decide to be better and not bitter. 10. Be a listener to progress and personal development programs in your career. 11. Attend seminar and workshops develop your career and skills. that How To Get Motivated At A Workplace 12. Stop being critical and negative about people, but do something good to help others be better. 13. Stop being superstitious in the workplace and renew your mind. 14. Start being thankful and be grateful for what you are assigned to do. They are people praying day and night just to have the job you have. 15. Stop being moody, as you spoils and pollutes the workplace environment emotionally with negativity. 16. Stop being manipulative with your secretive agenda, develop pure motives towards your career. 17. Approach and talk to your boss in person when you are not happy with something unlike just complaining about it to your fellow work colleagues. 18. Take action and move towards improving on your weaknesses. 19. Stop being jealousy, racist, nasty and descrimatory and see every one as the 49 perfect creation of God who are working with you to help you accomplish your assignment in that organisation. 20. Do despise those who are promoted and doing better in life. Work hard and complete your assignment on time to activate promotion. 21. Identify your gifts and talents and use them to better your career. In fact this will help you choose an area of study that you can pursue. If you are good with computers, pursue an IT course. Doing what you love will make you happy, productive and fulfilled. 22. Write down your career goals and read them three times a day and declare that they will be fulfilled and come to pass. 23. Stop blaming everyone for the problems you have, but focus on being a problem solver. The reason you are employed by your boss is because he or she saw that you have the potential to solve problems in your current position. The reward for solving problems in your workplace is your salary given to you at the end of the month. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace 24. You are a business person and a good sales person, you sell your labour and skills in exchange for your salary and make sure you deliver and be committed to your work. 25. Work towards improving your work ratings, by doing your work on time, helping others in your team who fail to finish their assignment deadlines, be on time for work and leave at the official time you signed in your employment contract. Promotion will come when you are highly rated in your job performance. 26. Develop a good habit which is an action or behaviour that you do over and over again. Anything you do twice becomes easier like always arriving for work on time and leaving at the contracted time. Experts believe that when you do a specific thing repeatedly for 21 days consecutively, it will become a life time habit. 27. Be a disciplined employee. Discipline is 28. Be proactive and don’t just wait for instructions to do things that are right. 51 29. Three things you must do to create a massive paradigm shift. 1. Imagine seeing things in a positive light. 2. Banish negative thoughts. 3. Just do this over and over again. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *4* HOW TO PLEASE YOUR BOSS 53 Start developing yourself in your career and deliver with massive value. Employees need four things that that can only come through competent, capable leaders: 1. Hope – “Things are tough but we will get through this.” 2. Direction – “Here’s where we are going… this is our compass heading.” 3. A Plan for Moving Forward – We need to know what to do – how to behave – who does what. 4. Trusted Leaders – Leaders with the character, competence and concern needed to coordinate the effort and encourage the rest of us. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Excellence M ost companies only hire people they feel that have a high level of excellence. Some companies may hire those: - Available immediately. immediately. Maybe between certain ages. ages. With a lower salary expectation. Very skilled. With many years of experience in a specific field. Organisations that hire people with excellence have the following expectations from their employees: - They believe excellence permit the qualified to perform effectively. They believe investing in excellence is investing in future profits. They believe excellence in service delivery and all their products and packaging build the company’s reputation. 55 Tips On How To Please Your Boss In Any Organisation It is quiet sad that some employees think that the only way to please their boss is by being a spy in the workplace and report every activity their colleagues are doing. A good boss does not entertain such people but uses wisdom and professional ethic to monitor and see that all workers are performing their duties effectively. Every employee is hired to solve a problem and there are certain good professional ethical ways in which one can follow in order to please his or her boss and get the rewards that every one craves for, promotion and a salary increase. 1. Be ready to ask questions where you are not clear in your assignment. 2. Be interested to be your boss’s Protégé and also any other mentorship programs in the organisation. 3. Show your boss that you are proactive by putting in some over time in your assignment even if you are not paid but are able to meet your deadlines. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace 4. When you see that you are lacking a specific skill, say in a computer program such as Excel for spread sheets, ask your boss to send you for training. 5. Always show interest in learning new things and also be available to help other workers and be able to work in all sectors of your department in case one employee is sick. 6. Be proactive and know what your boss wants. 7. Be attentive to detail and pursue all additional information needed for completion of your assignment. 8. Establish clearly the expected completion dates. 9. Be focus 100% on your assignment and clarify the priority of the instructions. 10. Identify your aggressively. blockers quickly and 11. Report to your boss those who make your work difficult. 57 12. Present progress reports cheerfully until you can present a final complete one. 13. Obey all instructions from your boss and get clarity where you are not clear. 14. Be punctual and reliable to get credibility and trustworthiness. 15. When you have a problem or ill, phone in early in the morning and leave a message for your boss. 16. Be a team player that creates energy and synergy. 17. Develop a right Attitude. Attitude Your attitude towards, other work colleagues, your work and your boss can either put food on your table or remove food on your table. A Negative attitude towards your job will make you not complete your tasks, you will stay away from work and start giving excuses, complain, become lazy and find someone to blame. A positive attitude towards your job will propel you to be a goal getter and finish your tasks on time and even help other. A positive attitude will make you boss promote you. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace 18. Read biographies of champions and the secret of their success is always hidden in something they do daily. Ten Steps To Job Success With Your New or Current Employer 1. Dress Appropriately. Appropriately. Lasting impressions are formed in those first few weeks, so pay special attention to your grooming. Be clean, neat and dress according to the company's explicit or implicit dress code. 2. Arrive Early and Work a Full Day. Day. Show up for work a few minutes early, and don't rush out at the end of the day. Consistently demonstrate that you are going to give them their money's worth in terms of your presence and participation in the organization. 3. Communicate In a Positive, Positive, Energetic and Enthusiastic Manner. Manner. You will be most successful when you are characterized by being pleasant, optimistic and happy to be in your position. Leave your problems at home; don't complain or bring other negative emotions with you to work. 59 4. Learn and Use People's Names. Names. Before you begin your new job, review the names and job titles of people you have already met. On your first day, greet them by name. Make it a priority to meet and learn the names of your coworkers and people whom you encounter. 5. Become a Student of The Organization. Organization. Make a file for notes on key people, contact information, policies & procedures that are important for your position, as well as random pieces of information that come your way that you think will be helpful to you in doing a good job. In addition, seek to acquire information about the company (newsletters, articles, annual reports, and other resources) that tell you more about what the organization is doing and where it is heading. 6. Take Initiative Organization. To To Serve Within The In addition to doing well at your assigned responsibilities, look for opportunities to be of service in other ways. It may be as easy as signing up to bring a dessert for an office party, or doing something that will require more effort such as volunteering to do a task others have avoided. (In the case of the latter, always check How To Get Motivated At A Workplace with your boss to make sure that he or she is supportive of your doing the new task, and that it won't compromise your productivity in your primary responsibilities.) 7. Check In With Your Your Boss Regularly. Regularly. In the first week, check in for a few minutes each day or two with your boss. (Depending on the culture of your company, these might be scheduled meetings or informal conversations.) This is a time for you to ask questions, and get your boss' feedback on what you have been doing. These meetings give you critical information about your performance early on. You can find out if you are performing according to expectations, or if there are any changes your boss would like to see you make in what you are doing or how you are doing it. (Most employees do not initiate getting this type of feedback, so you will stand out by soliciting information on how to improve your performance.) In the first month or two, check in at least weekly for a few minutes to make sure you understand his or her priorities for your tasks and performance as well as to ask any questions that you may have. After this, checking in every couple of months will help you know how you are doing and whether you should make any adjustments in your work. 61 8. Study Your Boss. Boss. Get to know his or her preferences and personality. For example, does he like to make small talk before diving into a business discussion, or consider it a waste of time and prefer getting right to the point? If you tailor your interactions to his or her preferred communication and work style, you will be viewed more positively. 9. Get to Know The Organization Well Before Offering Suggestions For Major Changes. Changes. Proceed cautiously when you see things that you think should be done differently. Before voicing your opinion, ask questions and listen carefully. Find out why something's been done in a particular way, or why something has not yet happened. You want to avoid offending or disrespecting someone, or otherwise inadvertently stepping in some landmine of company politics. 10. Be An An Asset To The Entire Team. Team. Show appreciation for those who help you induct into organization; be trustworthy by not violating confidences, gossiping or badmouthing anyone; look to help others regularly; praise others and share credit; make your boss look good; speak How To Get Motivated At A Workplace well (or don't speak at all) about department and/or company to outsiders. your Five Keys To Advance Your Career Do you like what you do, but feel stuck in your current position? .................................................................................. If you are serious about your professional growth and development it may be time to think about moving up and getting ahead. Here are 5 quick tips on advancing your career if you are not sure what to focus on next. 1. Communic Communicate nicate With With Intent If your employer is unaware of your desire for advancement, you are staying stuck! Make an appointment with your boss, where you can personally connect and communicate your intentions with confidence and poise. Emails should only be used to schedule the discussion. Be respectful, specific and succinct. Listen to the feedback with an open mind and take care to understand the skill, competency, Experience and performance requirements. 63 2. Take Care of Your Relationships Relationships – Regardless of how good you are at doing your job, you really need to get along with others in the workplace. This means taking extra care that you demonstrate the necessary people skills to gain respect of your supervisors, peers, subordinates and clients. It is important to remain authentic, but a friendly, positive and supportive attitude goes a long way! 3.. Keep Refreshing Your Knowledge and Skills Skills – It is important to keep on learning. You need to stay abreast of news and new trends in your industry. Identify appropriate work- and industry related publications and set aside time on a weekly basis to read a few articles. Seek opportunities to attend appropriate courses, conferences or seminars. This may require a personal investment as well if it can contribute to getting the right skills and knowledge. 4.. Get a Mentor and/or a Coach Establish relationships with appropriate mentors both inside and outside your organisation. A mentor is someone who you can look up to for guidance and advice. If your mentor has How To Get Motivated At A Workplace influence higher up in the organisation, this will most likely be to your benefit. In addition to a mentor, you may further identify the need to get an accountability partner who can facilitate and support you in achieving your personal development agenda – in this case you may benefit from a formal coaching relationship. A Coach is someone who will develop your gift and talents. 5. Work On On Your Reputation You need to be known for actively modelling the behaviours that your organisation value. In most organisations it really helps to have a reputation of reliability, professionalism, cooperation, trustworthiness and respect for others. Career and professional advancement will not happen by accident – it requires your decisive and deliberate action! Take up the challenge to get clarity on your Professional Growth for the next year: Take one clean page and set aside a few quiet minutes to write down answers to the following: 1. What is my professional passion and purpose? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 65 .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 2. What do I want to be, do and have in my professional life and career in the next year? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 3. What are my top 3 SMART (S Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound) goals to achieve my professional vision? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 4. What are my action steps in the next week and month to achieve each of these goals? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Make this worksheet visible - place it where you can view it daily to remind you of your professional vision and goals! How To Get Motivated At A Workplace The following following Is A List List Of Five Key Points To Remember Remember To Help You Master The Art Of SelfSelf-Management. Be Consistent. Part of managing oneself is the ability to be stable. The values you hold dear should always be transparent. Always changing can not only cause others to question your beliefs, but it can also cause you to become confused about what you truly believe. Stick To To The Plan. Plan. If you are scheduled to complete a particular task, do it. Don’t just do it, but make sure it is done in a timely manner. It is easy to feel out of control when you disregard the plan you are to follow. Be Accountable. Accountable. There are times when things don’t work out as you plan, but you have to be able to admit that and then use your flexibility to get things back on track. The ideal result is that you easily bounce back and complete the task, but even during those times when this is not the case, you are expected to adjust. Educate Yourself. Yourself. We live in an ever-changing world and you want to be able to keep up with it. Don’t let change pass you by, embrace it. Be an 67 avid reader. Talk and listen to mentors and peers. They may know something that could help you along your journey. Stay Physically Fit. Fit. Many people don’t think of staying fit when they talk about selfmanagement, but it is a very important part of being able to practice the four preceding points. Exercising your body is just as crucial to selfmanagement as exercising your mind. A body that is not well Finally, if you are working in a job and want promotion, the surest way to get it is by giving more. Employers look favourably on employees who are innovative and give more than what is expected of them. An example of this sort of behaviour is when you have mastered a job; look for new tasks to do. Also, look for better and more efficient ways to do things. Ask yourself and answer the following questions: 1. Do I love what I do? 2. Do I have the talents to succeed at it? 3. Does what I’m doing offer me the potential to achieve my social and economic goals? How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *5* STRATEGIC PLANNING 69 Sit back Relax and wait. Here Are Four Four Steps To To Turn Your Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping Stepping Stones: 1. What is currently your single biggest challenge or problem? 2. Write down three positive things relative to this challenge. 3. Considering the three positive points you wrote down, restate your challenge as an opportunity you would want to embrace. 4. Start using this new description to think about your opportunity! How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Why Create A Personal Strategic Plan? "A quality life is an example of what can be accomplished when thoughtful attention, careful planning, and purposeful action come together without compromise." A well-defined plan, properly executed, is your meal ticket to success. You significantly increase the odds of success in any endeavour if you know who you are, what you want, where you are going, how you will get there, and what you will do once you arrive. Consider these questions: What makes it possible for a casino to turn a profit? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do the odds favour the house or the gambler? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 71 .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Even avid gamblers recognize that the odds always favour the house. Most of the people pulling levers, shooting dice, and playing cards lose most of the time. It's a safe bet that, in the view of casino managers, you are going to leave some of your earnings in their hands when you leave. It may be something of an exaggeration, but you could say that when you walk into any casino, you sport a big "L" for LOSER on your forehead. Now matter how sexy it appears, a casino is a competitively hostile environment, with the odds consistently favouring the house. This ensures that they win the majority of the time... and you lose. The same can be said for your life. Try to achieve anything without a well-defined plan (even with a commitment to achieve) and you go in with a big "L" on your forehead. The competitive odds are always in favour of the prepared, the focused, and the committed; they will outperform, out-hustle, and outplay you. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Though it may seem like common sense, this point is often overlooked: your life will not go according to plan if you do not have a plan. Far too many people and organizations are unprepared, undisciplined, and unfocused. And because they disrespect planning and lack preparation, discipline, and focus, they will repeat yesterday's mediocre performance today, tomorrow and the next day. This self-imposed purgatory must be stopped, as the consequences of poor planning are utterly ruthless. Why not create history rather than repeat it? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Why not commit to having the best year of your life? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Why not create a plan that allows you to experience exceptional growth? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 73 .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Get serious about your life and career; tilt the odds in your favour for a change. This is all possible through the discipline of personal strategic planning. The accommodation of success is preceded by long negotiation, made possible by intensive preparation. In addition to saving you 10 to 1 in execution, the creation of a personal strategic plan offers a host of other tasty benefits as well. Among The Most Important: Important: • Planning Promotes Promotes Focus. Planning is a disciplined thought process that produces fundamental decisions and actions that shape who you are, where you are going, what you do, and how, when, when and why you do it. All of this is done with focus on the future. • Planning Coordinates Coordinates Efforts. Planning allows you to engage in best practices. Being best briefed and best prepared with the best information allows you to create the best strategy. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace • Planning Provides Standards. Planning helps you size up your performance and measure your progress. Evaluating what you expect is more than a progress check; it's also quality control. • Planning Prepares the Planner. Planner It takes a good head to determine what you're going to do and why. And it takes a strong stomach to stick with decisions when you hit the inevitable bumps in the road. Planning teaches you to cultivate these qualities, so you have a better chance of succeeding. • Planning Reveals Roadblocks. Roadblocks Planning provides a reality check on the good, the bad, and the ugly of achieving a particular goal. To be forewarned is to be forearmed, as one way to ensure victory is to be prepared for challenges and obstacles, and you do that through planning. • Planning Stimulates Thinking. Planning provides the stimulation you need to avoid dead ends and blind alleys. 75 Comprehensive due diligence serves as a catalyst for new insights and ideas. • Planning Fuels Confidence. Planning helps you to reduce the paralyzing effect of fear. Planning is the safety net for your future. Lack of it is like walking a tightrope with a blindfold on and no net below. • Planning Offers an Exit Plan. Planning gives you a sneak peek of the price you must pay for success so you can determine if it's worth the risk. It serves as an early warning system, allowing you to bow out gracefully rather than be thrown out later on. The benefits of personal strategic planning sound almost too good to be true, but this time, the hype is legitimate. Effective planning allows you to do things better, faster, and definitely cheaper. Perfect the use of planning and you will win many battles by default. Planning means doing your homework... running twice as fast. A lawyer works out the opposition's legal arguments. An entrepreneur puts himself in the shoes of a contractual partner. The successful negotiator is How To Get Motivated At A Workplace the confident negotiator, bolstered by advance knowledge and planning. As you practice and master planning, it will become second nature. In every aspect of your professional and personal lives, the discipline of personal strategic planning will help you to think critically, examine your options, and devise a detailed action plan that will enable you to achieve more in the next year than you have in the past ten years combined. Strategic Life Plan Your life plan considers all of the different areas in your life that are important to you. To maintain a healthy balance, you should determine your priorities and then focus on those that are most important to you. This plan is designed to help you establish and achieve your life goals. Step 1: Establish Your Priorities List the areas in your life that are very important to you. These areas may include your family, 77 career, relationships, health, financial security, community service, spiritual, and others. Once these areas are identified, prioritizes from most important to least important. Step 2: Establish Your Goals For each of your priorities identified in Step 1 above, think about where you want to be in that area of your life in the next two years, the next five years, and at the end of your life Step 3: Develop Your Action Plan The writing of a detailed plan is essential to your success. It is the process you set in place to get you where you want to be and help you accomplish your goals. It must be detailed with complete action steps and deadlines. Without specific steps and dates, your chances of implementing your strategic life plan are reduced How To Get Motivated At A Workplace significantly. Actually, without these - all you have is a wish list - not a plan. Consider using the SMART Model: S - Specific M - Measurable A - Attainable R - Realistic and within a specific T - Timeframe. You will need to identify detailed steps for each one of the “Goals” you wrote in Step 2 above. You will only start your plan here, but it must end up as complete as possible. What gets planned – gets done! It needs to become a part of the substance of your daily schedule, and thus, your life (so you can make your life happen.) Keep in mind that although writing the plan is critically important, no part of it is written in stone - not your purpose, or any of the goals or steps. Just as in a strategic plan in business or organizations, things will change. So it is also in your personal strategic plan: life intervenes from time to time, requiring changes in timing, steps, and resources. Sometimes you might just 79 simply change your mind about a particular goal, but to get anywhere, you must start somewhere. Set Defined Goals Your Career Goals will relate to what you want to do with your job or business. Financial Goals Goals are how much you want to earn, the level of assets you want to own, when you want to retire and how much money you will have then, etc. Physical Goals Goals are those areas you want to improve you physical appearance or condition. Mental Goals Goals covers the gaining of knowledge, changing attitudes, self improvement and cultural. Family and Social Goals Goals may include education of the family, your role in the family or relationships with others, expansion of your circle of friends, etc. Goal + Deadline = Success. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *6* FINANCIAL THOUGHTS Become an expert who is paid handsomely. 81 How To Set Financial Goals In 7 Easy Steps! 1. Make sure the goal you are working for is something you really want, not just something that sounds good. 2. A goal can not contradict any of your other goals. 3. Develop goals in the 6 areas of life: Family and Home Financial and Career Spiritual and Ethical Physical and Health Social and Cultural Mental and Educational 4. Write your goal in the positive instead of the negative. 5. Write your goal out in complete detail. 6. By all means, make sure your goal is high enough. 7. This is the most important, write down your goals. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace W hat Is The Secret To Financial Success? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Well... first of all, the question you have to ask yourself is - "Why are you not rich yet?" .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. What has prevented you from getting the wealth you deserve? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. When I ask this question to my clients in my wealth program, I usually get answers like these: • • • • I was born in a poor family. I need to support my family. I am too young/old. I’m not smart enough. 83 • • • • • • I have no opportunities. I lack the qualifications. I have an unsupportive spouse. I have no luck. The economy has been down. etc, etc, etc... Do any of these sound familiar to you? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Now the trouble with all these answers is that you're blaming someone or something else for the financial situation you're in right now and that you've been a "victim" of circumstance. 7 Things Money Can’t Can’t Buy 1. Money can buy a house but not a home. 2. Money can buy books but cannot buy the mind. 3. Money can buy a bed but cannot buy sleep. 4. Money can buy a food but not appetite. 5. Money can buy companions but not friends. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace 6. Money can buy cosmetics but not beauty. 7. Money can buy medicine but not health. Every employee’s dream is to live in supernatural abundance and the secret is in knowing certain laws that can help you such as : The Law of Forgiveness Forgiveness… eness This contains a mental trick that transforms debt into abundance— nearly overnight. It’s almost like turning water into wine. Or the incredible Law of Increase, Increase where you’ll discover the shortest route to tap into higher consciousness and pinpoint accurate answers for all your most pressing questions. Is your chequebook on life support? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Are you struggling financially and scrape through with barely enough for your normal bills and debts? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 85 .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Then you must study the Law of Increase. Increase Upward Bound Thinking:: Is the quickest, easiest way to unleash a positive whirlwind that will rapidly attract a flurry of positive coincidences. (The Law of Thinking). To attract larger things, you must increase your capacity.. Here’s how. (Law Law of Compensation) Compensation The Law of Attraction helps you to exponentially amplify your odds in successfully attracting the things you want, you need to be in a highly specific mental state. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *7* WHY PEOPLE NEVER GET RICH 87 Whether it's a full time mom, a professional athlete at the top of their game, or the CEO of a multinational corporation, those who are truly living an extraordinary life—life on their terms—are those who know the answers to three things: 1. What do you really want? 2. What's preventing you from having it? 3. How do you change your life now? How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Why People Never Get Rich! Y ou see, most people go through life with the victim’s mindset and this prevents them from ever changing their financial situation! When they don’t get the results they want, victims tend to give themselves lots of excuses like ‘I’m just unlucky’, ‘ I have no experience’, ‘I’m too old to earn more’, ‘I’m too young to be rich’, ‘I have no capital’, ‘I was born poor’ or ‘I’m not a creative person’ The reason all these are lousy excuses is because we know that there are many examples of people who have created wealth for themselves, despite all these perceived disadvantages. Victims also tend to blame everyone except themselves. When you ask victims why they are not rich yet they will say something like, ‘my boss won’t give me a raise’, ‘I don’t get any opportunities’, ‘my big family prevents me from saving money’, ‘the stock market caused me to lose everything’. And instead of finding a way to improve and change, victims spend their time complaining but don’t do anything about it. The trouble is that when you give yourself excuses, blame others and whine, it means that someone else or something else is controlling 89 your life and your (lack of) wealth. Since you believe that it is not your fault, then you are powerless to change it. If you have a victim’s mindset and hold doggedly onto the belief that external forces are controlling your wealth, then any wealth strategies you learn will be of no use! The moment you acknowledge that you create your own fortune (or lack of it), it means that you have given yourself the power to start becoming rich right now. And when you discover the strategies of wealth creation, you will find that you can make money at any age, with any background, with little or no money and in any economy! So once you realize that YOU are in control of your own financial destiny, the next thing you need to discover are... The Strategies To Wealth Creation! Is there a formula for wealth creation? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do all self-made millionaires take the same steps to amass their fortunes? How To Get Motivated At A Workplace .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. If we were to do an in-depth study of how selfmade millionaires think and act, would we find some common clues that we can learn from? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. The answer is Yes! These are seven essential steps each one representing a wealth creating skill that all selfmade millionaires possess and practice... 91 Tips On On How To Be Successful 1. Be persistent in whatever you do and towards your dream. Persistence is the ability to keep on trying with the knowledge that eventually, you have to succeed. 2. Set defined goals. Set big goals that are beyond any human understanding. 3. Have a strong burning desire to succeed. 4. You can succeed if you think you can. 5. Rise up and win by learning from defeat and past failures. 6. Visualise yourself as having already achieved your dream and goals. 7. Learn to sacrifice your social activities in order to give attention and study towards your dream. Sacrifice is an investment for your future success. 8. Concentrate on one thing at a time and give it your best shot. 9. In whatever you do give in more than 100% and you shall not fail but succeed. 10. Have supportive people around your social and career circle. 11. Believe in yourself that all things you want in life are possible. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *8* HABITS OF A MILLIONAIRE 93 DAILY Use your gifts AND talents to build your empire How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Habit of a Millionaire H abit 1: Always Exceed Expectation Self made millionaires always exceed expectations. There are three kinds of people at work: Those who meet expectation, those who exceed expectation and those who do just what they are told to do. People who exceed expectations add value to any organization wherever they work. Habit 2: Be Proactive Don’t just sit and watch things happening – Be the change you want to see! Asian currency crisis of Singapore in 1997 hit many companies every hard. However, CEO Ron Sim of Osim International (a company that develops luxury massage chairs) took the proactive action and entered new markets like Hong Kong and Taiwan. Result: Profits of Osim increased! 95 Habit 3: Take 100% Responsibility Don’t blame your Parents, Government, climate, society, wife/husband, education or anyone else please. People who make millions take 100% ownership of their life. Habit 4: Delayed Gratification What if you have a goose which gives a golden egg each day? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Will you be happy on an egg a day or will you try to open the stomach of goose to get all golden eggs at once? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. As a result, there won’t be any egg at all.! There are lots of years invested by people before they get an ‘overnight’ success. Invest before you get returns. Habit 5: Love What You Do How To Get Motivated At A Workplace If you don’t find the job you love then love the job you find! If you love what you are doing, you don’t have to work another day in your life. If a person is obsessed with the work he or she is doing, results are far superior than the person who is just doing the work for sake of doing it. Habit 6: Act With Integrity “What was the key factor leading to your wealth”? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. When this question was asked by Thomas Stanley, majority of 733 multi-millionaires responded ‘being honest with people’. Surprising point: his factor was way ahead of other factors like ‘making wise investments’, ‘working hard’ and ‘having a competitive spirit’. Habit 7: Be 100% Committed Wishing is not enough; a ‘burning disciplined eager desire’ is needed to achieve results. A person gets some thing when it becomes an absolute MUST. 97 Habit 8: Turn Failure Failure Into Success “My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I’m a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage, my life is a study of that” – Donald Trump, after turning around his $935 million debt into a $3.7 billion fortune. Remember the life story of Mr. Steve Jobs of Apple Computer? After learning that latest model of i-phone is short in the stores and there are some issues related to i-phone’s latest model, I wondered about the founder of Apple – Mr. Steve Jobs. Who is Mr. Jobs – a self-made billionaire? Another great example that never fails to inspire me about turning crushing failure into resounding success is the story of Steve Jobs, the founder and current CEO of Apple Computers. Steve co-founded Apple at the age of 21 in 1976. Within four years, the company was listed on the stock exchange and Steve was worth US$217 million at the age of 25. As Apple continued its How To Get Motivated At A Workplace phenomenal growth, it was decided that professional management had to be hired to run the huge organization. So in 1983, Steve hired John Scully to be the CEO. However, within two years, the CEO and directors at Apple could not get along with Steve Jobs (he was known to be an erratic and emotional manager) and stripped him of all his duties, forcing him to resign from the very company he founded in failure and disgrace. To make things worse, Apple sued Steve for neglecting his duties. While those in the business world wrote him off, Steve who possessed the millionaire mindset, took it as a huge learning experience (millionaire habit and took the proactive action of starting a new and better company called NeXT computers. He believed that he could develop a range of hardware and software that would be even better than that at Apple. Did He He Succeed? Unfortunately, NeXT’s hardware division became a huge failure. Undaunted, he again took the feedback and went on to found Pixar Animation Studios, which became a huge success in creating the first breakthrough fully digitally animated movie 99 ‘Toy Story’. In the meantime, Apple Computer was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1995 after suffering from internal mismanagement and lack of new product innovation. The company was making losses of $800 million to $1 billion a year and its share price dropped from a high of $18 to $3.80. Believing that he could save Apple, Steve Jobs agreed to return as CEO for a nominal pay of $1 (he was doing it purely for the passion). When Steve took over, he fired all the unproductive executives and spearheaded the launch of revolutionary products like the iMac, iPod and iTunes. The revolutionary operating system (OS) he developed at NeXT was then evolved into the highly popular Mac OS X. As a result of these successful products, Apple turned its $1 billion loss into $1.3 billion in profits by 2005. Its share price rose from $3.80 to a high of $75! Looking back, Steve realized that if he never got fired from Apple, he would never have founded NeXT and Pixar Animation. If not for Pixar, he would not have become a pioneer in digital animation and if not for NeXT software he developed, Apple would never have the Mac OS X operating system that has made Apple a huge success today. It is for this reason that many millionaires believe that ‘everything happens for a reason’ and that ‘adversity is often opportunity in How To Get Motivated At A Workplace disguise’ provided you learn from your experiences and continue to take consistent action! Habit 9: Respect And Love Money! Take a pause and think: Do you think that money is evil? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do you think it is bad? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Rethink if you want to be a millionaire as all self made millionaire respect and love money! Five Secrets Of How You Can Become A Millionaire. Millionaire. 1. Set Your Sights On Where You’re You’re Going. Have A Vision. Vision. 101 Think big. And remember that everyone has to start at the beginning. Even Warren Buffet had to invest $25 before he could make $25 billion. Set lofty goals, and then begin taking small steps to reach them. 2. Educate Yourself. Yourself. Read books and magazines. If you don’t know how to do something, research the answer. I’m amazed how much of my financial success is attributable to simply reading personal finance books. Many of them say the same things. Once you’ve read enough of them, the advice begins to be burned on your brain. Remember: knowledge is power. 3. Passion Passion Pays Off. Off. Love what you do. When you’re passionate about your work, you care about the consequences. “According to research by Thomas J. Stanley, author of The Millionaire Mind, over 80 percent of millionaires say they never would have been successful if their vocation wasn’t something they cared about.” 4. Grow Your Your Money. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Pay your 10% Tithe first on every income you get and then another 10% pay yourself from the 90%. When you are living paychequepaycheque-toto-paycheque, paycheque it can be difficult to look beyond your immediate needs. But it’s precisely by doing this that you’ll have the best chance in life for escaping your circumstances. Squirrel away money for your retirement, or for other investments in cd rates, savings accounts or even money market accounts. 5. No Guts, No No Glory. Take risks. I’ve often heard that successful people are the biggest failures of all. They’ve failed many times. But they pick themselves back up and try again. Most people never try because they’re afraid of the possible downsides. Successful people don’t worry about the downside — they’re focused on the possible payoff. But the biggest secret of all is to stop spending. Every millionaire we researched, has one thing in common: Not a single one spends needlessly. In a survey that indicates 103 many wealthy people spend money “with a middle-class mindset”, clipping coupons and shopping at sales. The more I learn, the more I believe this to be the case. Millionaires may have earned their money through a combination of discipline and dedication, but it’s their frugal habits that keep them rich. May you be the Next Millionaire! How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *9* ESSENTIAL SKILLS OF A MILLIONAIRE 105 Never stop learning. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Essential Skills Of Millionaires Step 1: Adopt The The MillionMillion-Dollar Mindset M illionaires see learning experiences, where Mister Ordinary sees failure. The moment you adopt the beliefs and habits of a millionaire, your perception of the world will change completely and you will realize that there are money-making opportunities everywhere and everyday around you. Amazingly, these are opportunities that you were once quite blind to! Step 2: Set Clear Financial Goals Wealth never happens by chance. It always begins with a clear goal in mind. At one point of time in their life, millionaires always make a decision to become rich. However, whenever I ask 107 most people what their financial goals are, I often get a blank stare. This is a major reason why they will never achieve any level of wealth because they have no clue what it is. Unless you have a specific figure to focus on, you will never be able to develop a strategy to achieve it. Step 3: Create A Financial Plan Once you have set specific financial targets of how much you want to earn and how much money you want to accumulate, you can then develop an effective plan to achieve it. Goals by themselves are nothing but pipe dreams. Only when you create a plan, have you made your goal a possibility. The moment you start taking action on your plan, your dream becomes a reality. Step 4: Massively Increase Your Income After developing their financial plan, most people tend to become initially disheartened. They look at their plan and realize that with the amount they are earning and saving right now, it will be decades before they see any big money. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace It is therefore important that you learn how to accelerate and turbo-charge your financial plan by taking steps to massively increasing your income. Step 5: Manage Your Money & Reduce Expenses Many people think that by increasing their income, their wealth will automatically increase. Unfortunately, increasing income is only one side of the wealth equation. After all, there are people who earn $3,000 a month who are broke and there are those who earn $30,000 who are still broke. The reason is because when we don’t manage the money we earn, our expenses will always rise to our level of income, wiping out any surplus we have! Step 6: Grow Your Money at Millionaire Returns By increasing your income and reducing your expenses, you will find that you will be able to accumulate a surplus of funds that you can use to help you build your fortune. You need to do this because, no matter how hard you work and save, you will never be able to create phenomenal 109 wealth unless you learn how to put your money to work for you. Through the power of compounding, you will be able to take small sums of money and build it into huge returns over time. Step 7: Protect Your Fortune There is no use working hard to build your personal fortune only to see it all taken away from you. There are many people who have taken decades to build their fortune only to see it wiped out by an accident, unforeseen illness or through an unexpected lawsuit. Self-made millionaires engage professionals like insurance advisors, lawyers and accountants to help them build a financial fortress so their wealth is protected from potential creditors, plaintiffs looking to sue and the government who may take away a big chunk of your wealth through a whole range of taxes that you may not have even heard about. Habit 8: Turn Failure Into Into Success How To Get Motivated At A Workplace “My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I’m a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage, my life is a study of that” – Donald Trump, after turning around his $935 million debt into a $3.7 billion fortune. Habit 9: Respect and Love Love Money! Take a pause and think: Do you think that money is evil? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Do you think it is bad? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. Rethink if you want to be a millionaire as all self made millionaire respect and love money! 111 Tips On How To Be Happy 1) Be happy where you are right now. 2) Happiness, more than anything, it is a choice we make every day. 3) Happiness is understanding the things we can’t change yet and working on those we can. 4) Put a smile on your face. It changes how you think. 5) Whatever you get, accept it and deal with it. 6) Problems = Catalyst to take Action. 7) Learn from the elephants! 8) Put everything you have into whatever you are doing now. 9) Its not what you get. It’s what you become that matters. 10) No one else is going to make you happier. Work on yourself. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace *10* HOW YOU CAN EARN MONEY QUICKLY? 113 Package your advice and learn how to inform others. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace How Can You Earn Money Quickly? Quickly? 1. Find something you love, value and are good at or your gifted talent. 2. Learn To Sell something in line with your passion. Find something you love, value and are good at or your gifted talent. Do a market savvy and selling savvy to then package it into a Business Intellectual property (Books and Audio Materials). If You Want to Succeed in Anything, You Have to Learn How to Sell I go on to explain. Think about it. Isn’t it true that to achieve anything in life, you have to be good at selling. You have to be good at selling yourself, your ideas and the products/services of your company. For example, if you want to land a job in a top company, having a great resume and top grades is not enough. Ultimately, it is all about the interview! 115 What’s An Interview? An interview is a sales pitch. You have usually less than 20 minutes to sell yourself and your ideas to your employer. You have to convince the interviewer why YOU are the best choice compared to the many others who will be competing for the position. If you don’t have the ability to do so, the best written resume and all the years of experience will not get you the opportunity you have been looking for. The same thing goes if you want to climb up the corporate ladder. In the corporate world, it is not always the most loyal, most hardworking and the most deserving who get the promotions and the increments. Again, those who get promoted the fastest and get paid the highest are the ones who know how to sell their ideas and sell themselves to their bosses. They are able to convince their bosses that they deserve to be paid more and are the best people for the top job. I have seen so many hardworking and loyal people get passed up for promotions simply because they lacked the skill to stand up and sell themselves. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Am I saying that as long as you can sell and talk big, you can get away with almost anything.OF COURSE NOT! You have to be good at your work and deliver what you say you can deliver, If not, great selling will only get you temporary success and eventual, permanent failure. What I am saying is that you have to be able to do great work and offer great value to your customers. However, if you do not have the skills to sell what is good, then you will never get the results you want. If you want to succeed in business, you have to be great in sales as well. In fact, the boss of a company has got to be great at selling his vision to his employees, selling his company to investors and selling his products to customers. Whenever I ask people whether McDonald’s or Burger King has the best tasting burgers, I usually get the majority agreeing that Burger King has better tasting burgers. So, why is it that McDonald’s in 100 times more successful than Burger King? ....................................................................... ....................................................................... 117 ....................................................................... ....................................................................... The reason is because the founder and first CEO of McDonald’s (Ray Kroc) was a great salesman and the founder of Burger King was not. Before Ray Kroc created the McDonald’s franchise, he was a top salesperson, selling milkshake makers to restaurants all over the US. It is this sales culture that all McDonald’s employees are trained in that has made McDonald’s the most successful franchise in the world. Have you ever realized that whenever you order to cheeseburger from McDonald’s, they don’t reply by saying, ‘okay. That will be $x.’ Instead, they follow up with the question, ‘would you like to have a meal with that?’ Then comes the question, ‘Upsize? How about dessert? They artfully sell and sell until they maximize their profits and the customers gets the maximum value. It’s a win win. The same thing goes in politics. You don’t have to be the smartest, most experienced How To Get Motivated At A Workplace nor most intelligent person to become elected President of the United States. You have to be the country’s greatest salesperson! Barack Obama is not the most intelligent guy in the US with the highest credentials. They are millions of Americans who have superior IQs with multiple PhDs. He is certainly not the most experienced. His vice-president, Joe Biden and his contenders, John McCain and Hillary Clinton have decades more experience than him. So, why is Obama the President? ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... Again, it’s because he is the much better salesman! He was able to sell his dream to the American people and sell himself as the best person for the job. If you want to attract the man/woman of our dreams, don’t you have to be great at selling as well? ....................................................................... ....................................................................... 119 ....................................................................... ....................................................................... When you went out on dates, those were all sales pitches weren’t they? ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... If you succeeded in selling yourself as their life partner, then you closed the sale! Some people unfortunately never seem to be able to close the sale. Then there are those that close the sale and are asked for a refund later (this is my feeble attempt at humour). Why Most People Are Lousy At Selling? ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... I have to admit that in the past, I felt very uncomfortable with selling. I did not have a good impression of ‘salespeople’ and felt uneasy asking people to buy things and to How To Get Motivated At A Workplace hand over their money. I also felt ‘pai seh’ (embarrassed) telling people my strengths. I find this very common among fellow African. Our African upbringing has programmed us to feel uncomfortable with standing out and selling ourselves. When we are young, we are told not to show off and act smart. At the same time, the education system we goes through teaches us almost everything expect the skill of selling. In fact, I have found that the more academically educated that people get, the more self conscious they get, the more they fear rejection (and feel they have something to lose) and the less they are able to sell. Then, I came to realize that as long as I was uncomfortable with selling and could not sell well, I could never be successful and wealthy. I had brilliant ideas and a well written book (‘Qualities Of A Leader!’the first book I wrote on how to be a top Quality Leader). I also knew all the strategies of how to become a top Leader. However, as long as I could not stand in front of people and sell them my ideas and products well, nobody would ever be convinced to buy my book or sign up for my programmes. 121 I read of many brilliant academics/creators who developed fantastic ideas and products but never got the success they deserved, simply because they could not sell it well. For example, many people know of the world famous Anthony Robbins who has made millions by teaching millions of people to change their mindset and their lives using life changing techniques like NLP which Tony started with). However, do you know that Tony Robbins DID NOT invent NLP. Tony does not even have a degree (he was a high school dropout). NLP was actually invented by Dr. Richard Bandler, the true genius of human change technologies. So how come very few people have heard of Dr. Bandler and almost everyone knows Tony Robbins? ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... Again, it is because Tony Robbins is a master salesman who was able to convince millions to buy his program his ideas so well. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace To cite even another example, McDonald’s was a restaurant that was actually created by the McDonald’s brothers. The brothers were great cooks who developed the famous French fries and Big Mac. Yet, they never become rich or successful. They did not know how to sell their great idea to the world. It was Ray Kroc (45 year old salesmen) who saw the potential, bought the rights from the brothers and through his selling skills, turned this little restaurant in California into a billion dollar business with restaurants all over the world. You can have all the talent, all the knowledge, all the education. If you cannot sell it, you cannot make anything of it. Realizing this, I decided to master the skill of selling! Before that, I had to change the negative perceptions I had towards selling. Like I mentioned, I used to feel uncomfortable asking people to buy something and to pay money for it. Then, I came to realize that when you sell something that will truly add value and benefit a person, you are actually doing that person a favour. There is NOTHING to feel uncomfortable about. In fact, you should feel really proud. 123 I came to realize that when someone pays to attend my books and Live Your Dream program, the knowledge and skills they will attain will help them make 100 times that about, for the rest of their lives! By studying and mastering NLP techniques, reading sales books and attending many sales programmes, I honed my selling skills and used it to turn my ideas into dollars a year, business today with 26 best-selling books under my belt and published over 300 Books for other authors! 3. Learn How To Read Finances and How To Read Numbers And And How To Manage Cash Flow. If you can’t manage personal cash flow you cannot manage a business cash flow. 4. Talks Identify your Gifts and Talents -Know your Niche and Start running training, Seminars or Workshops and Charge for it. 5. Intellectual Property How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Use you niche wisely and Write a Book and produce Audio Materials and Sell. These basically should earn you royalties. 6. Design A Website Website: ebsite Where people can login and buy your Intellectual Properties which are books, CD, DVD and Mp3 Downloads. 7. Set Goals, Goals have a strategy and Take action. GOALS +STRATEGY + ACTION = SUCCESS When you set a go and never reach it don’t be discouraged, success is working towards your set goal. When you write your goals don’t just look at the once and forget, read your defined goals at least twice each day and be obsessed with your goals. 8. Create Value for your business. - Help other people reach their Goals. Help People Solve their Problems. 9. Time Planner 125 Ask yourself every hour, if you are spending, how much value are you creating? ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... ....................................................................... Here are some things that a goal goal can do: • • • • • Generally improve our lives. Gives us motivation towards work or tasks. Make us realize what we really want in life. Help us eliminate bad habits or traits. Gives us focus towards achievement. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Some Questions To Examine Where You Are In Life: How would you describe yourself? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. What are your natural abilities? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. 127 What are your educational qualifications? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. ....................................... ........................................... .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. What are your experiences? (That is, what have you done?) .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. What are your weaknesses? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace What are your dominant gifts, talents and abilities? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. What are your memorable achievements? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. What do people compliment you about the most? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. On what do you spend most of your money and time? 129 .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. What are you passionate about? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. What did you dream of becoming as a child? .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. *The End* How To Get Motivated At A Workplace About the Author Mobile: +27761285439 Email: [email protected] Web: www.elijahmiti.co.za Web: http://.elijahmiti.westarts.com Ministry Website: http://svmi.webstarts.com NGO: http://sidpa.webstarts.com http://whatmenwant.webstarts .com Dr. Elijah Miti was born in 1974. He began preaching after completing school in 1992 and did Banking, Financial Management, Property Management, Pastoral in Pretoria South Africa and Theology from a USA Bible College in 2009. He has a Doctorate in Business Management. He is an Independent Accredited Motivational Speaker, Six times Network Marketing Award winner, Eagles Award Winner for Motivational Speaking and founder of Sothern Internally Displaced Persons Answer (SIDPA). He is now a fulltime Missionary Trainer and travels the world preaching the Gospel, Book Writing and Publishing books. 131 FINAL THOUGHTS 1. Know and rearrange your priority/goals. 2. "Do what you love. Love what you do." Work, like anything else has two faces. You can enjoy it. Or you can be burdened by it. Happiness and contentment is not about what life provides for you. It is about how you utilize and react on what life offers. 3.”You can't change the course of the wind. But you can adjust the sail to reach your destination." More often than not we put the blame on others. We think that we did perfect and the problem is with the people around us. This may or may not be true. It is not all the time that we have nothing or little to do with the problem. 4. Go back to number one. Rearrange your priority. If you have already tried your best to suit with the surrounding but your efforts seem futile, it might be the time to look for another opportunity. If you think you can't gain anything from the company/organization you are working now, or it is not worth your time and talent then move on. We can only live life once so enjoy it! How To Get Motivated At A Workplace BRIEF PROFILE OF ELIJAH MITI Elijah Miti is a founder and president of Elijah Miti Consultancy Enterprises (EMCE). Elijah Miti consultancy does work for both business and academic institutions and its scope extends from Africa, Europe, and Assia to North and South America. He has spoken and taught at leadership training and Book Writing programs In South Africa, Zambia and has mentees in his Mentorship program on Book Writing. Elijah Miti is an ordained Minister of Religion and currently he is full time Missionary, Author and Book publisher who has published over 300 Books for African Authors and written over 26 books. He has served as keynote speaker and done proposals at government departments, Colleges , Universities , Schools and Religious events around the world including: o Various Churches in South Africa 133 and Zambia. o The Department of High Education in South Africa Elijah Miti is also a sought after key note speaker at many International conferences around the world. Examples of African schools and colleges that he has worked with include: o Robert Hicks High School In South Africa. o Munali High School In Zambia. o Kabulonga Girls High in Zambia. o Lusaka High School in Zambia. o The Gert Sibanda College In South Africa. o University Of Zambia. How To Get Motivated At A Workplace MEDIA APPEARANCES APPEARANCES Elijah Miti has appeared on many TV and Radio shows both internationally and regionally. Some of the show include: June 2008, SABC Africa International News As a Singer and Song Writer. December 2009, Muvi Tv in Zambia As a Book Author. December 2009, Mobi TV as Book Publisher. 135 December 2009,ZNBC Nyanja Program as Book Publisher. December 2009, ZNBC Radio 2 Book Spectrum Program with Donald Kawangu. December 2009, UNZA Radio as Book Author. December 2009, Yatsani Radio As Book Author with Mwenya Mukuka. December 2009, Christian Voice Radio with Lombe Machilika. June 2010 ZNBC Radio 2 Zambia Today Program with Aaron Kamanga. June 2010 , ZNBC TV Kwacha Good Morning Zambia show with Franklin. July 2010, Mobi TV as A Singer and Author. July 2010, Unza Radio Lusaka Star program. November 2010 , NEW York – Radio as How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Author and Publisher. December 2010, ZNBC Radio 2 Book Spectrum Program with Donald Kawangu. January 2011, ZNBC Radio 2 Zambia Today Program with Aaron Kamanga. January 2011, ZNBC TV Kwacha Good Morning Zambia show with Franklin. January 2011, ZNBC Radio 2 Book Spectrum Program with Donald Kawangu. January 2011, UNZA Radio as Book Author. Contact Email: [email protected] 137 New Book Releases How To Alleviate Child Labour In Zambia www.elijahmitimotivation.webstarts.com How To Get Motivated At A Workplace God’s Covenant Promises www.elijahmiti.webstarts.com 139 The Walk Of King David www.elijahmiti.webstarts.com How To Get Motivated At A Workplace 141 How To Get Motivated At A Workplace Vision produces Unity. Where there is no vision there is no unity. Unity produces relationships, Relationships produce Communication. Communication produces Gifts. Gifts produce Excellence. Excellence Produces influence. Influence produces Dominion. Refine your Vision. 143
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