Maybe you think that your professional
career is not the one that you deserve, but unfortunately your boss and
other bosses are not able to see all the skills that you have and the
progresses and work that you are doing. Maybe
you think as well that unfortunately other people are promoted
instead of you only due to
their good personal relationships with the big bosses or that it is
simply a question of luck or simply the life is not just. And maybe as well you do not
understand how your boss arrived to be your boss, because he has a lot of
areas to improve and you are convinced that you will do his
position much better than him.
Do you know what?. If you think all
that, you are part of the big majority of the employees
that thinks that they are better than their bosses. You are not an exception. And tell
me, have you got something doing / thinking that?. No, you are exactly in the
same situation, while others are always the promoted. Well, let´s
try other possibility. Think
that if your boss is your boss is because he has skills that you do not have. Try to find them and copy them.
You have a big advantage, if he has these skills, he should be your best
master. And your boss is the most interested person in that you are
successful. Why?. Because if you are successful, he will be successful.
And now we arrive to this subject about
the motivation.
There are many people that says that are not motivated because their bosses are
not motivating them. From my point of view the
most important fact to feel yourself motivated is that you think that you are
progressing professionally or/and personally. If you feel that you
are in a crossroads or losing influence, you will not be motivated. Your
boss can help you, but only if you want to be motivated, you will be motivated.
How you can give yourself this inner motivation?
1. Think really which activities you like
and try to do / propose them to your boss. Usually we are performing better in the
activities that we like. To find them, analyze all your past jobs and think
when you were happier. Usually there is a link between the high peaks in the
emotions and your performance and motivation.
2. Do not say no to the hardest jobs. Nobody wants to do the hardest jobs. I
know, they are very boring. But there are three reasons to accept them.
The first one is that your boss propose you these tasks because he trust
in you and he wants that you are doing them. The second reason is that it
is scientifically proved that not always you like something before doing it or
at the start, sometimes you are doing it and the repeated practice makes that
you like it. Think for example in these people that maybe you did not like at
first sight but after a while they became your friends, the process is
something similar!. The third reason is that keeping a discipline makes you happy.
As Picasso said, art is to wake up at eight in the morning to paint. If an
artist says that, for us it should not be too much different. Discipline
is not against the art.
3. Put yourself small targets to be done. And control that you are doing
them and treat yourself for these small successes. Enjoy the way, do not think
only in the end of the way. This helps you to feel and realize that you
are progressing.
4. Have good relationship with everybody. This is priceless to be happy at
work. Be a good person, that your mind is not punishing you for something
that you did or did not do. And never enter in conflicts. Everybody loses
in conflicts. If you think that at work we are representing a role,
as in the theater, you will not take personally anything, because
you will not see personal discussions, you will see different roles interests,
and then there is always the possibility of agreement and alignment.
5. Escape from negative gossiping or
from negative people. It will affect your motivation and your
moral. You can think that it is not important, but it is!. It is similar
to a car crossing the mud, at the start you think that you can continue because
the depth is a little, but the car will enter more each minute in the mud
and there could be a time that you are stuck in the mud (then all the
motivation lost!)
6. Think if really your problem is
at work. Sometimes you think that you are not happy
for work reasons, but it could happen that you give too much importance
to your work because something at your personal life lacks. Then analyze very
well the problems and life is not only work, sometimes working less hours
and leave the work before to do an hobby or see your family / friends can bring
you more productivity and motivation at work.
I hope that now you do not care to know
that you boss is better than you. And you know , this colleague that you
hate and is promoted possibly is better than you as well. Try to know what they
have that you do not have, learn it, practice it, improve yourself and the next
promotion will be for you. And if it is not, do not worry, at least we have
got to be motivated, that it is not a small thing in these times!.
