SORRY, PROBABLY YOUR BOSS IS BETTER THAN YOU!

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!.