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5
Jul 10

Rescue Guide for the Unemployed: Five Steps for Motivation to Success

Have you lost your long searched job for a minor mistake? Or maybe you keep quitting when things get tough. Do you feel that you lost all your energy to get up start over again?

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I experienced these feelings when I resigned from my job at a network PR agency. Those of you who have experienced the atmosphere of such agencies would perfectly know that it can be REALLY fast and chaotic out there. So, being home does make me feel like a fish out of sea.

I know that this is the case with many occupations and with many work environments; you simply adapt yourself to it. And at the end you feel too tired to start again.

However, there is no point in losing your orientation and feeling depressed. It is true that some people are natural born Polyannas with unlimited energy. Still, motivation to success is not a gift from above, rather it is a vital talent that you should develop. You can actively work on it as a part of your ‘self development plan’ following the five step guidline provided below.

1. Change Your Environment

Sometimes changing the environment works well when you feel trapped. The low mooded friends are the major obstacles to self motivation at this period of your life. These people whould continuously grumble and whinge. Or else there are those know-it-alls. For them, if you failed it is probably because you didn’t know how to handle things with your boss and find your way around. They would go on preaching you the “to-do”s of professional life. You don’t need either of these. Try to get away and make your mind up peacefully.

2. Focus on Your Dreams

In order to motivate yourself to success, you should know in what you want to succeed. Take into account your interest, traits and dreams. Do you enjoy the challange of creating the new advertisement campaign for the client who has been losing market to the competitor? Or, do you want to have regular working hours and a good income. Should you carry on with the carreer path you have been following? Maybe you are not motivated because basically you don’t like your occupation. Focus and listen to yourself.

3. Get Prepared

Once you are calm and focused on what you want to do for your life, get prepared for it. Equippe yourself with the required skills and knowledge. Introduce yourself to the key people. Being well prepared fuels your motivation

4. Boost Your Confidence

Trust in yourself. Think of what you have accomplished so far. Maybe you were asked to leave in your last job, or you resigned for not getting well with your directors. Everyone has been through such occasions in their lives. Instead of fixing your thoughts on what you have done wrong, remember those you contributed to the company and your clients. You have done that before, you can do it again.

5. Visualize Success

When you prepare to start again with your career, close your eyes and visualize yourself achieving something that you really wanted. Shaking hands with your new employer, holding the Oscar or having just made your first million. Try to experience how you would feel. Weird it may sound, yet I assure you that it works perfectly well.

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15
Sep 09

Quick Guide to Time Management

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You need to acquire certain skills and techniques in order to manage time to accomplish your goals and projects. It is obvious that you can’t change your habits from night to day, but following the tips in our quick guide can make things way easier to you. So, follow up with the steps…

goal_settingSet and define your goals –
What is your definition of success? What do you want in life to be happy? Get to know yourself and give sound decisions as for your goals. If you want to learn how to play cello, make sure that it is really something that will make you happy, as well as that you have enough patience, time and talent. Your mom might urging you to attend college but maybe your calling is for trade… you should know. From the most important decisions of your life (such as choosing your profession) to minor ones (loosing weight) first and for most you should set and define your goals at the begining and make sure that it is what you want to do and what you can and should do.

taskDetermine the tasks –
Make a list of tasks to be completed to achieve your goals. It will serve as an alternative or supplement to memory. These could be grocery lists or project management lists. In either case, first get acquintance with all steps, parts and requirements of achieving your particular goal and determine the correct tasks. Going for shopping, you should know the full list of ingredients of your recipe, for a modern dance program audition; likewise, name the sort of classes you should attend, the techniques you should master even the people you should meet.

The traditionally, you write these on a piece of paper. Now, a great deal of digital equivalents are available, such as PIM (Personal information management) applications and most PDAs. There are also several free web-based task list applications. It would be wise you check some of these.

priorityPick the priorities –
Most of your lists won’t be a simple as a grocery list. They are often much more complex and multi-layered. In order not to get disoriented and feel desperate, you should pick your priorities and organize your tasks accordingly.

There are numerous techniques to  organize your priorities.

  • ABC
  • PARETO
  • FIT
  • POSEC
  • EISENHOWER

ABC analysis is the most frequently used technique in business management. It is basically the categorization of the whole body of data into groups, marked as A, B, and C:

A – Tasks that are most urgent and important. (~today)
B – Tasks that are important but not urgent. (~this week)
C – Tasks that are neither urgent nor important. (~this month)

You may then rank each intra-group items according to priority and start with A1.

Time-ManagementAllocation of time & Scheduling –
We’ve said start with A1. But, do start. Once your priorities are determined and your list is ranked, allocate a certain time for each task and schedule it. You may prefer allocating the longest time period for the hardest tasks and do it before everything else. Getting something done within your planned time, will make you feel easy and relieved.

Monitoring –
Working on a certain project or on a specific goal, you should monitor how well you perform on time management periodically. Getting to know doing what brings one success is hard, you should check on yourself time to time. Maybe you are most productive in the morning. Or maybe you speed up in time. Maybe it is hard for you to start, and some rewards are needed. You will figure out.

TimeOutTime out –
Breaks and time outs are just as important as the time you allocate for your work. Allocate time for breaks wisely. If it was an extraordinarily unproductive day, or you need a very urgent task to do, it is not the correct time to go for a movie. But otherwise, try to relax, and enjoy your breaks, knowing that you deserved through a well done time management. Good job!