Motivation is the act or process of stimulating to action, providing an incentive or motive, especially for an act.
Every
person has different reasons for working. The reasons for working are
as individual as the person. But, we all work because we obtain
something that we need from work. The something obtained from work
impacts morale, employee motivation, and the quality of life.
Although in general, a normal social human being’s initial intentions are the three basic amenities – roti, kaapda aur makaan, tied to their different variations of life, however,
these intrinsic requirements of our daily life often shift so fast and
invariably that we ourselves don’t know about the change.
Apart
from the above three reasons, people tend to think about the brand under
which they work, the team they work with, even the manager’s they work
under. Obviously for a knowledge intrinsic person, there will also be
the quality of work which he performs under his rule-map is an add-on to
the various reasons of our motivation.
It will be very wrong if
we only talk about motivation at work. Every human being, being a
social, needs motivation in every act of his life. Even a shrimp man
going to a gym would often require a motivation of a woman in a
relationship, or a vigorous concentration in studies and good results
can be a result of motivation to out-peer a student’s classmates.
As
the other facts of life, reasons of motivation are also a double-sided
coin. Sometimes, peer pressure, estranged manager, extreme competition
is a reason for motivation and sometimes even trivial comparisons like a
colleague buying a new car is a motivation for a person to work better
to have a good hike in the next performance cycle, so that he can also
achieve better than his colleague, at the least the same.
In this
short interview with motivation, I will keep aside the different
under-a-microscope debates and discussions on how a company should work
upon motivating its employees for the benefit of the company, whereas I
would like to emphasize more upon one of the important factors of
motivation being – self-realization.
The reason
is very simple, after meeting so many people in life, understanding and
overcoming so many difficulties in life and more watching these
difficulties at my friends, colleagues, family member’s life, I try to
think and understand how self-realization impacts our motivation and our
act in life.
A very basic example would be:
Considering how
much a company is successful in motivating its employees, it can be
very possible that an employee is not able to work properly or
concentrate efficiently on his/her deliverables if there is a problem at
his/her family. I would believe that who all are reading this article
would surely accept the fact, that we feel disturbed at workplace, we
cannot concentrate on our work, if something is wrong at our home – it
can be our parents are ill, son is not doing well in studies, husband is
having a probable affair with one of his young colleagues, etc..etc..
Even
if we not think of these great life-changing reasons in our life, even
trivial reasons like I was not able to sleep correctly yesterday, my
house-maid didn’t came to work for the last couple of days, or more even
will that beautiful dress still remain available till my salary – “I
loved it so much, I can’t see Prerna (she is my imaginative colleague)
wearing that dress to impress boss”….
I accept that if I bring
forward these reasons in front a psychologist or human behavior
specialist, he will surely have enough reasons and debates to confirm
the second half of reasons to be not trivial, but I am not identifying
whether the reasons are trivial or not, but the fact how the reasons –
irrespective of how important or obscure they are, actually relate to
our deliverable.
I believe and try to practice a very simple funda on this – don’t bring your libido to work
(this was a dialogue in one of my favorite films). If you think about
the line, you will understand that motivation is actually a result of
imbalance of the basic components of economics of life – supply and
demand J
Motivation is indirectly proportional to the imbalance of supply and demand of expectations in life.
Now if you can see, from my above economical dialogue, if I take out the components:
Motivation,
Inversely proportional, Imbalance
Supply & Demand of Expectations
And
if you only look into the last line of words, won’t you agree with me
that these are completely at our will. Now I am not asking anyone to
limit the last line, actually I believe if you limit it, you will put
pressure on yourself by doing that. I believe the existence of human
being is solely upon them. However, I would just want to point out the
second line here along with the location of it.... meaning exactly where
and at what point of our life or day we are creating the imbalance.
Explaining it, why don’t we oath on the fact that we will balance our
supply & demand of expectations as much as possible to keep our
motivations high at workplace; we can still have them later part of the
day where we can afford it. The reason so again brings the mind readers
in debate, that how will we decide and confirm when and where to afford
what.
I will leave this discussion here and will continue next
week, if I get valuable comments, suggestions and insights from whoever
reads this….. it will help me to study further on this.
Till then, keeping the right and wrong to be decided by the reader and not the author.
