How To Maintain Motivation At Work

This pandemic that we find ourselves in has caused significant disruption to businesses all over the world. Whether we realise it or not, all these sudden changes start having a significant effect on our motivation towards work.

Let me tell you, I definitely have had a hard time with motivation this week, and it hasn’t been the first time I have felt like this over the past six months.

How have I dealt with it? My excellent personal assistant- Sarah- and scheduling tasks in my google calendar.

Even if I don’t feel up to it, I know when my calendar pings me a task that it’s better to at least get started on it, causing me less stress and worry in the long run.

Watch my video, where I go more into detail about my struggles with motivation in my business and how I overcome this and come out accomplished on the other side.

Have you struggled with staying motivated at work? Let me know in the comments below!

Video Transcript

Hey everyone, it's Dan Wardrope here from Flexxable.

Today I wanted to talk to you a little bit about motivation.

This week's been really tough personally for me to be able to motivate myself and to be able to get work done.

It feels like I'm limping towards the end of the year and you know, it's just one of those weeks where I've been struggling and you know, Tuesday, I hit Tuesday and it felt like Friday okay?

The days were just dragging and I you know, just really didn't wanna do much work.

I wasn't motivated. And it's just a tough week. You know I think the, you know, the culmination and the cumulative effect of what's going on with the pandemic and COVID probably is effecting a lot of people.

And me especially, it just feels like there's no end in sight at the moment and maybe it's having a knock on effect with work and family and personal stress levels and all that type of stuff.

So I can tell you that I've really struggled this week but the way I've kind of snapped out of it and it hasn't been a perfect week right but I'm not beating myself up about it.

Sometimes it's good to chill a little bit and go easy on yourself but I'm lucky enough to have an executive assistant who's called Sarah and she actually is a really good gauge for me to make sure I get stuff done.

All right, she's always following me up and putting stuff in my diary and allowing timeslots for me to do specific bits of work and it got me thinking.

A lot of you guys might not have an assistant but you might be struggling with motivation and getting stuff done and procrastination and all of that.

So why not try and be specific?

You know, map out the stuff that you need to do for the week and why not try and specifically add those bits and pieces into your calendar, for you to do in advance if you are having a bit of a tough time because your phone pings, you've got specific stuff to do for that couple hours.

Whether it even be an hour or two.

Whatever works for you but why don't you give it a go because my phone pinging with specific tasks really kind of got me motivated and you know, not especially motivated but like

I'm like okay, that's the first step.

Now I've been told that I need to do this now, so I might as well get going.

I might as well write those scripts for a YouTube ad.

I might as well do the joint venture agreement for the solicitor so I can send it back to her.

I'll just start okay.

So it's a nice little first step and it might be a hack that works for you okay.

So give it a go if you're struggling for motivation.

That's it for me, nice short one today.

Catch you soon,

Bye.