Factors That Make It Hard For You To Be Motivated

Mar
12
2009

Factors That Make It Hard For You To Be Motivated

There will always be times in your life when you have to perform tasks that you don’t wish to do for one reason or another, like working with someone you don’t like, going to work on Mondays, taking the garbage out, driving to meet the in-laws at the airport, having dinner with the spouse’s friends, etc.

Doing these things just draws off any motivation you have and makes you feel sad, tired, sorry, even annoyed. But did you know that there are also things inside you that actually make it difficult to feel excited and enthusiastic?

Here are some factors that make it hard for you to be motivated. First, there’s your mindset. This is a major factor that can make you hard to motivate because it can severely limit your understanding of the world and all experiences in general. Your mindset can sometimes be composed of growth-inhibiting beliefs, prejudices, biases and standards.

An example of this would be if you believe that nothing good can come out of your staff, you’ll fail to see that there is a clerk there that actually has management potential. If you refuse to believe that you can actually write for a famous magazine because you’re a person from a small town, you’ll miss out on an opportunity to expose your talent and reap its rewards.

Next we have your comfort zone. We all have certain limitations in our minds, which are things we decide on based on our own personal beliefs, ethics and standards. And within these limits, we feel comfortable and can do as we like.

We can sometimes begin to feel discomfort or embarrassment once we approach the outer edges. This can cause us not to go further because we do not like what we don’t know or haven’t experienced before. We’d rather stay within our comfort zones so that we have a fear of the unknown.

The problem though is that a narrow comfort zone can be a major factor that makes it hard for you to be motivated. Each time you are presented with a new idea or experience, you check to see if it fits into your comfort zone and if it doesn’t, then you simply refuse it. This is unfortunate because many of these ideas and experiences can be good for you.

Another factor is your past experience. For instance, if you had a bad experience in the kitchen it could be the reason why you to hate to cook. Or if your hard work went unappreciated by your former boss, it could be why you don’t feel motivated about your job.

Your background can also make you be unmotivated. Your personal, social and professional experience has a lot to do with how you decide things in your life. They can be factors that make you hard to motivate. If these experiences are negative, they tend to make you more hesitant and unsure of yourself because they affect your self-esteem and confidence.

For example, if you’ve only been met with rejection or ridicule in your life, you won’t feel a strong need to excel or to improve yourself because you’ll be thinking ‘so what? Nothing I ever did was good anyway. Why would things change now?’

Unless you consciously make an effort to identify these past experiences and refuse to let them control your life, it will never be easy to be motivated.

Great references to check on the subject of motivation factors:

Leveraging Nonmonetary Factors to Attract Top Talent
But within three weeks, five of those nine returned to MHHS for the simple reason that they did not like the work environment at the other hospital – money was not enough of a motivating factor to keep them away.

Motivation factors
The failure is directly attributed to motivating factors. Unless an individual can clearly identify their motivating factor or their significant and meaningful reasons why they wish to attain the goal.