Self-motivation is a key life skill and something that everybody interested in personal development should think carefully about. Recently, the Personality development workshop held in the mini MBA course at Wabs Talk – a top-rated public speaking training Institute focused on the importance of Self-motivation. Motivation is what pushes us to achieve our goals, feel more fulfilled and improve the overall quality of life.

Daniel Goleman, the author of several seminal books on Emotional Intelligence, identified four elements that makeup motivation:

• Personal drive to achieve, the desire to improve or to meet certain standards.
• Commitment to personal or organizational goals.
• The initiative, which he defined as readiness to act on opportunities.
• Optimism, the ability to keep going and pursue goals in the face of setbacks.

In their simplest form, you can think about these two types of motivation as :

• Intrinsic: To perform an action or task based on the expected or perceived satisfaction of performing the action or task. Intrinsic motivators include having fun, being an interested and personal challenge.
• Extrinsic: To perform an action or task in order to attain some sort of reward including money, power or good marks or grades.
WabsTalk has a rich learning environment with great interactive competitions encouraging students to excel by providing them many intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors.

Skills involved in Self-Motivation:

There are a number of skills involved in self-motivation. These include:

1. Setting high but realistic goals.
There is a strong correlation between self-motivation, personal goals, and achievement. In order to get properly motivated, and indeed to achieve, it helps to spend some time thinking about your personal goals and what you want to achieve in your life.

2. Taking the right level of risk.
In its simplest terms, risk management is thinking about what could possibly go wrong, deciding how likely that would be and taking action either to avoid the problem or its consequences.

3. Seeking constant feedback to work out how to improve.

4. Being committed to personal or organizational goals and going the ‘extra mile’ to achieve them.

5. Actively seeking out opportunities and seizing them when they occur.

6. Being able to deal with setbacks and continue to pursue goals despite obstacles.

KEEP MOTIVATED

Finally, it is important to keep track of what you want to achieve and stay motivated to do so. To keep your motivation levels up to try to:

1. Learn and Acquire Knowledge

Read, study and talk to people – knowledge and information are key for feeding your mind and keeping you curious and motivated.
Debates, current affair discussions and grand public speaking championships at Wabstalk keep you in the process of acquiring a plethora of knowledge while building up your communication intelligence and making you more confident and motivated.

2. Keep the Company of Enthusiastic People

Try to avoid negative people and seek out positive, well-motivated people. It is a lot easier to be motivated if the people around you are.

3. Be Positive

Keep a positive attitude, see problems and setbacks as learning opportunities.
Work on ironing out your weaknesses and building on your strengths.

DO IT

Try not to procrastinate, assess the risks but keep working towards your goals.
Don’t be afraid to ask others for help and don’t hold back if you can help them. Seeing other people succeed will help to motivate you to do the same.