Friday, May 25, 2012
Paring down motivations
Six opportunities for motivation and improvement.
- Internal improvement: Knowledge
- What did I learn today?
- What didn't I know and need to learn?
- Internal improvement: Skills, danger management, emotional regulation, perserverance
- To what areas should I devote deliberate practice to improve my skills?
- Would I benefit from coaching or seeing myself in action?
- Any threats or conflicts avoided, finessed or defused?
- Was I able to control my emotions in order to attain peak performance or did emotions get in my way?
- Am I taking on tasks at the edge of my current abilities to provide challenge yet successful outcomes?
- External improvements
- What improvements in the form of processes, tools, components, products or ideas have I created?
- Competition and measurement
- Am I measuring my performance?
- How am I doing relative to past performance?
- How am I doing relative to others?
- What can I do to improve my performance?
- Am I getting immediate feedback on my performance?
- Relationships and cooperation
- Am I working with others for the pleasure of relationships and to mutually benefit from cooperation and collaboration?
- Am I building or depleting social capital?
- Optimal Choices
- Am I taking advantage of my opportunities?
- In particular, what choices did I make in terms of my attitude, emotional responses and assumed motives of others that improved my day?
- Am I properly balancing short-term urgent needs with important long-term needs (especially improvement)?
Posted at 8:29 PM
Keywords:
Continuous improvement
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