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Friday, May 25, 2012

Paring down motivations

Six opportunities for motivation and improvement.

  1. Internal improvement: Knowledge
    • What did I learn today?
    • What didn't I know and need to learn?
  2. 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?
  3. External improvements
    • What improvements in the form of processes, tools, components, products or ideas have I created?
  4. 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?
  5. 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?
  6. 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)?

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