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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Keywords: Continuous improvement