I know it
has been a long time since I have written in this blog and I must apologise. I
decided to take a break. I am now back from that hiatus. Honestly, I haven’t
been buying makeup and have been sticking to those brands that I know work well
for me. Also doesn’t help that I have been doing all that adult stuff and I have
been on a tight budget!
I have also
been breaking away from makeup and started to get back into nailart (see
@kbeautynail to see what I have been up to).
Anyway;
back on topic. I made an executive decision to not only write about makeup but
to broaden my horizons; baking adventures, nail arts and my contemplation of
life and of course I will continue to write reviews.
Due to the
break, I also realised a key factor that was missing from my life: motivation.
Motivation
is defined as “a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way”.
It is a “desire or willingness to do something; enthusiasm” (I honestly just
googled that).
Is it just
me or is society lacking motivation, particularly at work? It feels like every
day, I wake up feeling energized but when the time comes to get ready and head
to work, the energy is drained a bit. Stepping foot into the building and it
feels like the energy is just stripped.
Why is
that? I asked myself that question every single day. Digging deep and stripping
bare my feelings, I have to say I honestly like my job (love is a strong word
remember!). I find it a great challenge and I am continually learning every
day. However, what is making me dread work? It isn’t my colleagues? No, they
are pretty awesome but they are also feeling the same about work. What could it
be that is affecting everyone? What could compel someone who like their job but
don’t want to come to work?
Motivation?
Misunderstandings? Pressure? Management?
There is a
lot of factors however the one I want to concentrate on is motivation. I feel
like it is the underlying factor; the one that is a root cause.
Motivation
is what is missing. Now, why is motivation missing? There is an onus to be self-motivating
at work, show initiative, meet targets, achieve more in the same amount of time
etc. But what happens when you as a worker for a corporation, have reached your
limit? In society, we have been taught, if you have been beaten down, to dust
yourself off and try again. So naturally, at work, if we have been beaten down,
we dust ourselves off and continue working, but this time trying harder to
achieve outcomes.
There is
one major difference between society and the workplace. The world beats us
down, we don’t have an exact hold on it. However, in the workplace, there is
management.
The dreaded
big M word. Management. Management CAN do something.
I see so
many times, work pressures are passed down. I would be lying if it wasn’t
understandable. Staff on the bottom of the hierarchy are pushed to reach
targets and work a certain way by our superiors. Our superiors are being pushed
by their superiors and so on and so on. However, shouldn’t the buck stop
somewhere and performance requirements be filtered? Instead of passing on the
pressure, where in the hierarchy should pressures be filtered and help build
staff up to achieve the performance outcomes and not putting them down? As you
know, staff with continued hostile environments will slowly lose motivation, be
less inclined to show initiative and only put the bare minimum effort in to
“fly under the radar”.
I must
stress, by no means and I an expert on this topic. I just wanted to send this
post out to the cosmos.
I am a firm
believer that Management are meant to be leaders and not bosses. Management
should be building and promoting staff, not putting the down. Management should
induce encouragement and feeling of unity. Management should embody growth and
development. Not only this, I also believe Management should be able to
discipline trouble staff. I have seen Management who are not been given the
support from their company when required when it comes to trouble staff. It
creates an atmosphere that there is no consequence for wrong-doing. When I
write wrong-doing I mean not following protocols such as methods which affects
quality work for an example.
I may have
gotten a little side-tracked there. However, it does still come back to
motivation. If people are not motivated, then the toxic environment will not go
away.
Again, I
have to stress, I am not an expert on this topic. Just writing my “musings”
about how motivation seems to be lost in the workplace (see what I did there?
;)
What are
your thoughts about motivation?
Until next
time!
Stay
beautiful, be you xoxo.
