Are you excited about the new year 2024? 🤩
Setting new goals in 2024 is the new power but how can you keep yourself motivated through out the year to achieve them all? Ask yourself these questions as a self-reflective exercise:
💎 How can I continue standing strong in my super power?
💎 How can I advocate more for others in 2024?
💎 What area of life do I need to become more of a leader for myself in 2024?
💎 Why do I need to stay motivated to achieve my goals in 2024?
Last year, I was awarded by
LinkedIn
as Top Executive Coaching Voice which is an amazing recognition of the helpful content I create under my mentoring brand: Green Apples Career. So, I would like to continue to deliver science based mentoring and coaching to help leaders stay motivated in 2024.
There are science based strategies, protocols that we can utilise to stay motivated:
- Ask yourself: do I want to achieve this goal, on a scale from 1 to 10 how motivated I am to pursue and achieve this career goal? Make sure it's not only an imposed goal by your line manager.
- If you are motivated use this strategy: POSITIVE VISUALISATION: visualise the end, how would you feel when you accomplish it? From 1 to 5 minutes we can visualise the positive end and how you might feel? This is a very effective strategy for when you feel motivated.
- If you don't feel motivated use FEAR BASED VISUALISATION: how much more lousy you would feel if you don't achieve the career goal? Visualise severe consequences, even failure. To me personally is a bit harsh, but there were many times when I had to employ this fear based strategy. The scientific data proves that there is a certain shift in our brain that recruit the reward molecules.
- Use FOCUS to increase motivation - it's called COGNITIVE FOCUS and mental readiness. We need a physical target within the proximity of where we are performing our work activity, keep that focus (blink or not 🤓) for 30, 60 or 90 seconds. What's happening in our brain in that moment is that there are chemicals produced to increase the cognitive focus. Also the dopamine is generated to increase our focus and motivation.
- Another protocol mentioned by Tim Ferriss is to put your phone on air mode whilst performing the action to accomplish the goal. This is what I literally do at the time of writing this newsletter. There is so much silence at home, no distractions, a cup of peppermint and fennel tea and my Chocolina cat snoozing off 🤩
- Another protocol: RANDOM INTERMITENT REWARD *RIR - the point is to not reward yourself for every single step. Simply flip a coin to randomly reward yourself. This RIR is going to keep you motivated. This is an easy one, especially in toxic workplaces where managers 'forget' or ignore consistently to reward employees for the good progress. Or am I wrong? I'm dreaming of a workplace where coins are flipped or at least some kind of coin flipping to randomly reward the good progress of the teams. 🤓
- If you feel less motivated half way through the goal - MIDDLE PROBLEM - the neuro science advises to chunk that section so then, you acknowledge + move + eliminate the middle problem.
Dear HR seniors, Dear C-suite you may consider incorporating the Huberman science advise into the 2024 Performance Management and Setting Performance Goals.
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And more importantly in 2024 don't forget to have fun, socialise, sleep well, eat healthy and exercise.
this article is written by our founder Ana-Maria Velica 🍏
