Motivation Reflection

The strong leader recognizes that an important part of information management is reflection. This self-assessment should include personal biases, desires, and preferences. Looking past personal perspectives and reviewing the data within the context out of which it arises deepens the objectivity and clarity with which the leader can observe and assess the data. Critical components that should be carefully accommodated in this reflective self-assessment are: personal biases, current mental models, individual needs, past practices, self-fulfilling expectations, wish listing and prescriptive deliberation. As for my personal biases, I have learned over the years that they are very good yardsticks for me to look at an issue and to know clearly how I feel about it, but I have always known what I think and what I feel are often different than my colleagues and my patients. I use this to keep my mind open to others whose views are different than mine and I use them to approach and analyze situations, but never to influence the decisions or behavior of others. A specific example is that of a woman’s right to choose: I am anti-abortion for myself as a woman but I support safe health care for all women. Current mental models vary from facility to facility and evolve over time. My career has spanned 34 years and I too have evolved during this time. Today, I feel I am working in much more of a collegial culture and one which is at least attempting to embrace diversity

Lack of motivation is when a student losses interests in his/her college education. Lack of motivation is caused by the stress college students develop when they are brought into. These situations are caused by not dedicating enough time to their studies. If first generation college students spent the time they spent worrying about other things for their studies. As a result of not dedicating enough time to their studies first generation college students face this lack of motivation barrier.

As you may have heard, Mr. Swift has made a very modest proposal about what to do with the situation of starvation among adults. Mr. Swift has proposed that after a year of a child's birth, they be eaten if the family wishes. I, being a mother of a baby, currently, could not approve of this proposal more. Me and my husband together, concur, this will allow us to not go hungry, but also fulfill our wish to have another baby. We've always wanted more kids, but we only desire a baby. We don't want them after they have grown older. We already have an older son. Now, with this proposal, we won't go hungry and we can stay full for months on end and all I must do is push out a baby. No big deal.

Sustaining motivation can be tough under the best of circumstances. One of the ways to stay motivated is to set a goal and visualize it down. For athletes, they visualize their performance ahead of time. Another way is to make a list of the reasons you want to accomplish the goal. It is crucial to write down the list with a pen. Moreover, when people write by their hand and connect the letters manually, they engage the brain more actively in the process. A different way to maintain inspired is to break the goal down into smaller pieces. Furthermore, if people take on a project and try to do the whole thing all at once, they are going to be overwhelmed. They need to break it down into the smallest realistic steps and only do one at a time. In A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Beah was a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. His village was attacked by rebels. Then, he was forced to join an army unit who brainwashed him into using guns and drugs. Later on, he witnessed a great deal of violence and UNICEF removed him from the army and put him into a rehabilitation program. With the help of some of the staff, he was able to return to a normal civilian life and get off drugs. Even though Beah had a terrible experience from the civil war, he was able to stay strong through willpower, not listening to peer pressure, and eventually had no free will to disobey his superior commanders.

Growing up in poverty meant always being in a pinch for money. This led me to my decision of seeking a job within the first month of my freshman year in high school. Thankfully, this decision led me to the precious self-taught skill of time management. I was able to build my skills until my sophomore year. I tried to take on more shifts at work than I could handle, in aspiration of saving up for a car, and consequently my grades began to slip. I acquired my first C in my favorite class: Chemistry. Being an aspiring student in the medical field, and a student who prides themselves on their grades, I was devastated. As a result, I soon reached the epiphany that one has to have priorities in life; I chose mine to be education. I discussed with my boss my situation and she gave me a set schedule of a doable 4 days a week. This allowed me to do my homework and studying in advance. This also permitted me to get enough sleep,

The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) has given me insightful information over 4 different dichotomies: 1)Where I focus my attention 2) How I take in information 3) How I make decisions based on the information and 4) How I deal with the world. After completing the assessment, I was dubbed ‘INTJ’. This being 9% Introvert, 38% iNtuitive, 3% Thinking, and 31% Judging. To my surprise, after reading the detailed report, I found most of the information presented, to be ‘spot on’. According to the Center for Confidence and Well-Being, “Of all the personality types, INTJs are most motivated by “vision”. They have a great need to come up with a unifying idea of a future, improved state, which is then their job to realize. This inner vision can be so strong for INTJs and so individual that they are often reckoned to be the most independent-minded of all the types” (Craig, C., 2014). This provided me with great validation that I have been lucky enough to find myself in the right career. Currently, I am the interim Director of Quality at an acute care hospital in San Diego. Daily, myself and my team are looking for ways to improve hospital processes, systems, and relationships. Always striving for a future vision or ‘ideal state’ of how we would like to see our organization functioning to better serve our community. Many people have told me that they could ‘not do what I do’ simply because of the data collecting, analyzing, reporting, and

I’ve never been the best student growing up. It was always difficult for me to focus and be motivated into doing my work, especially my senior year in high school. The high school I attended was Nogales High School in Nogales Arizona. That year, to be able to graduate, we had to complete a senior project in which we had to make a report, have a portfolio, and work hours in a career we wanted for our future. My only thought in doing my project on was on firefighting because it was the only thought I had going into once I graduated high school. However, on my spare time I was doing a whole different thing that could determine my future.

Motivation is vital for student success because it goes hand in hand with desire. In my senior year of high school, I encountered a lot of difficulties dealing with death. I had to deal with four (4) deaths in my senior year alone. Two (2) of the deaths were family members close to me, and the other two (2) were fellow classmates. From that day thru to today, I have come to accept death as a part of life that we all must

The aspect of Motivational Interviewing that really jumped out at me that seemed important was aligning myself with my client. I really think it is important for me to walk with the individual with whom I interviewing. Not to be in a state of agreement or disagreement, free from positive or negative judgements, just getting in step with the people I work with. I just recently used the “Magic wish” question, it’s probably the one I use the most for the beginnings of some self-determination for the clients. It kept us talking for an hour, and helped the individual with what can or cant be done with the presenting problem. The challenges that I anticipate with incorporating Motivational Interviewing into my professional interactions is just

Motivation is the force that makes us do things, whether accomplishing personal goals or completing tasks at work. Most people are motivated as a result of their individual needs being satisfied, which gives them the inspiration to perform specific behaviors for which they receive rewards (Kinicki & Williams, 2011). These needs vary from person to person, as everybody has specific needs to be satisfied. When we consider factors that determine the motivation of employees, many of us think of a high salary. This answer is correct for the reason that some employees will be motivated by money, but mostly wrong for the reason that it does not satisfy other needs to a lasting degree (Bizhelp24, 2010). This supports the idea that human

Sometimes it’s easier for someone else to motivate a person than for that person to motivate themselves, but I believe the theory discussed in the book “MIND OVER MOOD” that a person has to change the way they think in order to change how they feel. If they change their perspective on things their motivations will change too. Motivation to me is this - setting goals, hammering into your mind to finish what you’ve started, associating with motivated people and positive thinkers, and being persistent and patient.

Motivation can come from two sources, from inside of you and from outside of you. It can come from your hopes and expectations. It is from your desire to do something or to be someone, but not everyone is highly

A theory that supports motivation is the self determination theory. In the self determination theory people need to grow and gain fulfillment by a drive in them. Self Determination is the process of deciding how to act on ones environment. When one is trying to overcome a challenge or encountering a new experience a person wants to gain the knowledge to succeed over the new challenge. When self determination theory is in focus internal factors are at play; a person is primarily focused on the need to gain knowledge or independence. There are three factors that contribute to a student’s self determination and the needs are linked to the student’s

What is motivation? What influences it? The term motivation can be defined in different ways. Motivation can simply defined as “ a need that, if high, is evident in a strong desire to achieve, to excel, to reach a high level of excellence” (Lefrancois 430). To become motivated, one must have a positive attitude to a variety of learning skills. Some factors that influence motivation include our peers, friends, parents, and environmental settings. Division four being high school division, attention is focused towards learning and what methods can be used. Students at this stage are more eager and develop a sense of what he or she wants to do and accomplish in upcoming adulthood. With a division comes a group of intelligent theorists. All

Motivation is one of the most discussed topics in the present era’s organisations, especially since renowned psychologists like Maslow and Herzberg are dedicating their efforts to understanding it. Companies are investing a significant amount of resources in improving productivity in order to maximise profits. One of these important resources is of human nature. In order to get the very best out of employees, some motivational approaches need to be used. But what is motivation and how do I successfully motivate? I will try to relate one of my personal experiences with a friend to some of the most influential motivational theories. After introducing my story and making a definition of motivation I will address the ideas of Taylor,