How to Get Motivated and Love Your Job Again

Remember your very first day on the job? Your shoes had a shine like the tiles on the Space Shuttle and the crease in your slacks could have diced celery. The air was somehow fresher, the birds chirpier. You had been hired. You'd been given a chance to excel, a chance to make a difference.

Now contrast that with this morning.

Are you motivated to wake up every morning and go to your job with full enthusiasm?
After a while, most people end up making one compromise after another until they've resigned themselves to mediocrity. It's darned hard to keep that first-day buzz going.

BUT…there's no reason you can't choose to recover a good measure of that first-day feeling. You can motivate yourself to strive for excellence, and put it to good use in the service of everyone whose lives you touch on a daily basis. And, you can love your job again.

It's all about making the choice to do it.

Why You Need to Get Motivated, Find Your Enthusiasm, and Love Your Job Again

Have you ever met a two-year-old who wasn't enthusiastic? We come prepackaged with it. And then…

What happens to us?

What happens is that we make a choice. Some of us choose to make the effort to stay in touch with our inner enthusiasm and love our jobs. Others find reasons to lose touch with it--boredom, responsibilities, challenges, fatigue.

But here's the problem: Enthusiasm is the lifeblood of all success. Without it, nothing great happens. If you choose to lose touch with your inner enthusiasm, you are choosing mediocrity. It's really that simple.

Sure, there are plenty of reasons to curb your enthusiasm. But there are just as many reasons to find it again including celebrating your incredible good fortune. In the process you can make that fortune even better.

Here's How to Find Your Enthusiasm

Step 1: Start with the fact that you're not dead yet, that you were born at all, that you have a job, and that compared to a lot of folks, you have a pretty darn good job.

Step 2: Now take a close look at the circumstances of this good job you have. Write down your five biggest complaints and spin them into positives. For example, "My boss micromanages me" can be reframed as "My boss cares enough about me to step into my work when I need help."

If you've truly committed to finding your first-day buzz again, you should be an awful lot closer to it now than you were ten minutes ago.

All this rethinking and reframing has removed a HUGE energy drain from your life--one you were probably unaware of. It takes massive amounts of energy to continually reinforce your own sense of victimhood. Excellence is MUCH less expensive. Now that you feel lucky instead, what on Earth are you going to do with all that energy?

How about playing the Big Game you signed up for?

Now, you just filled yourself up with a lion's share of this precious thing called the human spirit, and it will not invest in mediocrity. So play the meaningful, bighearted game you always dreamed of playing, and leave the mediocrity to others. Get motivated and start loving your job again. Roxanne Emmerich

My Job Application bow...

Convergys Commonwealth


I woke-up early in the morning for my interview with Convergys in commonwealth. These was long overdue since I was advised to go there monday last week. Anyweis, so yes I had the initial interview, the 2 long hour exam from which the last 30 minutes is for my typing test, needless to say, I plunge from the mud because of the typing test. Well, I need to get 35WPM, which at first, I thought was easy. So after the first try I got 34WPM, the instructor told me I need to get 35WPM. Then after few attempts I made it and even surpassed the target, I got 38WPM. Though it was exhausting, the good part is I passed all the exams and It's really rewarding. Just try and try and you will succeed as what the old saying says.

Freelance Job

I'm recently looking for a freelance job on the Internet, and after a few searches and reading some of the forums about freelancing jobs. I came to find that Odesk has a good reputation on providing freelance jobs. So after I read on the feedback I decided to sign-up on Odesk, I started to create a profile, it's like creating a resume out of Odesk layout, and I already apply for 2 jobs as Data Entry Support and Customer Service Position. Well it's free and it really cater to my needs.

Interview TIPS

Interview TIPS

An interview is a little bit scary, as your thoughts goes rumbling with hesitation and fear. For some it's as easy as counting numbers 1 to 10 but for others

it's a hell of a ride. But nevertheless with proper preparation you will be much better.

Interview Tip 1: Plan Ahead
- Do a little homework! Research the company and the position if possible, as well as the people you will meet at the interview.
- Review your work experiences
- Be ready to support past career accomplishments with specific information towards the companies needs.
- Have your facts ready!

Interview Tip 2: Role Play
- Once you have finished studying, do a role playing (rehearsing)
biteTIPS: You can look at the mirror and try to imagine that you were infront of the interviewer and you are answering the questions of the interviewer.
- Sample Questions:
- Tell me about yourself?
- What do you know about our company?
- Why should we hire you?

Interview Tip 3: Eye Contact
- Always make sure you keep an eye contact with the interviewer.
- Show you are really interested with the job and you know what you're talking about.
biteTIPS: If you can't stand staring at the eye you can direct your eye to the nose which is near to the eyes. It may seem you keep the eye contact to the interviewer.

Interview Tip 4: Be positive
- It's given that being positive reflects good personality.
- In particular, avoid negative comments to past employers.
biteTIPS: Don't be too serious, smile more often on the interview but don't overdo. It shows that you're not just work but you also know how to play.

Interview Tip 5: Adapt
- Be sensitive to the style of the interviewer.
- Pay attention to those details of dress, office furniture and general decor w/c will afford helpful clues to assist you in tailoring your presentation.

Interview Tip 6: Relate
- Try to relate your answers to the interviewer and the company.
- Focus on achievements relevant to the position.

Interview Tip 7: Encourage
- Encourage the Interviewer to share information about his/her company.
- Demonstrate your interest.
biteTips: A bit of ass-kissing is not a bad thing, it might leave a good impression to the interviewer. So prepare yourself for ass-kissing.

9 Most Important Career Planning Tips

9 Most Important Career Planning Tips

Some of us have a need to step-up to career ladder and reach the peak of their career others might just want to stay at the same place for a long time. But whatever our career plans is a little effort to push ourselves won't hurt much and who knows.?! this Tips might help you in the long run.

1. Never Stop Learning
* Life long learning is your keyword.
- It's human nature to discover things that is new and we tend to push ourselves to the limit as long as our body could capable to accomplish.
- Change is inevetible. The world is constantly changing and as a way to cope-up with changes we need to be flexible and learn to adapt to a given situation. The same with learning as a career individual learning never ended in college it's a long process of picking bits of learning along the way which eventually leads to wisdom, that can be used in everyday living.
- If you want a real and long lasting career you should add regular updates to your skills and knowledge.

2. Ask, Listen and Learn
* A good listener can learn a lot.
- It is impossible for an individual to learn something if he will never ask and know first what he needs to learn and listen to what someone else's say about such thing and be able to learn to what someone else's say in that way you could learn.
- Listening means that your absorbing the thoughts and knowledge of the speaker. You might agree or have a different view of what doea the speaker has to say. What it is important is that you listen.
- In once career Ask, Listen and learn has a big role in your development not just as an individual but also as a professional. When you listen to your co-workers, boss and your superior you can learn a lot from their experiences in that way you can able to apply it in your own career.
- Ask for opinion about your performance so that you would realize what you need to improve.

3. Fulfill your current job
* Your current job might be the best place to start your career.
- Discovering your innermost talent start when you have your first career. That's the time you will fully discover your strenghts and weaknesses.
- Doing your job well and fulfill your responsibilites is often the best way to start a good future career.

4. Build your networks
* Your next career step might arise from your contact network.
- Did you know that more than 50% of all jobs are obtained from contact networks.
- If you have a good contact network, it is also a good place to discover future careers, to explore new trends about new opportunities.
- Spend some time building new contacts and don't forget to maintain the ones you already have.
- One of the best way to get serious information from your network is to regularly ask your contacts how they are, what they do & what is new about their career?.

5. Identify your current job
* Your current job should be identified, not assumed.
- Make sure you don't work with tasks you assume are important. This is a waste of time, energy and talent.
- At times when we already have our job we tend to assume that we already know what we need to be doing, were in fact what we're doing don't have a significant effect for the progress of the company and you as a professional. We should learn to ask question, talk to your superior about what is most important thing that you should be doing. You will be surprised about the difference between what you assume, & what is really important. In effect you will learn to save your talent, energy and time.

6. Identify your next job
* Your dream job must be identified.
- Before you start planning your future career, be sure you identified your dream job. But for some identifying once dream job is hell deep. One solution would be identify what interest you the most, what makes you happy and what type of job you would rather work for free!
- In your dream job, you will be doing all the things that you enjoy. When you love your job you work no more. Everything is smooth sailing.
- Questions we need to answer: Help us identify the job that suits our personality.
- Do you like or dislike having responsibility for other employees?
- Do you like to work with technology or w/ people?
- Do you want to run your own business?
- DO you want to be an artist, a designer or skilled engineer? a manager maybe?
- Before building your future career your goal must be identified.

7. Prepare yourself
* Your dream job might show up tomorrow. Be prepared.
- Always prepare yourself and your CV. Update your skills, add work experiences, describe your job responsibilities and learn to describe yourself. If you don't know how to write CV or describing yourself, well you better learn now.
- who might know, Tomorrow may show up your dream job.

8. Pick the right tool
* Pick the tools that you can handle.
- You can build your future career using a lot of different tools like studying, doing part-time job, or freelance work.
- You can also enroll for short courses with certification tests that might add valuable weight to your CV. And don't forget your current job is often the most valuable source of building new skills.
- Don't pick a tool that is too heavy for you to handle!

9. Realise your dreams
* Put your dreams into action.
- Don't let a busy job kill your dreams. If you have plans about taking more education, getting a better job, starting your own comapny or something else, you should not use your daily job as a "waiting station". Your daily job will get more & more busy you will be caught up in the rat race, & you will burn up your energy.
- If you have this energy, you should use it now, to realize your dreams.