Motivation

Every single day you wake up to go to work the chances are you probably want to stay in bed and wake up later, but the majority of times you don't and you get up and get ready and then eventually arrive at work. Why do we do this? We do this because there is something driving us to do it, there is something telling us that we need to get to work, for some people it's because they NEED the money in order to pay things like rent and bills, for others its because they feel the need to succeed and be the best they can, and for a select few its because for some reason they actually enjoy work!

I personally go to work because I need to be able to pay rent and bills however if that was the only reason that I went then I would only work part time but I have other desires that work can help me achieve I like to go out on a weekend and socialise by drinking in order to do this I need to earn so my main motivation for working the hours I do is the money. Not everybody has the same desires behind there motivation, some people who have got a fair bit of money and don't really need to work sometimes still work, their motivation is the fact that it gets them out of the house, keeps them in touch of reality and allows them to socialise with a wide range of people.

If every day you go to work just for the basic wage, knowing fine well that there is no scope for promotion, that the job neither opens up any new doors or provides you anything other than a means to an end then the chances are you are not going to meet the needs of the business, a business requires both productivity and quality out of you. In my previous job I was working for the government and with a government job your job is pretty much guaranteed unless you commit gross misconduct of course. So if the job had not had other things to offer me then there is absolutely no way that I would have reached my potential at work as with it being a government job they could not follow Mcgregor's theory x in which he believed that they needed more authoritative and could get people to work with threat of punishment