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How to Effectively Manage Your Career (page 2)
by Susan Zitron Woods
Zitron Career Services
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Creating A Personal Career Plan (page 1)
Your Internal Motivators (page 2)
Non-Negotiable Career Criteria (pages 3, 4, 5) |
Your Internal Motivators
Each person has internal motivators that begin developing in childhood. They are established through interactions you have with other people, and through positive and negative circumstances and experiences that influenced you. Identifying these motivators is important in helping you to understand your personal values and motivators. Once you discover what kinds of people, circumstances and experiences you find satisfying, you will want to recognize them as part of your internal motivators that make up your character. They will become as important to your personal fulfillment and often your ability to succeed as your job itself.
Begin with your very first recollection of feeling a sense of fulfillment or recognition that you accomplished something, whether anyone else noticed or not. Once you have tracked through your life and written down these influential memories, go back and highlight the people, circumstances and actions that led and contributed to your feeling a sense of fulfillment or actual accomplishment.
When you are finished, try and summarize them into an identifiable list of success and/or patterns in which you achieve fulfillment. Read the example below to get an idea of how to create your list. This process may take several tries to complete, so find a comfortable and peaceful place in which to do this. If you prefer, speak your thoughts into a tape recorder, then write them in a notebook or on your computer. Expect to learn some amazing and wonderful insights about yourself. Once completed, check to see if you are honoring these internal motivators in your current lifestyle.
| Internal Motivators Worksheets |
- As a child, my earliest recollection of feeling a sense of fulfillment, self-recognition, or actually being successful was:
- The person or people who most positively influenced me was/were:
- What they told me, or how they treated me, or how they made me feel was:
- In grammar school, junior high and high school, I remember feeling a sense of fulfillment, self-recognition, or actually being successful was:
- The person or people who most positively influenced me was/were:
- What they told me, or how they treated me, or how they made me feel was:
- In college, I remember feeling a sense of fulfillment, self-recognition, or actually being successful was:
- The person or people who most positively influenced me was/were:
- In my 20's, I remember feeling a sense of fulfillment, self-recognition, or actually being successful was:
- The person or people who most positively influenced me towards success was/were:
- What they told me, or how they treated me, or how they made me feel was:
- In my 30's, I remember feeling a sense of fulfillment, self-recognition, or actually being successful was:
- The person or people who most positively influenced me towards success was/were:
- What they told me, or how they treated me, or how they made me feel was:
- In my 40's, I remember feeling a sense of fulfillment, self-recognition, or actually being successful was:
- The person or people who most positively influenced me towards success was/were:
- What they told me, or how they treated me, or how they made me feel was:
- In my 50's, I remember feeling a sense of fulfillment, self-recognition, or actually being successful was:
- The person or people who most positively influenced me towards success was/were:
- What they told me, or how they treated me, or how they made me feel was:
- Among my relatives (parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, stepmother/stepfather, foster parents, etc,), the person(s) who influenced me most, positively or negatively were:
- ...because he/she encouraged or supported me by his/her positive/negative (actions, feelings, attitudes, self-esteem, communication skills, artistic abilities):
- Among the friends I have had throughout my life, my friend(s) influenced me the most when he/she encouraged or supported me when:
- The teachers, coaches, spiritual leaders and mentors (both in and out of work) who made the biggest differences in my life are:
- ...because they encouraged or supported me by or to:
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Examples of One Person's Patterns for Fulfillment and/or Success:
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- I always achieve my goals no matter how trying my circumstances, somehow I pull through.
- I am successful because there is always someone to mentor and/or support me to my next level of growth, whether they naturally appear or I seek them out.
- I am successful when I have big challenges to stretch my creativity and keep me challenged.
- I am successful because I seem to be above average in my ability to produce results.
- I am successful because I am a leader and a mentor, and others do well who work with me.
- I am successful because tough assignments or life circumstances don't stop me from achieving. If it can be conceived and I believe in it, I will achieve it.
- I am tenacious and diligent in achieving my goals.
- I feel good and successful when I maintain new challenges throughout my work.
- I am successful when I am mentoring others, whether it is a part of my job or not.
- I am happiest when I am playing music in addition to my job.
- I am successful and personally fulfilled when I maintain a spiritual path.
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| Now create your own summary of internal motivators and success patterns. Use similar phrases as above, for example, I am successful or personally fulfilled when.... Make your list as long as you like. It's for your personal use. |
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