Motivation

Motivation is kind of a hard subject. Everyone is motivated in a different way and sometimes it is hard to find out what that motivation is. I have had many times in my life where I have been motivated to do things and other times when I have not been motivated at all.

I had a manager once that would constantly tell everyone that if they didn't do their job well that he had a pile of applications on his desk to replace us. This didn't really motivate me to work hard and be a good employee. I am usually self motivated, especially when I'm doing things that I like to do. When I'm working I want to do a good job, I want to take good care of my patients. A manager telling us that we are easily replaced didn't bother me because not doing my job well was never an option for me. Also, I believed him to not be telling the full truth. We weren't fully staffed, and we never were the entire time I worked there. In my mind that meant that he didn't have people to hire, so his "motivation" didn't work.