Motivation at Work

Whether your life is that you are in business for yourself, you work for someone else or you are a Domestic Engineer (a title often associated with those individuals who choose to stay at home with or without children) staying motivated can be difficult if not outright challenging. There are two aspects to motivation and your workplace scenario – one is from the perspective of management and the other is from the viewpoint of the employee. As part of the ongoing series focusing on Motivation, today we are concentrating on motivation on the job.

Have you identified your specific scenario yet? Most of what we will be sharing in this article you will be able to apply to your specific situation.

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Life Coach and Business Coach Karen Kleinwort is the founder Therapy in Transition and is a Certified Professional Coach specializing in the integration of her clients' mind, body and spirit into her Personal Empowerment Coaching practice. For more information, visit www.coachkarenk.com. www.therapyintransition.org, www.empowermentforme.com or contact her at success@coachkarenk.com.

Priorities ... Hard to Discern Sometimes

This morning I am sitting here trying to drink a cup of coffee to give me an energy boost while my son is napping; living on 2 hours of sleep I feel my priorities for the day begin to shift - and shift dramatically. My husband tells me to put everything on hold and go take a nap while Caden is sleeping. This is all and well but my two dogs are requiring some attention too as well I promised an associate I would get to the work requested today. So go figure the day I really want to spend my time completing a project is the day I am more exhausted than I have been since he arrived. Strange how the universe gives us cues and clues as to what is not resonating with our true purpose in life.

I have been trying to cut ties with this organization for sometime now but finding I am sticking it out to ensure I get paid my outstanding balance. I know continuing this 'old' type of work focus is not supporting my higher purpose nor my passion for life. It drains my energy and I see this seeping into other areas as well.

I had my first client yesterday post-baby and it was terrific. It gave me energy to get a lot completed in the last few days. I now realize how much I have really put on the back burner over the last three months and it is overwhelming to think of getting caught up.

My priority for business needs to be marketing - attracting new business to me; I also need to be developing a few new products. I made the decision that I am going to expand the Tito's Touch product line by the fall and to include a few infant/baby products as well. But how do I research and develop the new products while I am pulling the rest of the marketing together. Ah ... deligate!

I made a new 'friend' through LWL and her business is in offering virtual adminstration support - Jackie Nees - Integrity Office Solutions. I feel there is definitely a match here. I need to deligate more and in one area I need to make sure I am staying compliant is with my finances - monthly, quarterly and annual reports and filings. Outsourcing this I believe will be my first priority as it ultimately can give me the largest liability exposure.

Lot's to think about and now I am off to see the wizard - about prioritizing that is.

Until next time, thanks for reading and embrace your inner wisdom.

Namaste,
Karen

Getting Back to Basics

I am sitting here nursing my son and reflecting on my first day of training yesterday. I have three more full days and I am beginning to see how I needed to begin again and get back to the basic of rebuilding my business after taking some time off to be with my son.

Earlier this week we decided to inject a base amount to cover the next six months worth of expenses as a loan to the company. My intention is to build a strong enough marketing plan to provide a full client base by October 1 and then I can begin repaying the loan back with a goal of a repayment period of a year.

This has been an interesting exercise since I am having to balance caring for my son and two dogs with the business research and planning. Not the easiest when we are stilling getting him into a sleeping schedule etc. But I will survive :)

I made the decision last night that in order to make sure I get enough practice of what I am learning this weekend to offer free craniosacral sessions to the local LWL members. This acts two fold - obviously - one to gain practice hours in and two give exposure of one skill set to potential clients. Within an hour I had four women email and request a booking. So this makes me both excited and nervous all at the same time. I have a woman who will come over and look after the baby and dogs while in these sessions but the doors have not been installed and the 'decorating' of the practicum room has been on hold due to giving birth. The benefit of these four appointments is it will act as motivation to make changes in there weekly to ensure as more members come and then discuss with each other their experiences they will be noticing the changes to the environment as well. I am confident more women will be contacting me to take advantage of the offer. I am excited as this one step/approach has me fulfilling at least three goals I have set.

Jumping on twitter https://twitter.com/kmkleinwort has forced me to really become aware of how I am spending time - thanks twitter! Please follow me by the way and I will follow you too! I have decided because of this new found awareness that my blog postings will begin to be and need to be more of what my original intentions were - focus on the building of my business - what is new and exciting while giving some of my business wisdom away and offering tidbits of guidance on how to handle change in our lives.

My goal is to keep these short as well. So until next time ... embrace your inner wisdom!

Thanks for reading.

Namaste,
Karen