A guide to keeping you psyched in business.
Finding yourself feeling listless at work lately? Not feeling the motivation and enthusiasm you used to have? A sense of your mojo more than lacking and it’s more and more difficult to do tasks you had no problem with before?
If this sounds like you, and you’re wondering how to extricate yourself from this spiral, then fear not and read on.
Lack of motivation in the workplace is more common than you think and it’s just a natural part of the human condition. We all feel our batteries running low at times, question what we’re doing with our lives, and wondering about the end destination of the roads not taken in our life. Don’t worry though, there’s a definite route out of the malaise. In this article, we’ll list 5 prompts for the AI algorithm Chat GPT that will return you some sound advice on how to jumpstart your enthusiasm and get you back on your feet, ready to work again.
1. Perspective
Lack of motivation in your work usually parallels lack of perspective. You’ve lost sight of the big picture at some point and this has left you feeling somewhat adrift. Perhaps you had larger and more adventurous aspirations that have largely gone unfilled or perhaps tasks and/or colleagues at work have ground you down and feeling low.
Input into Chat GPT what you do, the nature of your business, what you’re feeling right now, what you want to achieve at your company, which productivity targets for which target audience, and request the program to write three paragraphs on what you could still achieve, both personally and professionally, if you stay on the same course.
2. Alternatives
When lacking motivation for your current professional circumstances, inevitably your mind will start to wonder about potential alternative scenarios in your life, what if you had asked that person out on a date, what if you had applied for that job, what if you had gone to that meeting you missed, etc. How would those untraveled roads in your life worked out for you differently?
Write in Chat GPT a description of an alternative you, someone weighed down and beaten by life, someone who never reached their potential, never achieved their goals, and settled into a restless and resentful quagmire in life. Tell GPT you don’t want to end up as that person and to describe the characteristics of such a person as both a warning and motivation against assuming such a mindset in future.
3. Cheerleading
It can be hard sometimes in business to see the proverbial wood through the trees. Even with successes, you feel little to no encouragement to keep going. Feeling alone amongst the workload is a surefire path to lack of motivation. But, believe it or not, you have it within you to be your own cheerleader.
Go to Chat GPT and describe your business and your characteristics when sufficiently demotivated, then ask it to provide three mantras to motivate and enthuse you, impactful statements of intent that will enliven and energize you again.
4. Superpowers
No, we’re not talking about acting like Superman or Spider-Man, we’re talking about individual powers within yourself, unique only to you! Everyone has inherent strengths, talents, abilities they were born with, but in the journey through life, many people have downplayed or forgotten them in the clutter of daily existence. Recognize and accept your own individual ‘superpowers’ and think about how to develop them further.
Return to Chat GPT and explain to it what you or other people perceive as your strengths, talents, and positive traits. Then ask GPT to adapt each of these into a corresponding comic-book superpower complete with exciting and impactful names. Furthermore, request how each of these superpowers can help me reach my goals in business.
5. Encouragement
Mood is infectious, especially in the close confines of a workplace. If you feel unmotivated and bored with your work, others will pick it up – consciously or otherwise – and it will transfer to other people, making the environment a less happy place to work in. But a leader who shows enthusiasm, motivation, energy, and ideas, will lift everyone’s spirits and push them on to greater success.
To that effect, ask ChatGPT to write an email to be circulated at your workplace wherein you thank the team for all their hard work and efforts, how you deeply appreciate all they do, but point out at the same time there’s still a ways to go in achieving a particular goal, but with everyone working together, that goal’s achievement is inevitable. Remind them of the pledges given to clients and the need to meet them all, representing the company in a positive manner at all times and in all dealings. End the email in an inspiring manner that will rally the team to increased productivity.
Just remember that feeling low and lacking motivation is temporary, that better, sunnier days always lie ahead, and hopefully this article has given you ideas on how to reach those sunlit uplands. Good luck!
