Just look around you, its a beautiful world out there. Life is wonderful provided you have the time and can afford to sit back and enjoy the simple pleasures of life. This is a feeling that hits us every now and then. And then when we realize that we have to be confined within the walls of an office, doing work that has no scope for imagination, we end up depressed. Every job loses its charm after some time if nothing is done to keep the job interesting. To make things worse, there are too many distractions around us. We end up thinking , this is not the job that I wanted to be doing. And when we realize that we will be doing this same job probably till the end of our employment days, we will want to scream. However, there is a correlation between self improvement and motivation in your career.

How to take advantage of this to increase your career motivation? It is a human tendency to get bored after time, with something whether it's in a career, relationship or something else. When we start a new job or career, for the first couple of weeks we are like the peasant boy who walked into a new palace. Every thing in the job or career is new and interesting and our interest is completely captured. We try to learn things as quickly as possible in the job and are eager to impress and prove to the world and ourselves that we are perfect for the job or career. But after a few months we get used to everything and slowly the job or career begins to lose its charm.

We get bored with our work and start looking for greener pastures. It is at this stage in our job or career that procrastination starts raising its ugly head. If the tasks that we are doing are repetitive ad monotonous, the picture becomes bleaker. Along with this, if the job requires that we remain on our toes all day long, then the future is sealed. It is in such situations that we need to keep ourselves motivated in our job or career.

Speaking from a job organization behavioral point of view let us take a look at what motivation is all about and how to improve it. The human brain as I mentioned earlier is a virtual warehouse of energy. There is nothing that we cannot do once we put our minds to it. Yeah, sure, all that has been proved time and again, but along with it comes a string attached. The same brain is easily distracted. In fact our imagination is probably the one thing that can travel faster than light. And so it is not an easy task to keep the brain occupied in the same task for an extended period of time. If the job is monotonous the task becomes more difficult and if the job is demanding and involves a lot of pressure to keep time, then you are done for.

Motivation can be thought of as the process of channeling the surplus energy of the brain towards a definite goal or purpose.

So how long can the human mind focus on the same thing? Studies have shown that the maximum attention span of an average human being is just 45 minutes. 45 minutes? So much for those meetings and discussions that lasted for three or four hours! No wonder nothing much comes out of such meetings. In all likelihood most of the audience conked out after the first 45 minutes and after that focused their attention on staying awake.

If you have a good boss or supervisor, then the task of keeping you motivated rests with them. But even then, you have the responsibility to keep yours self motivated and believe me, self motivation is the best motivation because it comes from within.