An engineer’s guide to unlimited motivation in a corporate job

Without quitting your job. That would be too easy 🙃

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucio

Bullshit.

No matter what you do for a living, it will have parts you like and parts you don’t. Motivation comes and goes, but all great achievements require consistency.

How do you say consistent even when you are not motivated?

There are days I’m not motivated to work, and the same happens to other people. I spent time discussing this with my mentee.

My strategy seems to work for me and others. So I decided to write about it here.

In this post, we’ll learn to create our motivation. We’ll have it in our control, not at the mercy of external conditions

💎 Find your “why”

Some people are changing the world for the better and that’s their motivation. Their “Why”.

For others, their job is just giving them money. If they can attach a deeper meaning to it, they’ll see work through more positive lenses. For example, working to prov…