The MOTIVE not the MOTIVATOR

Have you for once ask yourself the major reason behind doing things that you do. Well, for me it a critical question i asked myself every now and then. This has a major role in achieving success. Success is championing a cause which once greatly believed in either failing ow working. Therefore in an attempt to pursuit a cause, one of the major step is for one to have a self conviction about this cause and clearly define its meaning and what it stand to achieve to humanity. Any service that it intention is not going to add to humanity is a selfish service.

The reason why everyone exist is to render service to support humanity, be it personal or collective responsibilities. Sincerely speaking most of the things that human develop interest in doing is not all about self gain or driven by profit and therefore there should be need to understand the differences between the motive and motivator

Motive is defined according to dictionary as "a reason for doing something" while
Motivator is an incentive awaiting a result or proposed for getting something or a person that motivate others to do something, a person of action or a goal getter.

Most of the time i have found out that the motivator set people in action to get something done though but does not put the person in the right mind for getting such a thing done. The most important thing is to communicate the motive behind achieving a task to people and buy them in rather than proposing a propelling action or strategy that will set them in motion.

Someone will ask why?. from research, it has been proved that people can freely follow and get things done in right mind and achieving great result when they have been feeling or sense of belongingness  and people get bored when they are asked to do things which does not allow demonstration of any intellectual capacity and seems manipulating.

How will this help one to get better in his or her carreer?
Having the foreknowledge of this will always guide you in delivering your best whenever you are assigned a task, a project or given a cause to champion. It will enable your to focus on the target not the disturbance.

This is HOW it works

I have been on a paid job for a while and the same complaint I kept hearing people giving each and every time i engaged them concerning their present employment. They are never satisfied with the current pay and position. They need pay rise, they want to be promoted, they really expects the best to happen.
I have changed job four time and I had only written application letter for my first job. Now the question is "How have i been able to move from the first job to the fifth without writing application letters. One thing i found out since my first job was this, no matter how difficult a position and the deliverable of my posts had proven to be, i had always put in my best not minding the challenges, behaviors, acceptability, environment and other distraction around me. And I have been able to record countless achievement on that simple fact. severally I have been called by people both subordinate and superiors asking me how i have been able to keep the momentum. This has always been my respond, I am not working in those position but rather have decided to become someone more important than my current level. I DAILY CONSCIOUSLY WORK TO BECOME A BETTER PERSON. IT IS NOT ABOUT WHAT THE JOB CAN PAY YOU BUT ALL ABOUT WHO YOU CAN BECOME ON THE JOB. Because that will determine your success, readiness and qualification for the next desired position and pay.

Appearance matters

Let it keep ringing bell in your hear until it enters into your subconscious mind that 'HOW I DRESS IS HOW I WILL BE ADDRESS'

I witness where a very rich man dressed shabbily and entered into a banking hall demanding to see the bank operation manager. initially he was refused and he started making noise that generated to security manhandling him before the Operation manager later showed up.

The point from the above is that he is being treated in that manner because of his appearance. We need to continually work toward excellence and perfection in all that we do.

i saw someone going for an interview putting on fitted evening dress and put on a cowboy cap. it might look very fine but it does not suit the occasion that he is attending. every occasions have its unique dress code, most especially a formal setting.

most people lost job opportunity just simply because of the way they appear at the interview room.

Do not put on what your friends put on because it goes well on him/her but try to find out what fits you. the more you seek for help the better you become. for me people that dressed nicely attracts me. learn colour combination so as to avoid colour mixture(riot).
Are you a fat, slim or average sized person? that is not a problem. talk to designers or fashion advisers, they are out there to make you look good and smile when you look at yourself in a mirror.. looking good is a big business you know!





Till i see you again

Keep excelling

Get hired "catch employer's attention"

How to increase your employment opportunity

Comparing the rate at which people are haunting for job to  the rate at which they get hired, one will see that not up to (5/100) five in a hundred get hired at the end of the day. What is the major reason? Does it mean the jobs advertised are not available? Or the numbers of people applying are more than the job that are available?

Firstly, not all the job advertised on the internet are genuine, but nevertheless there are still sites that posted real job openings while most sites generated vacancy and use the unemployment opportunity to drag traffic to their web pages. Whichever way, this is not the main reason for written this post. To answer the second question asked above, surely everyone knows that unemployment is a big problem around the world nowadays and this is a prove that the numbers of people applying for jobs supersede the available job. The question now is in spite of all of these, how do I get hired?

Employers are not ready to employ liabilities, anyone that will not be able to render  quality service. therefore they have adopted system or process that automatically make selections easier for them and make applying for a job difficult for job seeker. How? 
Aside from acquiring a degree from any well known institution, there are many other value added courses and certification that are out there which if acquired and matched up with exceptional skills, qualities, character and values will give you a pedestrian to wining in the market place, remember that you are not the only one that hold the degree or higher certificate.the only thing that will differentiate you from thousands of job seekers is your additional qualities and knowledge.

view of this courses or certifications are Project Management, Information Technology Cisco Networking, Microsoft certifications, comptia certification and so many more.  in addition to this, try as much as possible to get certified by the regulatory body that govern your profession, this will give you great edge over others.


Having put all of the above in place, this little tip will also catch employer attention while making selection. Make sure you dont just have a static CV and cover letter, take five minute to review employer requirement in term of skill and adjust your CV and cover letter to accomodate these because your CV and cover letter are the first impression about yourself. 

till we meet again,
keep excelling