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Modern Mentor

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Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Management, Careers, Business

4.3726 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2008

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Modern Mentor is hosted by Rachel Cooke. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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0:00.0

Steveer Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.6

Today's topic is using passion to motivate you at work.

0:13.7

Hello, Steveer. This is Reed. I've been listening to your podcast and they're great.

0:18.0

And I have a question for you for your podcast. Every time whenever I go to work, I really just lose enthusiasm before I get there.

0:26.6

So this may be more of a psychology question than a organizational question.

0:31.6

But I wonder if you have any tips about how to maintain a spark or maintain that special spark.

0:37.2

How about that?

0:38.3

I maintain enthusiasm for work before you get there.

0:42.3

When I lose that enthusiasm, I lose energy and it seems to sap my organizational ability to or my effectiveness.

0:50.3

All right, thanks. Bye.

0:51.3

Read, the quick and dirty tip comes from Monty Python's movie Life of Brian.

0:56.9

Always look on the bright side of life, or at least find where you're passionate, and concentrate on that.

1:03.8

Find what you love about your job. Connecting to your true motivators can be powerful.

1:08.8

19-year-old Ryan Alice was passionate about entrepreneurship.

1:12.4

He started a little company and by age 23 was running at $10 million per year.

1:18.5

I met him through a mutual friend and asked his secret.

1:21.1

He brings passion to everything he does, in part, by keeping the passion front and center.

1:26.7

Think, don't worry, be happy.

1:29.1

Trite, I know.

1:30.2

But it works.

1:31.4

When you're driving to work,

1:32.7

chances are that you're going over all the ways your job sucks.

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