How to motivate others? How to motivate people? How to give encouragement in tough times, how to motivate someone who lacks motivation and inspiration. Life can get hard sometimes, and everybody could use a little motivation and encouragement. First be sure the someone we are referring to really need motivating and that your relationship is such so that you don’t cross boundary lines when figuring out how to motivate someone. You don’t want your good deed to be punished. Be sure that you are doing a good deed, and not something else. A kind word or a kind gesture could go a long way in learning how to motivate people. Bringing a smile, being motivating to someone who lacks motivation. Helping someone get out of a rut, breaking away from a daily routine in a positive spontaneous way can be motivating. Just being present, being there to listen, to be an ear without judgement or an opinion. Sometimes people just need someone to listen. A gift just because. Someone might not verbally express their lack of motivation to you, you may be able to tell that something about this person is off and that you are concerned. A just because gift can be a real asset when figuring out how to motivate someone. The lack of motivation will most likely not be verbally expressed to you. Through your relationship, you know what this person likes, is in pursuit of, is probably succeeding or failing at. You have to find ways to be motivating without being intrusive or possibly embarrassing. The goal is to motivate not discourage. Offer to help wherever you can. If a struggling business is the reason for the lack of motivation, volunteer your time in a way where it does not come across as pity. Help with a smile and encouraging words to uplift and build up a person ego. Be that voice of motivation that you recognize is needed. But give it the same way you would want to receive it. If you know you like to keep things to yourself, don’t like to speak on things, then keep your motivation to yourself and don’t speak on it just do it. If you know you would feel embarrassed, then take notice to embarrass. Don’t be overbearing, don’t be a know it all, don’t become a therapist suddenly overnight, just be a friend, the friend you have always been. Help to revive the vision, to re-imagine the goal, to dream again. Help to find the love and the passion, the flame that has gone out. Help to re light the fire. Help, not push. Help, not judge. Help, silently without selfish intentions, just help.
Finding out how to motivate others can be challenging depending on the situation, if you are trying to motivate a group of people to complete a task then your approach would be totally different. When your success is dependent on the actions of others and motivating others become a necessity, then again, the approach is different. But kindness and a kind word remain the same. Push too hard, then interest as well as motivation can be lost. Driving home the goal and the satisfaction that the group will receive from accomplishing that goal can be a good way to motivate others.
Be understanding, encouraging and empathetic. Use kind words always aimed at the end result and the goal, and you may be on your way to learning how to motivate others.
“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change the world.” -Norman Vincent Peale
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
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