Self-motivation: How to Motivate Yourself

Motivated people are pro‐active and enthusiastic about what they are doing. High intrinsic motivation is often considered a prerequisite for creative and satisfactory work commitment. Motivation refers to a state in which action is taken because of an inner drive towards a flow experience. When motivation drops, people feel driveless, dissatisfied and become frustrated. From the outside, this is often interpreted as an attitude of disengagement and is mostly judged in a negative manner. Internally, it is rather perceived as a stuck or lost state and it´s not always easy to get out of it. Nevertheless, everyone who is in well‐balanced contact with their capacity of resilience wants to find ways to recover from it and to regain motivation. Motivation has different facets and is a complex issue. It can be the basis of an individual´s self‐leadership, but also in the context of leadership supervisors expect their employees being motivated to perform their tasks. Therefore, it makes sense to look at this topic from different angles. Let´s start with the focus on self‐ motivation: What do you need in your life to stay be pro-active?

Topics

• Get familiar with the concept of self-leadership

• Identify your personal and social core values and follow them

• Know your comfort and your panic zone

• Create an inspiring intention and develop a corresponding attitude

• Understand the difference between flow and stillstand

• Reserve time for deep work

• Set appropriate priorities

• Act responsibly and be aware of your limits

• Listen to the signals of your body

• Join safe and nourishing ecosystems

Dates

The course will take place in person at the GIGA in Hamburg on the 10th October 2024, from 9 am to 5:00 pm. Please note that this course is GIGA internal only.

About the lecturer

Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi has been working as a coach and a trainer for scientists and physicians at university hospitals since 2008. For one decade she worked as a biologist in the field of medical basic research and gained a lot of experience in setting up and successfully leading scientific projects. Before becoming a coach, she led a project group for the Collaborative Research Centre 490 in Mainz as a PI. In terms of her current work, she uses her “insider knowledge” from her time in academia combined with her resource-oriented and diversity-related coaching perspective on individuals. For 10 years she was a member of the Coachingnetz Wissenschaft e.V. Her group coaching workshops inspire, motivate and empower the participants in order to boost their self-confidence regarding upcoming personal, social and work-related challenges.