One of the biggest
challenges you face with a Bad Boss is the complete lack of boss-given
inspiration or motivation. Yet only when you are inspired, will you remain
sufficiently engaged to do your best work--and succeed.
Your Bad Boss not only
won’t inspire you to your best self, prime demoralizer you’re your boss is,
he/she is completely incapable of it. No worries--you can keep the drive alive
by motivating yourself!
I came across a
wonderful idea that Benjamin Zander, college
professor uses with his students, operating in the competitive and arduous
world of classical music. “On
the first day of class he
announces that everyone has already been given an A for the semester. Their responsibility is to 1)
document why they have earned that grade in a letter written in the past tense
and 2) act as an A student throughout the duration of the semester. Giving each
student an A on the first day of class has revolutionized his students’ lives. and report in their
book that Benjamin Zander's students’
performance in the classroom and on stage improved over their previous
performance.”
Use this approach to
motivate yourself! Give yourself an A for whatever project or task you’ve been
assigned, take a minute or two to jot down why you earned that A, and then
spend the rest of the duration of that project or task behaving like a A
student.
You’ll amaze yourself at
how much easier it is to perform at your very best, when you’ve set yourself up
mentally to do just that.
Even if you have the very
baddest of Bad Bosses.
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