Your Central Motivations
Discovering What Makes Your Heart Sing

• How Can I Keep Motivated at Work?
• Can You Guess What Their Main Motivators Are?
• Link to the Motivations Quiz

If you are bored at work, worn out at the end of the day, and see your work as a never-ending pile of to-do's that stress you out, maybe you are in the wrong type of work.

Paula is a talker, who thrives on social interaction. She loves her job as a Sales Rep for a company selling Health Products. She has regular contacts whom she visits each month, and they look forward to seeing her. They love her bright smile, and the energy and enthusiasm she brings to her work.

Before she got this job, however, Paula spent 10 years sitting in a cubicle, in an insurance company, processing insurance applications. She couldn't wait for the weekends, when she was finally free to socialize.

After the company downsized, and she was laid off, one of her friends told her about the Sales Rep job. She decided to try it since she didn't have any other prospects.

Then she discovered a whole other side of the work world - a new exciting world where she blossomed because of her social skills. She loves her job, and has become the Top Sales Rep in the company. For her, the work is effortless and natural, and the performance bonuses keep rolling in.

Every job has built-in motivators, triggers that tap into your personal motivations, and make it easy for you to do the job. The secret is to find out what yours are, and then match them to the right job for you.

Working in a job where you can be yourself is a joy, because it brings out the best in you. Your skills are valued, people appreciate you, time flies and you advance easily.

Most occupations incorporate more than one type of motivation in order to do really well in them. Do you know what your Central Motivations are? When you know what motivates you, you can match them to the right job for you.

If you can find a type of work that uses 2 or 3 of your motivators, you'll have won the lottery in terms of finding a perfect job match!

On this site, you can discover what drives you, what fascinates you, what type of work energizes you. Once you know that, you can really get going. . .

1. Susan is a singer. It brings her great joy to touch the hearts of those who hear her sing. She has a great voice, that people love to listen to. Possible jobs: singer, doing voice overs, giving presentations, working in the entertainment field. Check out Motivation #7


2. Terry easily takes charge wherever he is. He just naturally knows how to bring out the best in people, and they trust his judgment. He has managed several successful projects. Project Management is a natural for him. Look at Motivation #2.

3. Selena, a petite powerhouse, has a strong desire to take on major challenges, and overcome obstacles where the odds are stacked against her. She has an insatiable desire to prove that she can survive no matter what. Soon, she will follow her dream to strike out on her own, and travel the world, taking on the challenges of working overseas for a non-profit, where she sees herself helping others with major challenges. Perhaps Motivation #17 and Motivation #15 are at work here.

4. Donna has a natural bent to organize. Whenever her company needs someone to organize an event or a party, Donna's exciting ideas and sparkling enthusiasm gets everyone motivated. A good organizer is needed everywhere. Donna will find many doors open to her. Would Motivation #14 fit Donna?

These Links Point the Way Through
Steps 1, 2, 3 & 4

Links to Step 1 -
The 5 Career Tests on This Site

1. Discovering Your Work Style Preferences

• Your Work Style Preferences Overview
• Work Style Preferences Inventory
• Work Style Preferences Descriptions

2. Choosing Your Work Values

• Your Work Values Overview
• The Work Values Inventory
• Sam's Story
• Karen's Story

3. Identifying Your Personality Style

• Your Personality Type - An Overview
• The Personality Test
• FAQS On Personality Type

4. Pinpointing What Motivates You

• Your Central Motivators - An Overview
• Your Central Motivations Quiz
• Central Motivations Descriptions

5. Making Your Multiple Intelligences Work For You

• Multiple Intelligences - An Overview
• Multiple Intelligences Inventory
• Multiple Intelligences Descriptions
• 60 Ways to Boost Your Intelligences
• The Quick Job Analysis Guide
• Career Chart

Links to Step 2 - Career Exploration

Getting Started - Opening the Door to Exploring New Careers

• Step 2 - An Overview

9 Frequently Asked Questions on Job Searching

• Get the Answers Here

How to Do Job Research - Your Search Tool Links

• Familiarize Yourself With the Major Occupational Groups


Links to Step 3 - Getting into the Nitty Gritty

How to Do Job Searching

• Step 3 - An Overview

Paper Research

• Help For Doing Paper Researching

Online Research

• Help For Doing PC Researching

People Research Links

• Help For Doing People Researching
• How to Prepare for the Information Interview
• 20 Interview Questions for Informational Interviews
• Sample Phone Scripts for Information Interviews
• Writing the Interview Thank You Letter

Participation Research Links

• Help For Doing Participation Researching
• Open Houses in the Workplace &at Schools
• Job Shadowing
• 21 Sample Job Shadows in the Workplace
• Temping & Volunteering as Participation Research
• 50 Basic Questions Checklist For Job Researching

Links to Step 4 - Taking Care of Your Career

Ways to Make Yourself More Valuable to Employers

• Managing Your Career
• Taking Care of Your Career
• Arriving in Your New Career