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Motivating the Motivator

by Adam Zack — October 27, 2021

The only one who can motivate you is you.

It’s hard to be a leader. I have a list right in front of me that I look at most days with 10 reasons why it’s hard to be a leader. (If anyone wants to see it, just shoot me an email azack@dwgreen.com). As a leader, we are constantly working to inspire, teach and motivate our team. It’s a never-ending job that has got increasingly more difficult, challenging and stressful over the past couple of years. Good leaders do it naturally, and the feeling of pride and accomplishment as you observe your team members thriving is the reward. But as the chief motivator, what happens when you let stress and frustration into your picture? How do you motivate yourself? I think it’s incredibly difficult once you’ve lost your motivation to get it back. I think that sometimes it’s cyclical, and the pressure is short lived, soon replaced by that great feeling you get when your team spiritually lifts you up by actually practicing the motivational techniques you’ve shown them over the years. The only one who can motivate you is you, and maybe sometimes we are a bit hard on ourselves. But other times we need a strong self-kick in the shorts reminding us of what we have to be thankful for and how much our team has motivated us over the years.