How to Become Self-Motivated for Work in 4 Simple Steps

Do you hate work? Are you struggling to be motivated?Oh, how we love weekends! We get to spend time with family and friends, and do some service for church or community.

- Kirby Llaban

Then Monday comes—the traffic, the paperwork, the meetings, and the deadlines . . . how dreadful! We wish it was Friday right away so we can be happy again to enjoy the weekend. Can you relate with this? Let me tell you my story.

After sixteen years of doing full-time lay missionary work, I went into business. As I started to build my training consultancy, I found myself struggling with motivation and I had a lot of doubts. I loved serving in church on weekends but I dreaded work on weekdays. I felt lost. I lacked passion for my business and was confused with my purpose. As a result, clients were hard to come by and it started to affect my family. I knew I needed to keep myself motivated because I’m the provider.

Then one day, I came across a book by Bishop Oscar Cruz, The Call of the Laity. He wrote about a threefold calling. It got me curious. He mentioned that our baptism is our fundamental call (our call to holiness or the call to be in heaven). Then our vocation (for me, marriage) is our complementary call. Then the work we choose to support our vocation is our