Looking for ideas to keep up your motivation during a job search or other long term project? Kurt Nelson, PhD and I talked about this and the “problem of the middle” on Episode 61 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast, which is available on all major platforms as well as the Reframe & Reset Your Career YouTube channel and my website, link in my contact details.
Kurt told me
“A job search can feel overwhelming, the big goal at the end is this job and that journey to get to that goal can be really long.
What we know about motivation is that big goal can be really inspirational at the beginning and really inspirational when we get close to the end of it but it wanes in its motivational ability in the middle and it’s called “the problem of the middle”
… part of what you can do from a motivational perspective is to figure out how can I break that big journey down into milestone steps and what are the things I need to do
and instead of looking at that bogey of the job as the end result. I have these steps in the process that I can then get excited about.”
Check out the video clip below or for the full podcast interview, click here.
