Motivation Mother Sent Straight From Heaven

Question: Discuss about theMotivation for Mother Sent Straight From Heaven. Answer: Introduction: It has been over 23 years, yet this woman has never seized to amuse me. Her charismatic leadership style, her charming personality and how witty she gets just to ensure am always kept on my toes in all I do. She must be the secret behind my immense success. Look at how disciplined I have grown to be, how well groomed I look, the good heart I look amazing! Dont I? And this reminds me of my interview during the summer holidays at the Singapore Airlines. The CEO, Mr. Goh Choon Phong could not hide his pride of my wonderful qualities. Can you imagine! He even offered to employ me as his Personal Assistant immediately I complete my course. All these wonderful qualities are from this woman. My mother, Mrs. Vanessa Choon propelled me to significant success through her motivational tactics. She must be sent from heaven. I learned how to do house chaos such as washing clothes, cooking, cleaning the house at a very tender age. She always rewarded me for doing house chaos better. As a result my elder brother Josh and I were always competing in all the house duties. We all wanted to be rewarded with the best gifts, including money, candies and new clothes. Her rewards were not only financial, but also, one could be taken for a special dinner to a restaurant of choice. Furthermore, Mrs. Choon was charismatic and everyone enjoyed listening to her. To encourage good performance both at home and in school assignments she could really praise one for doing well. She had tags designed in shiny and attractive colours marked the title of the task one did exceptionally well in. For instance, if you performed well in English, a tag written, BEST IN ENGLISH was stuck on your shirt where everybody in the neighbourhood could clearly see. Moreover, whenever either of us came at the top of our class, she would stand before everybody during school parents days and ensure everybody identified her as our mom. She could then pour all sorts of praises on you and even wanted all students to emulate her well discipline and hardworking son. She always led by example. Mrs. Choon led not by just issuing orders. Instead, she personally performed the duties she wanted you to do along with you and by so doing, she made sure that you could emulate her perfect style of doing things. Whenever you made a mistake in the course of duty, she could gladly correct you and then allow you have a second trial. However, she loved perfection on the second trial. She never tolerated second time mistakes. To ensure that we grew into responsible persons, Mrs. Choon always applied the Reinforcement theory of motivation where not only good performance is rewarded but also poor performance. Whereas a good performance attracted rewards with incentives such as money, poor performance attracted punishment. For instance poor performance in school assignments, untidiness, waking up late, and disrespect for elders and fellow children attracted stiff punishments such as one being locked up in his room for the whole day, one being barred from undertaking in their favourite activities such as not being allowed to play video games, ride a bike, and play with friends. Although my mothers styles of motivating us have seen me grow into a responsible person, there are instances her motivation styles were not good enough. For instance, rewarding us for everything we did well made me at some point a materialistic individual. I grew up to believe that for every good thing I did in life I had to be rewarded only to realize recently during my community service that sometimes we have to sacrifice for the good of others and not just for rewards. Moreover, rewards made me believe too much in quantity rather than quality. Furthermore, withdrawal as a means of motivation denied me a good chance of learning some basic lessons from friends as I would be locked up and not allowed to mingle with friends. Conclusion Motivation is a good tool to help boost an individuals performance. Individual rewards can promote healthy competition among individuals and teams of individuals in a given setting. If only individuals are rewarded based on their performance, then everyone will work harder, particularly when the incentives are compelling enough. However, it is imperative that every individual is given the right environment to work and perform to their full potential. This will give all individuals an equal platform to compete favourably. In a perfect meritocracy, in which individuals who work the hardest reap higher rewards, incentives pose minimal problems since the ground is fair for all.