The Psychology Behind Motivation With Audrey Tang

Audrey Tang is a Chartered Psychologist and the author of  "Be A Great Manager - Now".  She is a CPD Accredited speaker, trainer, and qualified FIRO-B and NLP Practitioner.  She currently practices as a Development Coach and Training Consultant with her training consultancy CLICK Training.  Audrey is the resident psychologist on The Chrissy B Show and speaks at National and International conferences.

Prior to Training and Coaching, she was a secondary school drama teacher and Head of Psychology (QTS), later progressing to Programme Manager for vocational qualifications in Supporting Teaching and Learning, and Childcare, Learning and Development within Further Education. She is still involved with the arts through her community theatre group, CLICK Arts. 

As a coach and a trainer, one of the biggest motivations for me is seeing people achieve. Whether it's in a class or whether it's after a number of sessions, to see somebody able to do something that they never thought they could do, and to be able to go off and do it, is my main motivation. 

Motivation is the reason why we do something, why we take an action and when we're enjoying something, when it's fun and pleasurable we don't really need much of a reason because it's intrinsically rewarding. We tend to lose motivation when things get hard and the sad part is, the more intelligent we are, the more we are able to convince ourselves that we didn't need it anyway. That can be a real danger with motivation. A lot of the time we lose motivation because things get a little bit tougher and we need other reasons to continue doing them. 

One of the key ones happens when people don't see results. As adults, we expect to see results straight away. We start something and expect to be able to pick it up straight away and when we don't meet those standards we lose motivation. 

Me! I'd like to clarify that though! Happiness is a state, it's not anything we can achieve, it's something that we can choose for ourselves at any point during our lives. Some people who've got lots of money and everything else might still be unhappy because they haven't chosen to appreciate it or they haven't chosen to be happy about it. Only we can do that.