Bonus Points: Motivational Talk: Get Ready for your Professional Life&develop your Motivations

The talk was given by Mr. Khachia, an AUI Alumnus, BSCS, MBA, PMP, SAFe certified with 14 years experience in project management. Currently, he is occupying the position of project director in Capgemini, Casablanca,Morocco. The talk took place on 30th, October in Al Akhawayne University, building 2.

The talk was more as a discussion where every one had the chance to talk, share, and think of things that can motivate him/ her in for the professional and academic life. The talk started by defining the word "momentum" that is the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity. the put this word in the context of our talk, momentum is then throb by which we progress in our life. Our motivation to achieve a goal is very related to this momentum, it can go very high or very low. Than we talked about how we can get motivated to do something either a master degree, get a scholarship, get a job....There are two main types of motivation: Intrinsic: represents all the things that motivate you based on internal rewards OR extrinsic motivation: depends on external rewards. we should specify the source of motivation and keep it in our mind whenever we want to give up on our goal. Also, the objectives should be smart and achievable. Motivation is not enough to pursue our dreams, but we have to make sure that the sources needed to achieve these dreams are available and if not then we should make a plan to provide these sources first. En general the talk was very interactive where everyone had the chance to share, talk, and ask questions.