M-o-t-i-v-a-t-i-o-n

M-o-t-i-v-a-t-i-o-n!

Time to get motivated everyone! What is Motivation?

Motivation can be defined as an action(s) that moves someone towards a desired goal. 99.9% of college students lack the motivational skills that drive us to complete the simplest of tasks.

In a couple of weeks, fall semester will be coming to an end. In these last few weeks it starts to become very stressful and challenging for almost every student to try and stay motivated. For me I have noticed that as the fall semester comes to an end and assignments and exams are coming up to a close, I have become even LESS motivated in all of my courses. It is even harder for me because I am an athlete and have practice everyday along with class and this becomes extremely tiring for me.

Fortunately, this week in CLS we are going over different motivational strategies to help students stay motivated and succeed in their courses. The two different motivation strategies we talked about were Exploring Rewards and Academic Fears.

The first strategy I used was Exploring Rewards. For his strategy I made a chart with three different categories: 1) high-cost rewards, low-cost rewards and no-cost rewards. For each of the sections I wrote a different reward in each of these sections that I think will motivate me to help get what I need to get down.

For the second strategy, which was was Academic Fears. I used this strategy to help motivate me to study for my EAR exam. I always HATE studying for exams because I can never concentration on the material. For this strategy I followed the four steps need to keep yourself motivated through you school work. 1) List three academic fears and then rank each of these fears, 2) next, pick what fear you believe is the worst and then describe why its the worst for you. 3) For the last step put what you steps you need to take to help you finish your task and describe it.

Final Results

Using these two strategies did help me stay motivated with my studying skills. Although, it still was hard for me to stay focuses at times but instead I told myself in my head that it is something that NEEDED to get done and I thought of what the results would be in the future. I still need to work on my motivational skills but I am taking it one step at a time. Eventually by using these skill with school work and throughout my daily life, I will be able to look back on these strategies when I am feeling unmotivated and u

se these to better myself to get my stuff done!

Study guide questions I made for myself to help prepare for the exam