Motivation

The Motivational strategy I used this week was Academic Fears. I used this strategy in my PHI 192 class for a paper and in my ECN 203 class for an exam. I used this strategy for these two classes and assignments because I know I have trouble getting motivated for papers and for studying for exams. I thought this strategy would help me stay motivated and on task so I can write a good paper and study for exams better then I have been. For Academic Fears what you need to do is make a chart with four columns. That is what I did for both my PHI and ECN class. Then in your first column you need to write your biggest academic fears for the class and rank them. In the second column you need to write what the best outcome could be from doing good on the assignment. In the third you need to write what the worst outcome could be if you do bad on the assignment. Then finally in the fourth column you need to write what you need to do to stay motivated and accomplish the task at hand. What I found helpful with this strategy was it showed me what could happen if I do really well on the assignments and what could happen if I did really bad on the assignments. That alone motivates me to not do bad on the assignments. What also helped was the fourth column of the chart. It allowed me to reward myself for accomplishing certain tasks. For example if I finished a certain amount of my essay for PHI I would reward myself with a half an hour of T.V. This motivated me not only work on my paper but it motivated me to make it a good paper. The final results of this strategy have been real good so far. I finished my PHI paper and I think it is very well written. I am very confident about it and think I should get a good grade. My ECN exam isn't until the end of the week so I am still working on studying. I think if I follow the chart I should be pretty successful just like in PHI.