Motivation!

This week we learned about motivation!

Motivation is the driving force that helps people achieve different goals.

Motivation is an interest

ing term because to everyone in means something

different. To me motivation could be knowing if I ace a test, I am going to treat myself to a large piece of chocolate cake. However, to someone else motivation could be knowing they are going to go to Mexico if they run a mile a day for a month straight. Everyone has different ways to get themselves going but as long as we do it, it doesn't matter how.

This week I tried the strategy ACADEMIC FEARS and EXPLORING REWARDS. I wrote down my biggest academic fears for my MATH class. This helped show me what my biggest fears were, what the worst possible outcomes were, and what the best were.

This motivated me because I was able to push myself to reach the best possible outcomes and see what I needed to do in order to get there.

I then tried the strategy EXPLORING REWARDS for CLS. This really motivated me because I wrote down something I could reward myself that costs nothing, something with a low cost and something thats expensive. I was able to show myself that if I do well on the tech assignments, I will get to see my boyfriend, my family, and my friends. This motivates me to work extra hard on these assignments because these people are very important to me. I was then able to push myself to work hard on the projects because I knew that if I did well on the proj

ects, I would treat myself to a nice meal. In addition, if I did well in CLS

overall, I would go a nice vacation!

This strategy definitely helped me motivate m

yself to do my work this weekend! I wrote down a separate list of things I would treat myself to if I did all my work and succeeded this week in all my courses!

- Insomnia cookies

- Go home this weekend

- Get my nails done

- Get my hair done

I will definitely use these strategies again when I am anxious about classes or want to push myself to succeed!