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Paul Laohapiengsak

Blog: Motivation

Motivation is what push one to achieve a certain target or goal.  For this reason, it is important to identify one’s motivation for a certain target.  Therefore, this way one will be more motivated to work harder.  For myself, I am mainly motivated to do well in classes for several reasons which are getting good grades for self-satisfaction and self-esteem, make my parents proud, get into good graduate school.  From CLS 105, there are several motivation techniques that I tried and it has been successful.  This includes, academic fears and exploring rewards.

The first method that I use is Academic Fears.  This method basically identifies an individual’s fear, which is behind one’s lack of motivation.  For this reason, by identifying one’s fear, one would not only feel less safe but is more motivated to work hard.  The steps that one takes toward Academic Fears are 1. List three academic fears and rank them 2. Choose one’s worst fear and describe what need to be done 3. Describe the best thing that can happen and 4. Hat one need to work on in order to make the best results.  Shown below is my Academic Fears.  It worked well and helps me motivate so much more when preparing for a exams, or small quizzes.

Academic Fears	Worst Outcome	Best Outcome	Action Needed
1. Not doing well in exams	Not Get into Whitman school of management from getting below GPA 3.3	Get into Whitman school of management	1. Prepare and go over notes or PowerPoint before every lecture
2. Miss MAT 284 lecture			2. Take notes and review everyday after class
3. Do not understand concept in PSY 205			3. Attend office hours to clarify concepts that is not understood

 Exploring Rewards is another motivation tool that I apply to my working routine.  It is a stimulus that helps improve one’s motivation.  The key to this method is to find the reward is strong enough to convey one to study hard.  The steps toward this strategy are to identify 1. No-Cost rewards 2. Low-cost rewards and 3. High-cost rewards.  Shown below is my Exploring reward, it worked quite well to distinguish what motivates me best.

1.     No-Cost Rewards – Get into Whitman School of Management

2.     Low-Cost Rewards – Get a new phone

3.     High-Cost Rewards – Get a car

For myself, getting into Whitman School of Management is what motivate me the best.  I am a person who is satisfied with what I possess.  Therefore, a high cost reward does not really motivate me.  With the motivation tools I am able to identify my fear as well as what motivate me best.  I would encourage every college students to tryout one of these motivation tools because motivation is the first step of what get you going toward a target.