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Goals Setting & Motivation

Goals Setting & Motivation. Academic Support Unit. Adapted from: Practicing College Learning Strategies 3 rd edition Carolyn H. Hopper. Why Have Goals?. Do you stay up-to-date in class assignments? Do you easily lose interest in your classes? Do you give up in difficult classes?

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Goals Setting & Motivation

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  1. Goals Setting & Motivation Academic Support Unit Adapted from: Practicing College Learning Strategies 3rd edition Carolyn H. Hopper

  2. Why Have Goals? • Do you stay up-to-date in class assignments? • Do you easily lose interest in your classes? • Do you give up in difficult classes? • Have you set short term & long term goals to assist with your college success? • Do you accept responsibility for your study/Performance? • Do you complete daily assignments

  3. What skills do you need to be successful in college? • Skills in Test Taking • Skills in Note Taking • Skills in Research • Skills in Writing • Skills in Memory & Concentration • Time Management • Critical Thinking

  4. Reasons students fail college • Have un inadequate concept of the amount and quality of work required • Place too much importance on other activities • Have a vague or no long-term goals • Fail to assume responsibility • Choose and inappropriate major • Have not mastered the language • Experience interference from psychological problems. • Make little effort to overcome poor background • Have chosen the wrong college

  5. Elements for a Useful Goal • Specific • Measurable • Achievable • Realistic • Time-lined

  6. Be in control of your life • You must control time and not let time to control you. • To control time: • you must be motivated • You must have a goal • You must have a plan • You must take action

  7. Motivation: Feeling less than motivated all too often? Do you feel lazy and there is nothing that is keeping you going on, something that fuels you? Do you sometimes just set in there and wait for miracles to happen?

  8. Your three Main Drivers in life • Have a dream, a big dream. • Have a cause. • Be Hungry.

  9. Simple Ways into Motivation • Make a deal with yourself. • Ask uplifting questions in the morning. • Do something small and create a flow. • Compare yourself with yourself. Not with others.

  10. Simple Ways into Motivation • Remember your successes • Act like your heroes. • Remember to have fun. • Get out of your comfort zone. • Don’t fear failure. • Take it easy

  11. Simple Ways into Motivation • Figure out why you are doing something, e.g. Why you are at college? • Take The Positivity Challenge • Cut down on TV. • Argue. • Do some research on what you are about to do.

  12. Simple Ways into Motivation • Find out what makes you happy. • Listen while you are on the move. • Think outside your box. • Make each day count. • Play a role

  13. Life is Worthwhile if You... • Life Tip 1)First, life is worthwhile if you LEARN. • Life Tip 2)Life is worthwhile if you TRY • Life Tip 3)Life is worthwhile if you STAY • Life Tip 4)Life is worthwhile if you CARE

  14. Make use of your creativity Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. “Work spares us from three evils: Boredom, vice and need”. Voltaire

  15. Give your self more flying lessons “If you don’t hope you will not find what’s beyond your hopes”. St. Clement of Alexandra

  16. Success is Easy, But so is Neglected • A story of a highly motivated person: “People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not….” The answer is simple:

  17. The answer is simple: • The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. • I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They found it easy not to. • I found it easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to. • I found it easy to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get around other successful people. They found that easy not to.

  18. The great 4 L’s Live Love Learn & Leave a legacy.

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