What Motives You?

There is a saying that "you can be the creator of your own destiny" and the motivation is the key source to make yourself to become the ceator.

Motivation is very important when you want to achieve something. Whatever you do, without motivation, there is no way to achieve the goal.

I, too, always thought that motivation is reallly to keep myself working forward to reach my goal. Hoever, not until college that did I even have an actual goal to achieve.

In my middle school and high school years, I simply thought doing "good enough" in school will get me into college. Yet, as time passed and when applying to college has approached, I realized that just by doing good enough would not give me any good results.

As I entered Syracuse, I had a strong goal to come with, which was to get into Newhouse School of Communication. This was a strong motivation for me. Because I had to get good GPA at the end of the frst year to get into this school. The only thing in my mind was grade, grade, and grade!

This is my motivation. Whenever I get good grades, instead of becoming lose and complacent, I become more motivated to keep on the track and continue to bring out good works next time. Also, if I get a bad grade instead, then I once again become motivated to do 200 times better the next time to cover up my poor works.

This Exploring Rewards Chart gave me a perfect way to record my motivators and keep myself reminded with them. These rewards that I get after accomplishing something will give me a stimulus to become more motivated to work harder. Obviously, my high - cost reward is good grades! If I get good grades, as I said previously, I will become motivated to continue the same work. My low - cost reward is learning new materials. Although it is good when I learn new materials and I do feel accomplished, but because my main focus is on the grades, I do not become as motivated when I learn new materials. The no - cost reward was accomplishing the assignments. When I complete an assignments, depending on the how much of the effort I put in, I feel relieved and accomplished. The result of the assignments is what motivates me, however, not really the work itself.

In conclusion, I learned that I get motivated not much by others but by my own work. The motivation will continue to push myself over my limits to reach my own goal and I am sure the feeling I get will be tremendous when I reach it. Motivate yourself guys!