The semester is coming to an end and I’m not sure how you feel but I think personally, my brain wants to explode. We just got back from Thanksgiving break but I cannot wait until the next two weeks are over and have a LONG break of NO schoolwork! It’s beginning to get really tough to stay motivated and complete all of my work, but I know I have to stay focused and end this semester strong and successful. So, in order to do so I picked a strategy called Exploring Rewards, it is a strategy to finding rewards that are powerful enough to improve your motivation, and let me tell you now, after doing this, it got me so pumped if I am able to fulfill my highest-cost reward!! My sister is a senior in college and is a traveling maniac, everywhere she has traveled and studied has been somewhere that speaks Spanish, so therefore she is now an expert in Spanish. Currently she is studying in Peru and I am going to visit her in January. Could be such a good feeling to go there and surprise her with all this great Spanish I’ve learned in just one semester! That is a reward that doesn’t have real cost, just a personal feeling cost to me. The big high-cost reward for me in finishing out this semester strong would be receiving an A in Spanish, which yes, is a 4 credit class! That would boost my GPA up, which can help me out in so many different directions! I know that it is a hard last two weeks but I’m telling you, do this for each of your classes (I did it for all of mine!) and it will help motivate and hype you up to wanting to kick butt and end the semester strong!! Just follow my directions to do so and you can look off of my example from Spanish to help you get through it as well!
Make a chart like mine, I like to use colors because I am a visual learner and it helps me stay more organized! So first with one class, write the no-cost rewards, second write the low-cost reward(s), that are things that are rewarding but not enough for motivation, and the last box write the HIGH-COST REWARD!! It should feel good writing that last box because it is an accomplishment and a reward! I did this in a way of being reminded to not give up, so if you have somewhere, hang that chart up in your room for the next two weeks of school, and when that last day comes, you should be able to take that/those charts down with a smile of success!!
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR FINALS EVERYONE!!!!!! Happy almost Winter Break!
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