What Drives

Motivation
Interest in the subject
Knowledge
Willingness to be someone
Inspirational guide
Culture and Environment
Friends and Relatives
Society

Student Perspective
WHO CAN
MOTIVATE
ME?
But what is stopping
me?
De-motivating me to
go-ahead?
People
Places
Unpleasant environment/working
conditions
Things that irritate you, sapping your
energy

De-Motivators
Successful Struggling
Students Students

 Discover their  Have little sense

dreams providing of purpose,
them with a passion, or drive
passionately felt in their lives.
life purpose and
consistent
motivation.

Self-Motivation
Successful Struggling
Students Students

Commit to their Wander aimlessly

dreams, from one activity
visualizing the to another.
successful
creation of their
ideal future.

Self-Motivation
 Successful Students Struggling Students

Design a compelling Tend to invent their

life plan, complete lives as they live them.
with purposeful
long- and short-
term goals.

Self-Motivation
Discover Your Dreams
1. What roles have you chosen for
your life?

2. What dreams do you have for

each role?
What is YOUR life all about?

What will catapult you out of bed each morning and keep
your energy surging throughout the day?

What will give you peaceful, contented sleep at night?

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING THIS LIFE !

What do you want to have, do, and be???

Creating Inner Motivation

1. Commit YOURSELF to your dream. When you
commit to your dreams, you program your brain to
look for solutions to your own problems and you
stay committed to your dream even when times are
rough.

2. Visualize Your Dream

a. Relax
b. Use present tense – Imagine yourself
experiencing success NOW.
c. Use all five senses.
d. Feel the feelings of YOUR success.
Committing to Your Dreams
 Goals help make dreams become realities.

They provide a game plan by which your life can

be scripted.

Design A Compelling Life Plan

Effective goals display five characteristics:

1. Dated – Specific deadlines for achievement.

2. Achievable – Goals must be realistic.
3. Personal – Goals must be what YOU want for yourself-
not what someone else wants for you.
4. Positive – Goals must focus on what you want rather
than what you don’t want.
5. Specific – Goals must be stated in specific, measurable
terms.

Goal Setting: DAPPS

 SUCCESS

YOUR LIFE ROLES

YOUR DREAMS IN EACH LIFE ROLE

YOUR LONG-TERM GOALS FOR EACH DREAM

YOUR SHORT-TERM GOALS FOR EACH LONG-TERM GOAL

YOUR Life Plan

What characteristics will you need to display in order
reach your goals?

Claim these characteristics by stating each of them

for yourself in the affirmative.

Live your affirmation.

Believing in Yourself:
A Personal Affirmation
Live your affirmation by:
1. Realize that you already possess the qualities you desire.
2. Give power to your affirmation by repeating it over and over
until it becomes as familiar to you as your name.
3. Say your affirmation while looking at yourself in the mirror.
4. Be vigilant about other words you use to describe yourself.
5. Use your affirmation when life tests you.
6. Record your affirmation on a loop tape.

Living Your Affirmation