My Personal Reflection

Self motivation to me is the ability to motivate myself, to find a reason and the necessary strength to do something, without the need of being influenced to do so by another person. When I am, feeling motivated, I can easily achieve what I want, and equally when I feel de-motivated, everything seems to be much harder to attain.

Basically I think that self-motivation is imperative to have for everyone, if you all want anything to be done. Self-motivation plays a very important role in my life. Self-motivation is the act of giving one’s own person incentive or encouragement to do something. In other words, it’s the way to get me moving, as well as to keep going when the going gets tough. Different people motivate themselves in different ways. I have learnt that before you can motivate yourself, you have to know what drives you.

As a student, self-motivation begins in school as I learn how to complete assigned tasks on time, especially those that require time outside of the classroom. You cannot expect the teacher to be the motivator all the time, so therefore, you must learn how to motivate yourself. Without that ability, your life will be much more time-challenging since you will not have a clue how to complete projects without a predominant reason to do so. Managing school work and CCAs can be very tiring, stressful and challenging, especially when it comes to have lots of projects in my hands to settle and to manage stress from family and other prevailing factors on a daily basis. But through this project on self-motivation, it really does help me a lot as to cope with all that.

I think that having a positive self-talk is one way to keep myself to be self-motivated at all times, on the other hand having negative self-talk will make me un-motivated and most probably result in failure. Every time when I encounter difficulties in this LMS project, I would have this negative self-talk telling me to just give up. This is when I use positive self-talk to tell myself to stay strong and to carry on.

I can build on my motivation for this LMS project by getting results. The more the hard work I put in, the more results you will get and the more results you get, the more you will be motivated to get more. These things all build on one another. Making small progresses throughout the project would make me motivated to go further to complete the given task.

Once I have set my goals, I will make sure that I try my very best and make sure that I visualise the end result, before working toward my goal so that I can see and the benefits that will be a my source of motivation. There is nothing to stop anyone motivating themselves to achieve goals that will make their lives better and you can do it to if you adopt the right mindset.