<p>Since it's summer, I honestly have been completely lazy :-\ I haven't done much school related work and I've put off all academics to the side for far too long for these few months... I realize how much little time I have left to study for the ACTs, do the college application process, write my essays, etc. I'm highly aware of this. However, I just can't get myself to do them and I don't know why :| I tell myself I'll do it later, but it just never happens ... </p>
<p>I admire people who have great self motivation and I wish I had their skill :-</p>
<p>So how do you self-motivate yourself?
Maybe your techniques will work for me.
Hopefully ...
:)</p>
<p>well what i do…
If you dont do it now, you wont be prepared, then you will do badly (either on the ACT or college apps), then you wont get in/ do horribly, then you wont have a job, you will be poor and homeless, nobody respects you, then you go back to your high school reunion and see people way dumber then you and way more successful because they started before you.</p>
<p>Wow mccormick, depressing much? It could work, but I’m not that type of person.</p>
<p>I daydream what I want to become and then look at what I’m doing now and how I can improve and increase my chances of accomplishing those dreams. I aim high though, so I guess you have the great risk of ultimately failing and become a very depressed/suicidal adult.</p>
<p>You have fear.
You say you never let yourself quit.
You think of the situation you’re in and see all the bad in it. And say you don’t want to be here.</p>
<p>I motivate myself by thinking about going to an ivy league school, owning a beautiful house, and making a lot of money. I think about being a CEO or a prominent lawyer and how successful I will be. Also, I have a few quotes that keep me motivated:
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, dream for tomorrow.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”</p>
<p>I keep rejection letters on my desk to remind me not to slack off. I also copied out onto pink Post-Its something the best teacher I’ve ever had wrote to me when he left. It’s along the lines of, “You can do anything you set your mind to.” Clich</p>
<p>^ Doesn’t that hurt? The rejection letters, I mean.
I don’t have any ‘rejection’ letters (because, well, long story). However I could finds documents which prove the times I have ‘failed’ ie. major tests I have flunked, high positions I was not able to get, awards I did not win.
Still for me that could potentially make me give up, since I’ve already gone past the halfway line of ‘failure’ why not just go all the way? Haha, that’s bad
I would say, think of all the places you could get to. And you don’t want to miss the opportunity. So when you know what you want (but don’t spend all day&night daydreaming about it) tell yourself what you need to do, who you need to become as a person, and I don’t mean a drastic change- just the qualities you could improve on, and start working.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, it hurts a lot. I guess for me, it makes me remember how bad I felt when I first read them, and all the things I could have done to turn that rejection into an acceptance. Right now I have two, and I’m aiming for that stack to not get any higher =)</p>
<p>^^ Hanana -Yeah, I tend to daydream a lot. I always pretend to SEE myself there, but DO nothing about it. It’s just hard sometimes when you’re in the summer and you just don’t want to do work :(</p>
