How to get motivated | study motivation tips
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before the start of a new semester our
motivation levels tend to be at an
all-time high especially if it’s around
New Year’s and we’re setting goals and
resolutions and making all of these
glorious plans about how we’re going to
completely change as people and have
perfect habits and never procrastinate
again and then unfortunately as the
actual semester starts usually at least
one to two weeks in we start to realize
that motivation levels have completely
dropped and not only do we not feel like
doing any work
we’ve just realized that we have an
entire whole semester in front of us
that we have to go through and the end
of the semester is months and months
away so as our classes pile up and the
work gets more and more difficult
our motivation levels get lower and
lower and all of our resolutions and
goals tend to just go out of the window
and we go back to being our old selves
and pretty much just doing the bare
minimum that we have to do to survive
so how do we get motivated enough to
keep ourselves going and not ever really
fall into a slump or periods of
procrastination and basically just
overall stay motivated and work hard
throughout the entire semester
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so the first thing that you need to
realize when it comes to self motivation
to study is the fact that grades in
themselves are not really motivating at
all unlike things like work or cleaning
where we usually get money where we can
spend the money on things that we like
like clothes or food or with cleaning
where we get instant gratification where
we can actually enjoy our clean rooms
and our organized space unlike those two
examples grades don’t really impact our
life in any shape or form sure we have
our a z’ sitting in some database
somewhere so whenever we study really
really hard and get a certain grade we
don’t really feel anything really
emotional we just usually get relieved
or happy we didn’t completely fail but
it doesn’t really impacts our life or
change your life so really give us any
emotions and the flip side of this is
the reason that we’re so motivated to
constantly spend time on our phones
watching something or being on social
media or hanging out with our friends
rather than study the reason is we get
instant gratification in that moment you
are spending time with your friends or
watching a movie and feeling good you
experience the emotions of happiness or
laugh at something funny immediately in
that moment not three months later or
five years later and it’s that
realization that each grade is not
really the end goal but just a stepping
stone to a larger goal that is really
important to first realize that reads
and themselves don’t wanna Vedas so even
when we say our goal is to get straight
A’s it’s just not enough to get us to be
motivated and work really really hard
right now so once you really realize
that you’ll start to realize that you
need something a bit bigger than just
grades to motivate yourself to study so
in a sense our brain and our motivation
is just like an onion yes an onion and
our motivation levels have layers so as
you peel each layer off you’ll start to
realize that the real motivation that
will get you through all of your weakest
moments and when you feel lazy there’s a
lot deeper than just great
so I recommend doing this in a journal
or on several pieces of paper since it
can get pretty detailed depending on how
many questions you ask but pretty much
the first thing that you need to do to
figure out how to motivate yourself is
to keep asking yourself why you’re doing
what you’re doing so after you set the
goal of I want to get good grades you
then you ask why do I want to get good
grades why do I need good grades
what will they help me accomplish and
then once you’ve answered that question
you can ask why do I want to be at the
top of my class or why do I want to get
into a good university and as you start
to question why you want to do what you
want to do you’ll start to understand
what your motivations are and how your
brain works and where are you even going
in the first place which is really
important because if you want to be
motivated you need to first know where
you’re going and what are you trying to
motivate yourself to do if you’re going
into a career path that you completely
hate and you’re only doing it just
because it’s cool or because your
parents think it’s good the truth is you
might just be self sabotaging yourself
and subconsciously trying not to get
good grades because you simply just
don’t want to be doing what you’re doing
and it might be better to just
acknowledge that and realize well maybe
I want to do something else in my life
and work really hard at that rather than
this path so there can be a lot of
reasons why you’re not feeling motivated
and it could also be that you just feel
lost and you don’t really know what you
want to do with your life and it feels
so overwhelming that you don’t want to
think about it and you just instead
procrastinate and don’t really work hard
and answering these questions can also
help you realize what do you want to do
with your life or if even things like
getting into a good university would
maybe help you figure out what you want
to do you can even look at it as the
more classes you take and the more
opportunities you try and get good
grades at the more you realize which
paths you want to follow and which
subjects are interesting to you versus
which ones are not and as you can see
all of these questions can go in a lot
of different ways so there’s not really
one specific way you can do this but
just keep asking yourself different
questions and trying to figure out how
your brain works and what you really
want from your life and if you’re doing
what you’re doing for yourself and what
you feel really passionate about or if
you’re just doing it for
people which might not actually be
motivating to you at all it’s at this
moment that you realize what’s really
important to you whose opinions are
important to you maybe you really do
respect your parents and you really love
them and you agree with them that the
certain path that you want to follow is
important so you do want to also make
your parents proud and that can also be
a great end goal and it really just
depends on you and your situation but
the most important thing is to finally
eventually get to that last line where
you have that end goal and that end goal
doesn’t have to be you know exactly
where you want to be 20 years from now
actually that might not be the best end
goal because it’s so far away that it’s
not even really visible to you and you
don’t really know what its going to be
like so it’s not very motivating the
best end goals tend to be pretty recent
so the next major step in your life for
instance it could be university or it
could be entering into a certain career
field something that can really imagine
and envision in your head and see and
imagine yourself there
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the reason that this final thing that
will make you really excited and
passionate and is that you need to have
that vision of your future self
constantly playing in your head on a
daily basis so you know write it down in
your planner in your phone think about
it maybe every single night before you
go to sleep or write it down in your
journal and have it constantly running
in your mind the more you start thinking
about that future version of yourself so
for instance if it’s you at a top
college the more you start to realize
that each step that you’re taking
towards that end goal is super important
each grade each assignment each test
that you give is really important and
just a small drop into the larger goal
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the problem with our motivation levels
is that usually what happens is we get
sucked into today and we’re just
focusing on I have to get an A on this
next assignment I have to do this I have
to do that and we feel unmotivated
because we’re just focusing on how much
work we have to do rather than why we
need to do the work and where are we
actually going that way the more that
you focus on your future end goal the
more you start to break out of your
laziness and procrastination and you
feel more and more excited that you’re
getting closer and closer to that future
goal rather than just drowning and all
the work that you have to do now and it
also really helps you get out of a slump
or any situation where you start to feel
like your bad habits are taking over and
all of these questions might take a bit
of a while and it’s definitely something
that you might not be able to do in one
to two days
it could take even up to a couple weeks
to month but it doesn’t take too much
time just think about each question
until you feel really confident about
your answer and just keep breaking it
down more and more until you finally see
a version of yourself that you would be
really proud of and passionately feel
like this is the best version of you
that you can imagine at a certain stage
in your life and that’s it I hope you
guys enjoyed this video and found it
interesting and helpful this technique
has definitely been really helpful for
me so that’s all I have for today’s
video
and yeah bye guys
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