Motivation and Goal Setting: Paving your way to success

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Motivation and Goal Setting: Paving your way to success Applying Cognitive Personality Theory to Your College Experience

What is motivation? Motivation is the inner drive for success. Motivation is much easier to sustain if you have clear dreams and goals. Without clear goals, its easy to bounce back and forth between other people’s ideas of what you should do with your life.

Goal-oriented Questions To help define your goals, ask yourself these questions: What are my dreams for the future? What do I want to be? Why am I attending college?

Intrinsic Motivation Intrinsic motivation is the drive within you to accomplish a goal or task. You choose to complete a task because it has personal meaning for you and gives you pleasure or satisfaction. It will be much easier for you to accomplish your goals and be successful if the motivation comes from within you.

Extrinsic Motivation The drive that comes from someone else or an external stimulus. For example, a parent or friend may do or say something that motivates you to make certain choices. However, if you are only motivated by someone else’s desire for you to make an A in a class this semester, it may be more difficult for you to study and accomplish that goal.

Locus of Control Your locus of control is where you place the responsibility for events that happen in your life. If you have an internal locus of control, you place responsibility on yourself and feel that you have control over events in your life. If you have an external locus of control, you place responsibility on others and feel that events beyond your control influence your life.

Internal v. External It is better to have an internal locus of control because you believe that you create and control events in your life and can change things for the better.

Internal Locus of Control Students with an internal locus of control: Believe that academic success depends on how hard they work Try to make the best of a situation Believe they create their own destiny Think positively about life and school work Rely on internal motivation

External Locus of Control Students with an external locus of control: Believe that events are due to fate, chance or luck Look for someone to blame when things go wrong Believe teachers give grades, instead of students earning them Think negatively about life and school work Rely on external motivation

Victim and Creator language Creators are people who take full responsibility for their behaviors and beliefs and have an internal locus of control. Victims do not take full responsibility for their behaviors and beliefs and see themselves as victims in life. They have an external locus of control.

Victims & Creators Victims: Creators: Make excuses Seek solutions Blame others Complain Believe they “have to” do things Pretend their problems belong to others Give up Creators: Seek solutions Accept responsibility Take action “Choose to” do things “Own” their problems Take control of their choices

For example: A student did poorly on last week’s test: A creator would admit that he/she did not study as much as he/she could have. A victim would blame the professor for not explaining the material thoroughly.

Setting Goals Setting clear and concise goals will help you stay motivated when times are tough. It is helpful to write down both your long and short-term goals.

Long and Short-Term Goals Long-term goals provide you with the big picture for your life. They should be things you want to accomplish in a year or longer. Short-term goals are stepping-stones toward accomplishing your long-term goals. For every long-term goal, several short-term goals should be set to help you maintain motivation and stay on track.

S.M.A.R.T. Goals Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Timely Goals should be: Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Timely

Specific Goals should be clear and to the point. When setting a specific goal, you know exactly what you need to do to accomplish the goal and gain more satisfaction from doing so.

Measurable If your goals are not measurable, how can you be sure you are making progress toward them? A measurable goal provides a time frame and a foreseeable outcome.

Achievable Goals must be achievable and realistic for you to accomplish them. If your goals are too high, you will not be able to achieve them and your self-esteem may suffer. If your goals are too low, you might not gain satisfaction from achieving them.

Relevant Goals must be relevant and important to you. Effective goals are your own, not someone else’s. For example, students often find it difficult to achieve goals they set that are important to their parents but not very important to them.

Timely Goals should include specific deadlines. A short-term goal usually includes a deadline of a month or two. A long-term goal usually has a deadline of one to five years.

SMART examples: Earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from EKU in four years Earn a B+ in ENG 101 by the end of the semester Acquire five or more successful student behaviors by the end of the semester Join at least one campus organization or club by May.

Goal Setting Tips: Write down your goals. Post your goals where you can see them. Reward yourself for accomplishing your goals.

Roadblocks Roadblocks to achieving your goals can be broken down into internal and external barriers. Internal barriers are roadblocks you create for yourself. External barriers are roadblocks that come from an outside source.

Internal v. External Internal roadblocks include bad habits, poor time management, lack of self-confidence and negative thinking. External roadblocks include other people who think you can’t succeed at something, few jobs available in your field when you graduate, becoming sick and sitting out a semester.

Internal v. External Problems arise when you let external barriers become internal barriers. For example, if your father does not think you would make a good accountant and you let that prevent you from pursuing accounting, you’ve turned an external barrier into an internal one.

Detours, Forks, or Dead Ends? What happens if you don’t reach your goals? Do you view “failure” as a detour, a fork in the road or a dead end? Failure can be a valuable learning experience. Try to view it as a detour or fork in the road, rather than a dead end.

Reevaluating goals If you’re at a detour or fork in the road, think about what you learned from the experience and reevaluate your goals. Did you use SMART principles in setting your goals? Ask family or friends for help in reaching your goals. Try to predict barriers that may get in your way, and develop a plan for overcoming these barriers.