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Talk to your family and friends who motivate you and make you feel good.
Sharing your ideas help you to get motivated.
Types of Motivation
Let us now learn about types of motivation.
Internal Motivation: LOVE
We should do things that make us happy, healthy, and feel good. For example, when you perform on your
Sports ay function and you learn something new such as exercises race and other sport events.
External Motivation: REWARD
Many times, we do things because they give us respect, recognition, and appreciation. For example, John
participated in a 200m race and won a prize. This motivated him to go for practice every morning regularly.
Building Self-motivation
There are four steps for building self-motivation:
1. Find out your strengths by identifying your likes, dislikes, and things that make you happy, for example, singing.
. Set and focus on your goals by fixing your targets and using all your energy to achieve them.
. evelop a plan by planning and setting time-line to meet your goals.
. Stay loyal to your goals by continuing to work towards them even in di cult times or stress.
SELF-REGULATION: GOAL SETTING
Self-regulation refers to self-acting or self-operating. One’s self or
inner ability to control and manage emotions, thoughts, behaviour
and energy state, so that one can produce positive results for life is
self-regulation. eveloping this uality re uires emotional control-
wise introspection and sustaining focus.
Goal setting is an essential factor in deciding how to live your life
where you want to be or how you want to be in the future.
Person who is good at self-regulation can cope well with changes and
ad ust to different situations easily. e takes the changes positively
and sees them as exciting opportunity for self-development.
How to Set Goals?
e can use SM method to set goals. SMART stands for:
S ecific: It involves a specific and clear goal. e need to answer uestions like:
“ ho all are involved in the goal ” “ hat do I want to do ” “ here do I start from ” “ hen do I start and
finish ” “ hich means do I use ” “ hy am I doing this ”
Not a specific goal: “I would like to learn music.”
Specific goal: “I would learn classical music by oining music classes after my school everyday so as to
participate in the music festival.”
Measurable: A measurable goal answers questions like:
“ ow much ” “ ow many ” and “ ow do I know that I have achieved results ”
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