What鈥檚 in Your Toolbox?
Have you ever had one of those days when you just can鈥檛 seem to get motivated? When you can鈥檛 seem to find time for yourself, your work, family AND schoolwork?聽 I think it鈥檚 safe to say that we鈥檝e all had those days, especially as adult learners with busy lives trying to balance so many things at once.
As a Success Coach, I talk to students every day with the goal of supporting them in developing skills that help them to succeed not only in school, but in life. 聽I鈥檓 curious about how they turn things around when they鈥檙e struggling to motivate. I ask them this for two reasons:
- to help them pinpoint what works/has worked, so they can re-use that tool in the future, and
- to learn from them so that I can share these successful strategies with other students.
Many of our students already have an effective toolbox that they utilize on a daily basis.聽聽 Below are a few strategies I have learned from some of our students.聽 Maybe you do something similar, or maybe you can borrow one of these 鈥渢ools鈥� the next time you鈥檙e needing a little something to keep you moving forward:
- Talk the talk 鈥� expect that you will do well, say it out loud and follow up on your actions 鈥� that way, you are setting yourself up to succeed.
- Plan for it, expect it, achieve it.
- Focus and challenge yourself because you are responsible for your own success.
- Do not procrastinate, set your mind to it and just do it!
- Listen to a great song that gets you motivated!
- Choose a positive self-affirmation and post it somewhere so you see if often.
- Create your own self-fulfilling prophecy – don鈥檛 say 鈥淚 can鈥檛鈥�, instead, say 鈥淚 can鈥� and 鈥淚 will鈥�
If you have other strategies that work for you, I鈥檇 love to hear about them. 聽Post them in the comments below.
