What makes you motivated? Why do you do your HW and write papers and prepare for tests? Why do you practice shooting a basketball or playing the piano? Does your motivation come from the outside (grades, SAT scores, teachers, parents, coaches)? Or does it come from inside, some place inside you that makes you work harder, practice longer, go farther? Is one kind of motivation better than the other?
Dong Jiayan(Angela)
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ELL Journal
Mr. Griffin
January 23rd, 2015
My motivation
In present-day society, no matter how experienced we are or how much we have accomplished, it’s extremely significant for us to use a bit of motivation in order to work harder, practice longer and go farther. As the saying goes, “if we wait for the motivation to show up, we won’t show up.” Therefore, it’s quite necessary for us to seek for some suitable motivations that contribute to our success.
My motivation comes from some places inside me. As a saying goes, “no ideality, no dream, no power.” Dreams, as the positive energy of life, always motivate me to work harder and go farther. I have always dreamed of becoming a great stock picker for the reason that I hope I can be like my father, who builds up his fortune by cannily playing the stock master through accurate calculations. Therefore, I constantly keep a consuming passion for every class associated with finance. For instance, I always finish my homework efficiently, ask the teacher questions actively and prepare for tests carefully in my AP Calculus AB class. Additionally, it’s universally acknowledged that the process of learning is not all plain sailing. Although sometimes I still fail in some important exams after the careful preparation, I never feel passive or give up easily because of my dream. It is my dream of becoming a great stock picker that motivates me to march forward courageously when encountering inevitable obstacles. It is my dream of becoming a great stock picker that motivates me to be far away from my parents and study abroad even if sometimes I feel quite homesick. It is my dream of becoming a great stock picker that inspires my potential and strength fully.
Additionally, when it comes to how inspiring dreams are, many other cases can be given. J. Ruskin, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, once said: “Living without a dream is like sailing without a compass.” Dreams are the lamps to our feet that direct us to success. What’s more, dream power motivates us to change the world. For example, Neil Armstrong, who participated in the Apollo program in 1969, once said: “That’s one small step for a man, but one giant leap for mankind.” In addition, Martin Luther King, who kept fighting for human rights, gave a speech, “I have a dream”, on August 28, 1963. He said, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”
All the above facts go to show that dreams play a significant role in motivating us to work harder, go farther and change the world. Just imagine how motivated we would be if only we all march forward courageously in the direction of our dreams.
What motivates me? There are too many aspects that affect my whole life. They are my parents, my dream and my brother. The story is, when I was in middle school, I used to be a naughty kid. My parents couldn't do anything to make me study. Actually, I liked to study computer science and like to create things but I felt none of the subjects I studied at school was useful for me. But since I failed the mid-term exam, my parents were very sad and my father didn't even talk to me. I was depressed. I was thinking, what should I do, after a day thinking in the room. I decided to study abroad, that was the best choice for me because I didn't want to study anything at school in Vietnam but I wanted my parents to be proud of me. At first, it was hard for me to get here because my parents' income couldn't afford me to go here. And then I found a contest named ISEF, Intel Science and Engineering Fair. I bet my life, I put everything beside, except the contest. I thought of my parents and my brother's future. I didn't want him to be like me in the past. I succeed, I applied to TA and got a scholarship. Now, I'm doing very well at school and following my dream. So the best answer for this question is me, my family and my dream.
ReplyDeleteMy motivation is that I am in love with boats so if I want to have a boat in the future I need to work hard now, I need to get good grades ( and that doesn´t mean that I am just studying for buying a boat, I am studying because I want to go to a good university and have a good job)
ReplyDeleteI think all motivation are the same because is not the motivation is the fact of that whatever the motivation is, you are going to fight for it so they are all the same, some are harder and some are softer but they are all the same
Nicole Ren:
ReplyDeleteMy motivation is myself. Because I truly know the consequences of not doing homework on time. If I don't do my homework early, I'll stay up late at night to do it. And I will feel tired and depressed the next day. And I'll look terrible and feel like don't want to do things, so I will do my homework late at night again. And staying up late also makes people looks fatter! Also, doing great things just make me feel great. Reading, Running, and practicing my skills can all make me happier. So, if I want to see a better me, I have to work harder. That is what we called motivation.
I get motivated because I want to have a good future and do something when I am older. My parents motivate me on having good grade so I can go to a good college. I also do my homework because if I don't do it my teachers and my parents will kill me, most of the time I don't like school and all that stuff but my friends motivate me everyday I see them , they remind me how I have to have good grades and improve every day.
ReplyDeleteMy motivation is the future I thinking everyday which job I'll get or when I am going to live .I'm trying to have a good grade because I want to go to college . I want to be a personal trainer so I'll the best I can .One of my best motivation is to live in USA in my future I know I can do it. Before a game in Basketall only listening music make me more motivate to play .I have a lot of things to do before my dreams come true .
ReplyDeleteMy motivation is myself. I want to go to a good college and I want to have a good job in the future. So I must have a good grade, My parents also want to see a good grade, if I want to get a good grade I must do my homework and prepare the test. The other reason is in my opinion if I learned this thing I need try my best to do it well. So that's why I do the homework and prepare the test.
ReplyDeleteSomeone makes me motivated. I do my HW and write papers and prepare for tests for my grades, then I will have higher SAT scores, so I will go to a better university. And I practices playing the piano, guitar for myself. I do everything for myself, to let myself become a better person. But that all come from one person, who makes me wanna be a better me.
ReplyDeleteMy motivation is myself and my dream.I do the homework and write papers or do some sports,
ReplyDeleteThose are for my grades.If I have good grades,and I can go to good university and I can better to develop myself,then find a good job. I can realize my dream,and help people that need help. I think motivation is very important. It likes energy in your heart to bring you go forward,and to realize your dream.
I am not a very conscious person, I think the thing that makes me progress most is my father's exhort. He teaches me a lot also demonstrates me a lot. I his exhort, I notice that HWK and go to school is not my job, but the thing that I have to do it consciously. He can give me the best education and can give me every thing I want that he can give me, but there is something he can not give me, like my dream and the life I want, and the life is making by my hand not my parents. I notice that I should have a dream and work hard for several years. Although after 5 years I did not get my dream, I make it let me closer 5 years. The thing that I am studying and learning are my own thing, nobody ca steal the knowledge. With our age, the thing that makes us motivated become less and less, at last we need progress ourselves.
ReplyDeleteActually, I really don't know what is the most important motivation to support me to keep going. Family's expectations? Friends' hope ? I don't think so . After thinking seriously, I realize those factors might be very important ,but they are not the most important one . My goals or what I want to do is the most important one. Our life should control by ourselves . I have known a lot of people , their parents make plans for themselves. Which college they will go? Which job they should take ? Their parents already did everything to them . In my opinion, parents can't do anything for you , we should have ability to make decisions by ourselves. I like make decisions by myself. Before I come to America, I want to be a lawyer , this is my final goal . After I made the decision, I start to prepare for college entrance exams. I know I am not good at English, so I signed up for after class lessons. If I am not understand the question, I will ask teacher again and again . Parents and friends can give us some suggestions,but they should not make decisions for us . I think what I want to do is my most important motivation.
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ReplyDeleteI’m not a sport person and all my interest is about art. Honestly, I hate languages and have no talent on learning languages. I had not known how to speak yet before I was two and half. But I have talents on diagram and colors. My parents told me before I can talk, I had already knew how to painting at wall. I like to draw things with rich details and significance. I knew it's the best for me, from inherent. All the motivation of my interest is from my inherent and truly like.
For academic studying
While all parents want their children to enroll in programs with better teachers and facilities, but the number of key schools in China is limited. I was studied at my city’s key school for eight years before I came to the United States; most students in my school are talented and working hard. The truth is the students in the key middle school got pretty good grades, for instance, one of my classmates got 109 points in TOEFL and 2100 points in SAT I test, who is one year younger than me! At first, I was keeping the good position at the classroom group’s ranking. But as the time flying away, I realized that it's hard to keep the leader position without the additional classes after school. I became one of the students did not take any additional classes in my school, about 95% students in my home city were taking more than three additional classes after regular school. My ranking declined to 212th from the 21st position. In generally, I'm not a confident person and I was scared by the rapid rankings.
The things make me motivated which also were the reasons made me decided to studying at the United States at December 2013 : I cannot adapt the high pressure education in Chinese school and it's hard for students who don't take any additional classes to get a good grade in college entrance examination; I want to prove that I can have a better future even I don't take the additional classes; I want to learn architecture or design at college and the US college have best architecture professional courses in the global. Furthermore, I realized it's hard to study independently without help; therefore, I am trying to do my best in academic classes for seeking a better education.
My motivation is that I want to get the good job in the future. However, if you want to get good job, you need to go good university. The good university needs good grades. GPA is very important! So After school, I do homework everyday. If I have quiz or test, I will prepare for that, review all notes. The good university also like student with many skills, so I took piano class and practice songs. Learn something for yourself, the good university, the good job and the future.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes me motivated? This is a question that no one has asked me before. The motivation that I have in sports, homework or while I prepare for a test comes from inside.
ReplyDeleteWhen you want to reach a goal the motivation has to come from inside in order to get it. There ain't something out there that is more powerful than your own mind, I'm sure that if the motivation comes from inside we will "get to the top of the mountain".
Basing this hypothesis in my personal experience if I want to get a good great in a test or a quiz I need to be motivated in order to get this grade, in Spain to go to college you must have good grades or you won't get accepted and since I want to become a successful lawyer every time I need to study I picture myself in college doing what I want to do my whole life.
Additionally I am a wishful thinker and a dreamer and I strongly believe that motivation is the most important piece in the puzzle of success. Positive motivation is what pushes me work, sometimes the negative consequences of doing something is what makes me do it for example the negative consequences of not studying for a test is failing.
Another real life example that I could explain is my motivation while I'm in a track competition. I'm a competitive person and I like to win so when I'm training for a competition the idea of not winning turns on my motivation to do the best of me, I try to win because I want to be the best at what I do, there is no person out there who is telling me that I must win all this motivation comes from inside.
Bearing all the above in mind motivation in terms of success and self improvement is the "gasoline", "engine" or the "energy" inside ourselves that encourages us to continue working. If being successful is your wish you must be conscious that you need to change things in your daily life. But these changes are not easy to perform, we need inside motivation to do it.
My motivation is myself. I think everything is depend on myself. For example, if I don't want to do homework,so nothing can change my mind. However, I really want to do homework,so nothing can stop doing my homework. I would like to learn more something because I can improve my life quantity and make a new friend. Now I am learning sign languages, I believe I can help people in the future, like volunteer of deaf-mute. All in all, if I want to be better,I have to work hard, and that is my motivation.
ReplyDeleteI think everybody should do their own work well. For my study, I think both of my parents and myself make me motivated. Every parents want their child go to a good university and have a good grade. My parents make me motivated too. The most common way of them is money. They always give me a lot money when I get good grade. I like math and I am very happy to do any kind of math cources. Like accounting, statistics, and so on. I like any soprts because it makes me so excited. I like group work. When I was in junior middle school, I play the basketball with my classmates everyday. I really miss the feeling between the teammate. I think my motivation both come from outside and inside. That is just according to different things. I think for some of my favourite things, the motivation comes from inside. Like the feeling that I miss. For some of other things which I dont like, the motivation just comes from outside. Like the money from my parents.
ReplyDeleteMy motivation is my future. When i play basketball, I fell I will be healthy and stronger. I want play because I love it. I want a stronger body, so I play basketball. I want to play.
ReplyDeleteFor test i want good grades , so I can go good college and my future will be more good. My future makes me past test. My motivation to get girlfriend is you will be more happy. When you have problem,she always stand with you..
The motivation is the source of the power. I don't have a strong motivation until in middle school, I join a work team for summer project.
ReplyDeleteThe project is like our ELL semester project, have multiple topics you could choose. I choose my favorite one: Natural disasters VS Human destruction. Many of my friends join me. We planned to be the best !
At first I was so lazy and pretty afraid of the long compositions we should read. I wanted to give up quickly and join other team, but two things in my mind stopped me doing it. I think that is my motivation for work.
The first part is my deep interest in this topic. I love research natural science at that time. I even wannabe a geologist ! The motivation is a simple saying in this case: If you can't do well in the work you most interest in, you can't do well in other works as well !
The other motivation is team responsibility. My friends all worked very hard. They're trying their best. I can't let them down. I can't give up. I can't leave them and escap ! I am the leader of the team. If I surrender to the project, how could the other thinks about me?
With these motivation, we finished the project and get school's award.
I keep the interest and team responsibility as the motivation for school works until now.
ReplyDeleteLife is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.My first motivation in my life is from my parents.Before I was 11,I always did what I want to do.I didn't like to think of the future.Until I get 99 in math in the final exam in 2010,everything changed.I was the first one in class and my dad was very happy.I never saw him was so happy before,because they said they didn't care my grades,I just need to be happy and grow up healthily.They usually give what I want without expecting in return.And I realized that I was so selfish.I always asked them for what I wanted.My parents tried their best to make me feel happy,but I give them nothing.From that time on,I tried my best to get good grades to make my parents happy and be proud of me.I got a scholarship in 2011 and entered in experimental class in middle school.At my age of 12,I met Wendy who also changes my life a lot.Wendy is my best friend.She is good at studying.Although we are good friends,we have different hobbies and goals.Wendy is quiet girl who likes studying,but she always afraid of trying something new.I like trying something new without thinking which always makes me into trouble.After 3 years being friends with Wendy,I learnt how to claim down and enjoy my daily life.And we found our dream job,I want to be a scientist in the future.And every time I work hard I think of my dreams which motivate me.I think it's happy to work hard for own dream.
Motivation means the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal. My words for motivation is someone or something makes you to do something.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, being motivated is neither from inside nor outside, It's both. I am not a good sport player, I am to lazy to be active. This way, lazy is the motivation for me not to be sporty, this idea is from my mind and affect my behavior, it's from inside. But to tell the truth, doing homework and finishing doing all the academic work is mostly not my own idea, a whole lot of students might have similar thought as me. This motivation can be affected by your duty for society; parents or your relative and your teachers; your dream that needs to work hard.The first two points are all from outside.it can be your parents or your teachers aspiration which pushes you to do all those work. The third point is from inside, your dream can be your motivation which strongly support you to do the work, to be able to approach your dream closer and closer.
All in all, my motivation is from both outside and inside, they are mutual, they can't leave each other to become motivation by their own.
I have a big motivation for playing football, last year I was 130lbs, but I'm 165 lbs now. Football is my dream, and it's not a easy dream. A lot of people believe that Chinese or Asian can't play football, we are not good enough. Before I came to U.S., most of my friend even my parent said I can't make it. There's also some other reason make me really want to beat American in sports, so that is my motivation. Every time I train I think about beating the American. However, i love football, doing what you like don't really need a motivation，but a desire to be the winner.
ReplyDeleteMy motivation to study is to take TOFEL and SAT tests. I want to go to college in America so I need to take test. I need to study more so I can have good score. My parent and my girlfriend want me to go to a good college. Also, my motivation is to practice for future. There are many useful things in school. For example, we learn math at school and we need math in real life when you buy things. Also, I learn English is not for take test, I learn English so I can speak with other counties' people. Also, I learn about other countries and culture. When I travel to other places, I can know more things.
ReplyDeleteMy first motivation is I want to go to good college, so I need work hard on the SAT and TOEFL, and I need work everyday to keep my GPA good. The second motivation is I want to become a businessman to keep my father’s company going, so I need learn lots of knowledge about the company. The last motivation is I want to let my parents feeling happy, when they check my powerschool.
ReplyDeleteI think motivation are from both inside and outside. Sometimes, I want to know history knowledge, and I’m interested in reading history books, those are a kind of inside motivation, but sometimes, my parents asked me to study, or I have a goal in a test or quiz, it will become a outside motivation.
ReplyDeleteInside motivation is from your heart, your mind. Like I want to improve my basketball skills, I practice basketball every day, this is a example that my motivation follow my heart,
Outside motivation is from other people or pressure, like the pressure from composition with other students, or parents ask me to study.
I think inside motivation influence me at most of time because I yen knowledge, I like flowing my heart to do decide, I don’t like people usually control me or ask me to decide or plan my future, I have my mind, I can control myself, I can follow my heart.
The mean person who makes me motivated is my dad. He was born in a really poor family and he didn't even finish high school. But he has been a teacher for 5 years and he taught every single subject. The cool things is he met my mom when he was still a teacher. In some point I was born. My dad wanted to make us live better and rich, so he gave up to be a teacher. He went to the community and do his own business. He never tells me about how he became such a successful man. But he keeps telling me about don't compare with people, never touch gamble, no smoking, etc. He started with nothing, but now he has a whole bunch of company and send me here for education. His the one who I always want to surpass. I need a lot of work experience if I want to surpass. But I can't get a job without knowledge, so I need to go to school. Follow what teacher says and do homework. Once I've done all the school life, I'll go to the community for my own business too. My dad will realize he is such a successful, but his son, even so.
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ReplyDeleteMy parents make me motivated. They are expecting a lot. I don't want them to disappointed. They hope I enter good collage. So that is why I study hard and prepare for the test. And perfect people make me motivated. When I see them, I want to be like them. So I try to be perfect. Sometimes they give me stress because if I am not perfect like them, I feel so bad. But usually they make me work hard. Last, myself makes me motivated. I always think like I should be good person. Then my behavior can change easily.
ReplyDeleteI think the thing that motivates you will change as we grow up older.When I was a kid,I always dreams about being superman,hero things like that.Then,I became a middle school student,the girl I like wanted to go to a very good school,I need to study harder so that I can get into that school with a good grade,but we finally broke up and I went to USA.And right now I am thinking about what the life will be like after 10 years,20 years.If I don't work hard right now,I'm not gonna have a good life in the furture.which means I will not be able to let my parents,family and myself live in happiness.I can't imagine what if I lose happiness because my parents really give me a felicitous life and I love this feeling,I want give this back to them when they need me to do so.I need to be strong enough to protect them!
ReplyDeleteI think one of the things that motivate me the most is computer.
ReplyDeleteFor example,if I obtain a good score in both SAT and TOEFL,than I will be able to get in a good collage which has a good computer major.And that’s what I seek for.
The second one is money.In order to get my computers.I have to earn money.And how to make money?Study hard,get in to a good collage and find a job after graduate.
So, that is why I have motivation to study.
My motivation to play basketball is I want to get attention from other people. When I was study in China, I kept play basketball everyday, I dreamed one day that I can be a basketball player, no matter in America or in China. I found that every time when I played basketball in the court, I will get lots of people’s attention, I really enjoyed that. I kept play basketball because I dreamed one day that I can be really succeed on basketball, and I can make my family really proud of me. I won’t very good at study, the only thing that I can make my family proud is I played for my school’s basketball team, form instead, basketball is the only thing that I did very well, and it’s the only thing that I can make my family proud of.
ReplyDeleteMy family make me motivated. They are expected for me. This year, I need study for my TOEFL and SAT. If I get good grade, I can go to a good university or college. They want me to go to a good university or college. They hope if I can stay in America, I can get my own house and home in America. So I need learn more whatever knowledge or in the live, that I can get a good job in the future. My other motivation is myself. I want a good future. Like someone say: everything depend on myself. If I want a good quality of life, the first thing is study right now.
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ReplyDeleteI think my motivation is from outside and inside. I don’t want to let my parents down, so they make me motivated. I use their money to meet physical needs and to learn things. And I know that I need to work hard to get good grades in either SAT or TOEFL. Then, I can go to a good college, and I will have a chance to find a good job and pay them back. I cannot merely take, but I must give as well. But I still think most of my motivation is from inside, it is just about I don’t want to be an ordinary person. I don’t want to have a boring life, and I want a juicy life. I would like to work hard when I am still young. Then I can have enough money to enjoy the rest of my life. But being a successful person is not a easy thing, I need to work hard. For now, I don’t need to face lots of challenges. I just need to focus on my school works. Over all, my parents and myself motivated me to keep working hard and staying strong.
improving my grades is my motivation. My parents and my friend make me motivated. This year, I always get a C from my Ell class, but I can't give up because I want to go to college with my friend when I graduate. My friend Christina's grades are always better than me, and my parents hope me to get a good grade from each class,so I write papers, and prepare for tests to improve my grades, and I will try to make them higher.
ReplyDeleteThanks, everyone, for your comments. I read both internal and external motivation in your descriptions of why you study, practice, and work. It's not a bad idea to ask yourself questions about what is motivating you now and then. You might surprise yourself.
ReplyDeletemy motivation level study for my future and have the work that I like, and level of sports, I play tennis my motivation comes by myself for beat every day and be better than others, no need outside motivation.
ReplyDeleteSometime, the only thing that you need is a push. My push is from my family who always just and love me whatever I do. They send me to here to find a better education and I know that. Therefore; I have to work hard to response their just
ReplyDeleteMy motivation is myself. I think if something that is good for me and I want to do. I will keep doing it. I like do everything by myself, I don't like to get any help from other people, even it is really hard. Because I always think I am an adult, and I can depend someone like parents right now, but I can't depend them in the future. So I try to do everything by myself. I like doing many things that I want to do. Because I think that is really good. I can always do really hard and try to get good grade during that process. Even I didn't achieve my goal，but I can feel a good experience from it. So it is a kind of motivation for me that let me keep doing something until I finish it.
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ReplyDeleteIn this centuryThere are too many reasons that can make people motivated, whatever the reason is, all of the reason are smae in some ways. motivated can be devided by inside and outside. For me, I call the motivated that come from outside my body---The thing that I want to have. On the other side is ---the thing that I need to have. So every day the thing that wake me up is my dream, and it also is my narture.
Everyone knows that if you want to live you need to eat. People also know that if you want to have a “better life” you need to work. So if people want to have a “better life” they need to work hard. This is a motivated come inside of a people, because everyone want a “better life”. For example, my father have 7 brothers. Because my father is one of the hardest guy, so my father have a “better life” now. unfortunly one of his brother are very lazy so his don’t have a comfortable life for now. Time is passing, his son call jiaquan work very hard, and he go to the best high school in GuangZhou(my hometown), he is the hardest in seven of us. He study as hard as he can, because he know clearly why he can’t live in a comfortable house like the his cousin, why his father don’t have a car, why he can’t go aboard. All of this is because his father’s lazy. He want to change his life like evry poor person, he want to go the best school like every successful person. This motivated is come from inside of us, come from the heart that want to be stronger.
When my little brother was young he want to buy a transformer toy, but it’s too expensive to buy. After he ask my anut several times, she agree paying for do to housework, so that my little brother can get the money form the work. After my mom start paying me money for work, he almost clean his house 3 times a day. It sounds a very tired work for now, but he tell me at that time is less tired than happy.
For me or for all the people the reason that make us mativated is come from inside and it also come from outside.
One day my music teacher Mao told all the student in class “our school is gona to start a concert, if anyone who want to join this concert, please write the name and the music instrument down on a piece of paper.” Becausewe are grade 3 all of us feel a scary to show off ouself in front of people. Mr.Mao countiune to said “whatever your skill is good or bad, just go and try it. When you go into that stage you already successful”. I decide to join this concert. Because of my garde in our class is normal so my teacher seldom notice me, I want to change their idea in this concert. When I back home I opened the piano and played it for 3 hours that day. For the following days I used as much free time as I had to pratice the piano. When I was tired I would tell my self “I don’t want to be normal, a normal life is not the life that I want.” So I want the surprise, I want the attention from my classmate. If the same music note would make me feel board, the unfrequented from my classmate is a loaded pistol, a feeling that almost kill me. Maybe I am not a good piano player, I pratice the song “Wildflowers” for the whole month, but during the pratice I don’t feel the music is boring, I don’t feel my body is tired, I just play as musch as I can. Finally when I went into the stage, the wonderful music went out. I succeed! I can play that music soomthly after that one month’s pratice. The motivated is I don’t want my classmate contiune to lgorne me, I want they notice me.
All the motivated are same in some ways is because the motivated is base on what we want, so whatever is inside or outside, whatever is materially or mentally, when we want or need something we will have the motivated.
Another girl won the game so she could choose the favor of lollipops before me. She chose the chocolate one which was my favorite. I wanted that so bad and she didn't eat it but showed off. It happened to me when I was just in the kindergarten. I was having a huge hatred but now I'm having a huge appreciation. Because from that, I learned that success is the best revenge for anything. I always try my best to do everything no matter what I do. Because I know what I should deserve depends on what did I do. And also I know how I would feel if I could not get the things that I want so bad since I didn't work hard. So if you ask me what makes me motivated, I would tell you that my answer is a chocolate lollipop.
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I hope in 2015 you can travel a lot and in the summer I hope to go Europe with my friends to know many cities and cultures because I like to know cultures that is very interesting and I like European culture that is very similar to my culture like American culture and that's why I came one year to live here to have a very good experience hope 2015 is better than 2014 !!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many reasons that can motivate me. It could be pressure, a person or even a simple thing. In these reasons, some only affect me a few days, but there is one that will follow me whole life-Responsibility.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I study?Why do I still live when I feel tired about the world? Why can't I just play until my parents don't want or can't support me to live anymore? If someday I know that my parents won't offer the money for me, and I have to live on this world by myself, why don't I start a new life from a baby? Actually the answer is very simple. I have responsibility to take care my parents when they get old. I love them and I know they will be very sad if I disappear someday, I don't want them sad or even cry for me, so I need the ability and knowledge, which can let me live alone.
I do my homework and write papers and prepare for tests, because I know study can change my life. The world is fair, everyone is equal when they born, when people first come to the world whatever they family are rick or poor, they all have chance to get a wonderful life. so I believe the world is fair. If I working hard then I will have a better life. So this is my motivate to working hard.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that motivates me is seeing my dad being successful all his years and he is a hard working man and also soccer stars motivate me because it makes me want to work hard and reach that level so that people can look up to meand I practice so I can get better at what I'm doing so that I can get better each and every day, my motivation comes from outside mostly because I look up to my dad and soccer stars, I think my dad's motivation is better
ReplyDeleteI'm think it's important to have girlfriend. Because the feeling when I stay with her. The happy from your heart, the warm. Just like a music saying when I see your face there is not a thing that I will change. Even I didn't have girlfriend now, but I'm looking for the girl in my life.
ReplyDeleteMy motivation is coming from my father. He has been so successful in his life. He has made everything from nothing. My goal in my life is him to be proud of me .
ReplyDeleteMy goal is on a good university. I hope to do my job to get higher scores. You can review the lessons I hope to get better exam results. At the same time, I like to do sports. This will make me stronger and healthier. I also like to travel. So you can see more scenery. Get another kind of knowledge.
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ReplyDeleteIn the past, i don't really have a motivation for doing good in school. I did it because i could do it and my parents get angry if i don't. Now, i don't care if my parent is angry or not. Learning new things is a privilege, i like to know more about the world and i want to explore it. In order to do that, i need to get good grades. In conclusion, knowlegde is what keep me motivated do good in school and life.
ReplyDeleteI like taking exercise very much. I enjoy several outdoor sports. Swimming in the swimming pool is my favorite. Playing badminton is also fun. I can always find a place in the park for playing badminton. Besides, I enjoy jogging afternoon. Taking exercise is good for our health. By taking exercise, we can relax our body and mind. At the same time, we can harden our muscle and have a good figure. If we don't take exercise for a long time, we may easily fall sick.
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