Motivation

Motivation

Motivation is “ The direction and intensity of one’s effort”(sage,1977)In life everyone has motivation to do something if this is from playing at a top level in sport or being the best in something or down to the little things like reading a whole book within a month. Something that contributes to having good motivational skills is goal setting.  

Goals

in everything you do in you day to day life there is a goal/ end result which is wanted to be achieved. These goes can be a short-term goal or into a long-term goal. With a short term goal these are the goal which can be achieved within a short amount of time e.g. a day to a week  to revise for an exam but on the other hand a long term goal is something that you want to achieve over a long time e.g. saving up for a mortgage for a house or wanting to start your own business but this comes difficult for people to maintain as it will be hard to keep focused and motivated as the goal is in the future and sometimes can feel like it is unachievable. But there are many different methods to keep yourself motivation this include mixing short-term goals and long term goals together so when you finish a short term goal it will offer a sense of direct and purpose for why you are e.g. you are budgeting your money or going to the gym 2 times a day to lose weight.

I think goal setting is a great way of having a clear idea of what it is you want to achieve and how you are going to achieve it both short and long term; for example I would like to of saved £10,000 for a deposit on a house in the next 5 year. 

I have had many different situations in my life where I have set a goal for myself to achieve,

For example a goal that I set for myself was, when I dislocated my knee is late 2018, I set out a goal for myself that I wouldn’t let this get the better of me and I wouldn’t let it stop me from going to the gym or stop me from participating in sport. From this I set a goal for myself to keep on going to the gym and doing the exercise to help strengthen my knee back to normal state, even though it was a very rocky journey, I pulled through and come back to carrying on at the gym resulting in my smashing some of my PR ( Personal record) in the gym and also building the confidence to start playing rugby for the university team.