Losing Motivation

[Tarheel Student]

We are fortunate to have people in this country who are willing to such crazy things for us all......
Thank you for the service of you both.......
cheersmate

[plutoon]

Clep 101 you are truly a gift to society! I would never go up in a plane and jump out! I'm a squid and had a bit of trouble with the ladders on board. They didn't seem to stay under me when I was carrying 200 lb boxes across the ship, lol...

[cookderosa]

Lately I have been losing motivation to do anything. I haven't been sleeping and I am so tired of school! Fall semester has started and I just don't seem to have the drive like I used to. 2 weeks in and I am regretting it. I look forward to testing out much more than I do going to classes. I used to love online classes but as a requirement for BAH the VA wants the one class I am taking. It is boring and I just don't feel like I am learning anymore.

Have you ever felt like this? How long does it last?

we all have ups and downs in our motivation, the key is to know what you can back off of. Look through the syllabus, do the high yield assignments with gusto and give the low yield assignments minimum brain space.

Case in point, I had a 16 week class that had weekly homework. It was the end of chapter type questions and took a long time- hours. The grand total for all that work (hours!) was only like 10% of our grade. Discussion posts were another 10% and the two exams each about 40%. So......I did the absolute bare minimum on the homework, never more than 15-20 minutes tops. I completed every answer (didn't want the teacher to KNOW I was a slacker) but gave any answer just to "do it" and get it turned in. I didn't care if they were all right, because the effort rewarded was tiny.
I averaged in the 70's on my homework. The point? To earn mid-70's (which accounted for SO LITTLE of my score) took 20 minutes per week. To earn high 90's on the same work would have taken HOURS. Instead, I used my efforts to study hard for my exams. FWIW, I ended up with an A in that class, but I would have taken a B or C. Sometimes school sucks, and most of the time that's enough for people to stop.

Just do what needs to get done to get it done. Learn later. Keep going, walk if you can't run, but don't stop.

[CLEP101]

Keep going, walk if you can't run, but don't stop.

I like it Jennifer. I think I'm going to borrow this and turn it into a quote. With your permission of course.

[CLEP101]

I just found some more motivation today. I found out that the Masters in Public Administration is all going to be 8 week courses.:hurray:
I will be finished way before I retire. If I would have gone for a Masters in History, now that would have sucked big time, all courses for that are 16 weeks. Glad I'm just doing a the History Grad Certificate.
Sorry I hijacked your thread Plutoon. But maybe a little bit of my new found motivation will rub off on you. :roflol:

[plutoon]

Jennifer: Thanks for that motivational talk! It almost sounds like a personal trainer! I am trying to keep focused on the big assignments it's hard that there are so many this semester and my personal life is overwhelming things.

Clep101: I'm happy your classes are short! Congrats! :0)

[PonyGirl93]

Hem, after I gave my lovely suck-it-up speech a few days ago, naturally I set myself up for trouble. Yesterday I hit the worst burnout I've ever had in my life.

Thankfully, I took my own & everyone else's lovely advice.

[ryoder]

Everyone, work hard because there are millions of people across the world working just as hard as you in lower income areas such as India, China and other developing countries.
If you don't believe me, check out the latest unemployment numbers.