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• Lets Get Motivated!

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Today..

• Review last week
• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
• Daniel Coleman Emotional Intelligence EQ
  enables or disables our potential
• Cognitive Behaviour Theory
• ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
• 4 part strategy for Short Term Motivation

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Motivation Short Termup to 2-3 weeks
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conscious
Conscious brain Subconscious Brain
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Factors that lead to success

• Environment (5)
• Knowledge Skill(15)
• Attitude / Motivation
• (80)

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Negative Motivation

• Motivated by negative factors that relate to fear
  anxiety
• The person is propelled away from the activities
  to achieve the goal

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Positive Motivation

• Motivated by positive factors or desire
• The person is propelled happily towards the
  activities to achieve the goal.

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Academic Activities

• Go to class
• Sit in class
• Look and listen to the teacher
• Write notes from the board
• Do homework
• Study for an exam
• Read the text book

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Motivation On or off5 Faculties

• Memory
• Concentration
• Listening
• Observation
• Body / Health

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Maslows Theory

• We each have a hierarchy of needs that ranges
  from "lower" to "higher." As lower needs are
  fulfilled there is a tendency for other, higher
  needs to emerge.

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Physiological Needs
Basic Human Needs

• Food
• Air
• Water
• Clothing
• Sex

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Safety Needs
Safety and Security

• Protection
• Stability
• Pain Avoidance
• Routine/Order

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Social Needs
Love and Belonging

• Affection
• Acceptance
• Inclusion

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• Following the herd..the need to belong be
  like everyone else is a powerful motivator during
  adolescence

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Esteem Needs
Esteem

• Self-Respect
• Self-Esteem
• Respected by Others
• Positive inner dialogue

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Self-Actualization

• Achieve full potential
• Sense of personal fulfilment

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Summary
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Self Actualisationtakes strength of courage
high levels of self esteem
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Heart versus Head

• Feeling versus Thought

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Intellect versus Emotion

• I want to do my homework but I feel like watching
  TV
• I want to be thinner but I feel like eating
  chocolate biscuits
• I want to be a good student but I feel lazy
  dont want to do the work

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Short Term Motivation

• How you feel is important if you are to achieve
  what you want
• How you feel enables or disables your potential
  at any point of time

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

• Cognition
• the activity in your mind
• your thoughts, memories, dreams etc.
• Behaviour
• everything that you do.

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CBT - The core idea

• The way I think influences
• the way I feel
• and the way I act.

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• Those who think they can
• and those who think they cant
• are both right.

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An empowering idea

• I can change the way I think
• and by doing this,
• I can change how I feel
• and how I act.

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Automatic Negative Thoughts
Everything in my life goes wrong. Its me, Im
useless.
Im always late. I just cant get out of bed in
the morning.
I cant control my temper.
Im no good at maths. I might as well give up now.
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• ANTs that personalise things

Its me. Im useless
Im ugly
Nobody likes me
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ANTs that say its a permanent problem
This always happens to me
Ill never get a job
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Pervasive ANTs - they spread the gloom to every
part of life
Everything goes wrong
All the teachers pick on me
Nobody likes me
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• ANTs just love to get together

ANTs just love to get together
Everything always goes goes wrong in my life.
Im just useless.
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Thought Challenge
Everything in my life goes wrong. Its me, Im
useless.
Im always late. I just cant get out of bed in
the morning.

Im no good at maths. I might as well give up now.
I cant control my temper.
Change the way you think.
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Try some more

• I hate school.
• I cant do exams.
• Nobody likes me.
• Everyone always picks on me.
• Everything always goes wrong.
• It always happens to me.

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How to Thought Challenge

• Find out the negative thoughts.
• 2. Find out what initiated those thoughts.
• 3. Consider the evidence for each negative
  thought.
• 4. Consider the evidence against each negative
  thought.
• 5. Consider other ways of looking at the problem.

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Use these techniques to

• recognise negative thinking
• challenge pessimism
• view problems as setbacks, not disasters
• construct optimistic ways of dealing with
  difficulties.

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Imagination

• Imagination - a double-edged sword.
• When used in positive ways, it can improve
  confidence, generate optimism and facilitate
  desired behaviours.
• Used negatively it leads to undesirable feelings
  and behaviours.

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Imagination - the downside

• Leave rumination to cows!
• Dont catastrophise!

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The power of language

• Ill try to --------
• contains the seeds of failure.
• I will -------
• shows determination to succeed.
• Im useless at ????.
• These words, often imbibed when young, can
  have a lifetimes influence.

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Mind and body

• It is very obvious that the mind controls the
  body.
• But the reverse is also true.
• Try to feel angry and at the same time relax
  your muscles and breath slowly.

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STM A Strategy

• Choose to win
• Decide what you want define this as a positive
  self statement or outcome
• Assess how you feel about the tasks
• involved
• Change how you feel by changing what you do
  what you think
• Act enthusiastic use positive self talk