How Can I Motivate Myself to Study?

This has all the time been the greatest interrogate for students. Most students are fully aware of the point of reading a singular chapter, preparation for classes or systematically completing an assignment. But instead of putting 100% effort behind these tasks, we tend to put them off and rush at the very last minute, experiencing the full force of the anxiety, stress and panic.

So how do you motivate yourself to study (or perform any task for that matter)?

The best way to address this is to uncover what are your original motivating factors.

Pleasure & Pain. We are driven by 2 main forces.
1. The desire to feel pleasure.
2. The desire to avoid pain.

So if you chose Not to study something, you have (unconsciously or not) associated more pain with studying and more delight with not studying.

Here is an example. You should study for a class the next day but your favourite Tv show is on. If you decree to skip studying for class, you have accomplished that the delight from watching Tv is more indispensable than the pain of not being ready for class. You are probably reasoning what is the worst that could happen if you fail to prepare? You can catch-up later. So, until you decree to change this view process you will all the time pick the Tv show over your studies.

This is why you will notice the total opposite when it comes to exam time. The pain of failing a branch or having to repeat it over again next semester is more intense than the short term delight of watching the Tv show. So, that is why no matter what activities are on during exam time, more often than not, you are all the time able to Force yourself to study. So, how do I get myself to study?

It will take you less than 5 minutes to execute the below steps. Whenever, you feel like you are struggling to study, perform these steps and watch your motivation level rise.

Step 1: List 5 reasons how studying (insert subject/reading assignment ) will bring you pleasure.

Examples:
1. Feel ready in class.
2. Less stressful than the usual last slight cramming for the exam
3. If I focus, I have what it takes to do it quickly and effectively.
4. I can focus on more enjoyable activities without a guilty conscience.
5. Exam preparation will be so much easier now that I learnt this information.

Step 2: List 5 reasons how Not studying (insert subject/reading assignment ) will bring you pain

Examples:
1. Feeling fully stressed out and hopeless during exam week.
2. Feeling totally lost and bored during class
3. I have to restudy this whole lesson again later
4. The whole of study that needs to be done will start mounting since I keep putting off studying.
5. I could fail my exam and not get my dream job

Once you faultless this list, you will be more associated with studying because it not only gives delight from doing it but by Not doing it, you Know you are setting yourself up for pain.

How motivated you are depends solely on how strong you reasons are so pick fine ones.