motivation blog

1. Good question. I have always wanted to teach, I knew from a very young age. I'm here at UVU as a kind of divine intervention (if I had had things my way, I would be in southern California right now). But teach I must, and to do that I need a license and that is why I am here.

2. I think the greatest thing that motivates me is the fear of failure. Is that a bad thing? I just have seen the kind of lives others have when they fail school or don't have ambition and I know I don't want that for me. So every time I feel like life is too hard, or that I can not do something, the fear of being a failure or the thought of having regret for the rest of my life motivates me to continue, even if the going gets tough.

3. I succeed because I like to. As simple as that sounds I love the feeling afterward. It's like if you were to take a really long run. In the middle of it you may feel like you can't, or you wonder "what the heck was I thinking?" but once you finish, the sense of accomplishment is so great. I really think that is what helps me when I need an extra push, the fact that one day I will look back and think "I'm glad I made it through."

4. I don't mean this to sound arrogant or anything but... I don't fail. Things may not work out how I had planned, or I may not make it to the tippy-top of the success ladder, but anything that I have started, I have finished. If for some reason things don't work out how I had envisioned, it is never because I did not put forth the effort or because I was not capable, but because the timing wasn't right and I was unable to meet requirements.

5. I need to change my mind set from passing the program to reaching my greatest potential. Again, not to sound arrogant, I am not worried about my grades, I am not worried about managing a classroom. I need to see where I am now, and how far I am from reaching my greatest potential as a teacher and seek to reach that goal.