In the motivation article, I read about the "5 Keys To Unlock Your Creative Motivation" and about "The Goals That Guide Us." In the first article, I learned that to unlock my creativity, I need to challenge myself, have a new approach towards it, change my perspective, find your intrinsic motivation, and make it fun. These 5 steps are connected to the motivation unit because we learned about how people find their motivation and what they need to do to reach self-actualization. These steps can be used to take what we have learned in class and actually apply it to our lives. Whether it be in class or out in the world, we can use these 5 steps to find out what things excite us and how we can be efficient while also enjoying ourselves. The second article was about how setting goals for ourselves can give us direction in life to increase our focus and productivity. Some things that we can do when setting these goals are to write them down, acknowledge obstacles, identify benefits, make subgoals, enable ourselves, seek help, visualize your results, be organized, and reward yourself. This article is related to our motivation unit because not only can it help us to successfully achieve self-actualization, but can help us to feel in control of our success. These ideas can not only help us in school but can help us in achieving long term and short term goals in an efficient manner.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creating-in-flow/200907/5-keys-unlock-your-creative-motivation
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200307/the-goals-guide-us
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creating-in-flow/200907/5-keys-unlock-your-creative-motivation
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200307/the-goals-guide-us