...My life has been a story of hard knocks but because these, I have become the person I am today. My biggest motivation to return to school was to prove to myself that I could become something/someone even at my age. I am a grandmother and a recovering addict. I wanted to show my parents that I could be more than just a “junkie”. The second thing that motivated me the most is my daughter Crystal. I wanted her to see that a mother can do anything she puts her mind too. If I could go back to school at the age of 43 then she could go back at 22 and get her GED. My final and most beautiful reason is for my granddaughter Autumn Noel. I wanted to make sure that when she grew up and talked about her grandma that she could do it with pride. Knowing that her grandmother turned her life around. And that it is never to late to become someone/something. There are hundreds of reasons I have to push myself to continue this adventure and graduate. My first has to be my family. When I first picked an online college across the country I never thought any of them would come watch me walk across the stage. Over time since I have been talking to them it surprised me how many of my family and friends want to be there when I walk across that stage. That motivates me greatly. Second thing that motivates me is younger people I help along my journey in life. I see them at their worst and I want to show them what can be their best. That if I can turn my life around after twenty-three years of shooting...
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...advances, the choice is always driven. For me personally, it’s because of my son, I want to succeed in a career I love, and for financial gains. My son is my life, even at six months old, I know I was meant to be his mom. I couldn’t imagine a life without him. I am so grateful to have Nathan, and I want nothing more in life than for him to be proud of me. Nathan was the true driving force of me going back to school. In addition to wanting him proud of me, I also want to succeed in the career path that I have chosen. Healthcare is in my blood, I have worked in it for eight years now, and I thrive in it. I originally wanted to be a nurse, however, with a newborn, it’s virtually impossible. That’s why I chose the degree I am currently enrolled in. My degree will allow me to work in a hospital and be an influential person on nurses, physicians, and a patient advocate. I have had several surgeries in my life, and am a type one diabetic; I have seen my fair share of great healthcare settings and horrible healthcare settings. In my early age, I decided I wanted to provide a great healthcare environment for patients; for the past 8 years I have been able to do that! Without having a degree, I make fairly decent money, however, I would like to make more. I see my boyfriend, who has a college degree and he thrives in the workplace and makes a significant amount of money, far more than I. By the time I finish my degree, I would like to be work in a hospital in a prestigious position, with...
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...201580 4/September/2015 My biggest achievement so far:Graduating In this short life I have had had on this planet we call home I have not accomplished anything of major importance to anyone well except for me and my close family. To start when I started high school I immediately hated it there was no freedom or free time you were packed into a small school that was terribly overpopulated and equipped with some awful teachers to boot. At this time in my life I didn’t care about anything except for xbox live and hanging out with my friends I was also convinced that high school wouldn’t do much for me in the real world I figured I could get a G.E.D and become a police officer or join the army and live a reasonably comfortable life. But things eventually changed for me when ninth grade ended and I had several failing grades and had to catch up I became more hardworking so I wouldn’t have to waste my summer in the place I hated the most. Sophmore year started I was ready to study more, have decent grades this year and spend less time goofing off. Halfway into the year I realize I wasn’t going to pass geometry it also didn’t help that me and this teacher never did see eye to eye since I had her multiple times a day freshmen year and this year and we couldn’t get along that well. I also wasn’t going to beg someone I have distaste towards for sympathy; even if she did give it to me I still wouldn’t have passed since my grade was so bad and my math is inherently my weak point. So I had...
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...(http://www.chevening.org/) Samuel Duah Ghana Chevening Scholarships Personal details Title Ms Please write your name as it appears or will appear on your passport Lastname Duah Firstname Samuel Other names Boadu Date of birth 6 July 1989 Country of citizenship Ghana In the majority of cases, to receive a Chevening Award, you must attend a face to face interview at the British Embassy or High Commission in this country. Is your country of residence different from your country of citizenship? No Do you hold Dual Citizenship? No Contact details Primary email address psamdb@ymail.com Additional email address psamdb@gmail.com Phone number 1 233246184325 Phone number 2 233242143956 Skype ID Please write your current postal address below. You do not need to write your country. First line of address Advent Reformed Institute Second line of address Post Office Box 198 Third line of address Kade- E/R Fourth line of address Your education Undergraduate education The Chevening programme requires applicants to have achieved an undergraduate qualification that is equivalent to at least an upper second-class (2:1) honours degree in the UK at the time they submit their application. Please provide details of your undergraduate degree below. You will have the opportunity to inform us of additional qualifications at a later point. Country of study Ghana University/college Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Date from August 2008 Date to May 2012 Degree type BSc Degree subject...
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...stress well, but I think it is important to understand where your stress comes from, so that you can handle it accordingly. When I took my stress test I knew that I would not be happy with my score, so I was not surprised at all. I am a very high strung individual, and I am always in a hurry. I also take things to heart, so at previous jobs when people got upset with me or the company it upset me also. My stress assessment showed me that I am on the verge of major stress problems. It let me know that I need to slow down, and probably could use some quiet time for myself. I could also channel my stress into something productive. Stress impacts our bodies in different ways when we handle stressful situations like work, or good situations like winning an award. Stress effects the body by triggering the fight or flight response which in normal doses can improve performance. (Kotz 2008) When the body becomes stressed the hypothalamus tells the adrenal glands to release adrenaline or cortisol. Once the stress goes away the body releases hormones that tells it to go back to normal. The body also can be affected in the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, and this happens when your heart rate and breathing rises due to stress. I do have a new perspective on motivation, emotions, and stress. I have had a lot of problems with motivation when I am stressed. I usually do not want to participate in anything, and I get very tired. I find it hard to complete simple...
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...Motivation: The Forgotten Tool Motivation: The Forgotten Tool By Consuelo Moran EDCI 6304 Learning & Cognition (Fall 2007) School of Education University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College Literature Review Motivation. The importance of motivation is widely known, however, the high drop-out rates in our school and low test scores at our schools suggest that maybe we have all forgotten just how important motivation is. “High motivation and engagement in learning have consistently been linked to reduced dropout rates and increased levels of student success” (Halwah, 2006, p.1). Literature has shown that “student's motivation for learning is generally regarded as one of the most critical determinants, if not the premier determinant, of the success and quality of any learning outcome” (Halwah, 2006, p.3). Therefore, motivation as well as the relationship between motivation and academic achievement need to be studied as well. This study will discuss motivation in details through my personal experience with motivation and the significance it plays in learning. This research offers an insight to the age-old question of how we should get our school children to learn and keep them from dropping out of school. Many children, especially adolescence, often believe that they know everything and they have no need to learn something new. Lack or motivation is derived from this exact sentiment which impedes the learning process. “If there really is no need to acquire anything...
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...When I searched the definition of motivation, I found one from the Business Dictionary.com website. They define motivation as internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people. It allows people to be continually be committed to a job, a role, or a subject in order to be able to achieve a goal. Motivation can result from a desire or need, rewards from achieved goals, and expectations on oneself or others (Business Dictionary.com). Different things motivate me in the workplace. Three of the biggest motivations that drive me include the need to help support my family financially, the challenges it gives me to better myself, and the rewards and benefits that result from doing a great job. Some days, only one of the factors motivates me, while on other days, it is a mixture of the factors. With the current economy and cost of living here in Hawaii, I feel the need more than ever to contribute to my family’s income. By being able to hold job that offers good benefits and security, I am able to appreciate my job, which in turn motivates me to work hard and produce quality work. Bainbridge’s definition of extrinsic motivation shows that this can be considered as an extrinsic type of motivation since the motivation comes from the outside and the rewards include good benefits and a paycheck (Bainbridge, Extrinsic Motivation). It can also be considered an intrinsic motivation because certain aspects of the job I do are very enjoyable. For example, when...
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...Vroom’s Expectancy Theory of Motivation Motivation is defined as “psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior” (Kinicki and Kreitner, 2006). As a more business-related definition, motivation can be defined as “forces within an individual that account for the level, direction, and persistence of effort expended at work” (Young, 2000). Motivating employees can be extremely challenging and complex for an organization’s leaders and managers. For an organization to be successful and survive in the rapidly changing market, it is essential for managers to understand what motivates individuals within the context of the specific tasks being performed. Hiring employees that are self-motivated, who already have set their goals and expectations, can make a manager’s job less difficult. However, managers must continually motivate their employees to sustain satisfaction throughout the whole organization. Like personalities, individuals have different sets of goals and expectations for their jobs. They also have different choices on how they want to be rewarded for a “job well done,” whether it is a monetary bonus, a promotion, or organizational recognition. Knowing an individual’s profile, a manager can construct a motivation method for that person. For example, if the manager is considering giving an employee a raise and their profile shows that organizational recognition motivates this person, the manager should reward accordingly, otherwise...
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...Running Head: MOTIVATION CONCEPTS ANALYSIS Motivation Concepts Analysis Name Human Motivation PSY 320 Faculty Date Introduction on motivational concepts Motivation is comprised of at least 3 components: direction, effort and persistence. Additional factors to motivation are intrinsic: “self generated factors such as responsibility, skills and abilities, interest, opportunities for career advancement and extrinsic: things that motivate an individual such as rewards, promotional opportunities or punishment.” (The Manager, 2007) According to the text, Understanding Motivation and Emotion by Reeve, “motivation is the study of the processes that provide behavior with energy and direction.” (Reeve, 2001) Describe how the theory of intrinsic motivation would and would not be applicable if applied to two or more workplace situations drawn from personal experience Some types of intrinsic motivation for employees are: challenge, interest, learning, meaning, purpose and creative flow. Intrinsic motivation is self generated and can be more effective when an individual has a general interest in something that has appeal to the individual. Intrinsic motivation requires a manager to engage an individual in a task and inform them of the benefits and impact on the employee. About two years ago our company was rolling out a third party record keeping platform. This required testing of our existing database systems for compatibility. My manager wanted me to be a subject matter...
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...What motivations would have me stepping out of my comfortable safe zone to contemplate textbooks, essays, grades, dreaded exams, and taking on the finical burden of student loans? I always had a vague idea someday, after the kids were grown and I had more free time, I would go back and get the college education I passed up in my youth. Life experiences and the oft times unexpected upheaval it brings, has dramatically brought a different agenda to my motivations and goals. Narrowing down to the strongest point that motivated me to start college is a fairly easy task, it all boils down to the main focus of my life: my family, raising our circumstances and all of our future aspirations. The foremost motivation is by far the largest was the dedication to raising my family. My husband became disabled roughly seven years ago; at that time I was unable to keep our small construction company running. The construction company, our main source of income, was gone and quality of life became vastly different. The struggle to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table for our children was the spur I needed to make the decision to return to college. This became my main motivation. Starting college and seeking out a degree that would provide me the ability to find employment with the ultimate goal of being able to provide a better life for my family. The prospect of a brighter future was appealing. The second motivation is, which is no less important to me, I wanted to show my children...
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...Motivation and Emotion Principles of Psychology Bryant & Stratton College By: Tara Hardaway Instructor: Pamela Parker Motivation and Emotion I choose to write this paper on motivation and emotion in order to identify how if the two are combined they create a sense of satisfaction in the workplace as well as daily life. I had to define the meanings of them and elaborate on the effect of them and identify how they have been used in my professional work life. "The term motivation refers to factors that activate, direct, and sustain goal-directed behavior... Motives are the "whys" of behavior - the needs or wants that drive behavior and explain what we do. We don't actually observe a motive; rather, we infer that one exists based on the behavior we observe." (Nevid, 2013) When it comes to work a person needs to be motivated to know what type of work environment they would choose to work in. Once you have the right environment the motivation comes naturally. You want to do your best and most you really do. Hauser, L. (2014) stated that in today's society and economy employees are well educated and relatively well off. This fact strongly influences the mechanisms of motivation. Therefore, today's managers have to use a large variety of motivational instruments. While under employment as an Adult Instructor with RCSD, I had the opportunity to work for the Family Learning Center in Rochester NY. In order to attend the Family Learning Center a students who had been out of school...
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...Definition Motivation, according to Merriam-Webster online, is “the act or process of giving someone a reason for doing something."(Merriam-Webster) Summary of Selected Article The article titled "Entrepreneurial Motivations: What Do We Still Need to Know?" written by Alan Carsrud and Malin Brännback, discusses the under researched area of entrepreneurial motivation. With this article, Carsrud and Brännback, "attempts to renew interest in a line of research that largely has been ignored for two decades but which is critical to the study of entrepreneurial cognitions, intentions, and their conversion into entrepreneurial behaviors," and "that area is entrepreneurial motivation"(Carsrud et al. 2011). They do this by showing how "entrepreneurial motivations are important explanatory mechanisms for a variety of entrepreneurial behaviors," and "how such motivations may impact both intentions and subsequent behaviors"(Carsrud et al. 2011). This was written in hopes of getting researchers to remember entrepreneurial motivations and their greater role in an entrepreneur's behaviors. Discussion about Selected Article According to Ward (2011), a business owner's motivation will change during the owner's life cycle with the business. For a person to want to become a business owner or to become an entrepreneur, they have to have some sort of motivation behind it. Carsrud and Brännback are challenging researchers to dig a bit deeper, to do more studies on how these motivations of entrepreneurs...
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...MOTIVATION Whenever we think about life and its necessities we find that there are too many things which are required to live a successful life. In general terms we say that we need food, clothing, housing, education etc. to live a successful or happy life (Psychology today 2012). To get a successful life a person attempts many things like getting education, getting a better job, marrying and so on. Motivation plays an important role in achieving all these things. We can say that motivation is a force which stimulates the desire to do the things. But the question is from where do we get the motivation? Well, a person can get the motivation from the people around him or from the persons whom he can observe or from the person about whom he knows (Psychology today 2012). There are several theories which have been written to explain motivation. These theories include Instinct theory of motivation, Incentive theory of motivation, drive theory of motivation, arousal theory of motivation and humanistic theory of motivation. Obviously, these theories have their explanations but our concern here is not to discuss the theories (About.com 2012). If I talk about myself and how do I get motivation, I have only one answer and that is my Father. He has motivated me throughout my carrier. I am highly influenced by his qualities and his living standards. Not only his life but also his helpful suggestions have helped me to make my carrier (Angel fire 2012). First I would like to talk about...
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...PGCE Secondary Mathematics: Assignment 1 – The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics Part 1: The Nature and Place of Mathematics in the School Curriculum When I studied maths at secondary school I had no real understanding of its importance in our society, I enjoyed the satisfaction of solving problems but, like many young people, believed that maths was going to be unnecessary in the real world. As an adult it became abundantly clear to me that mathematics was a vital component in not just personal success but in the success of society. The notion of what mathematics should be taught and how it should be taught differs dramatically between different educational ideologies; Industrial Pragmatist, Mathematical Purists, Progressive Educator and Social Reformer. These ideologies are not real groups or organisations but represent the competing influences in mathematics education. “The industrial pragmatists see mathematics as an established collection of very useful techniques and skills that can be applied to a large range of technical and scientific contexts.” (Johnston-Wilder, Johnston-Wilder, Primm, & Lee, 2011) Mathematics is needed in the school curriculum for the prosperity of our country; industry needs the future workforce to have the necessary skills to push the economy forward. For this reason it is seen as important for education to provide good standards of numeracy, data handling skills and use of ICT. Although I acknowledge this is an important requirement...
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...The following reflection explores my experience and learning as I venture into higher education via online learning this semester. As part of this exploration, I have reviewed my learning of time management techniques, motivation theories, deep and surface approaches to learning against the backdrop of this journey. I have included the thinking of others, my own experience and how this has and will affect my engagement online in the future. I have had mixed experiences over the past six weeks, when working through the materials and activities. However, I consider that both the positive and negative events have led me to reflect and develop a deeper understanding of the practice associated with online learning and each of the topics (Biggs & Moore 1993). I continue to work at each of the tasks required and apply a ‘read extra’ approach. This is challenging in the time available. However, I came into this degree wanting to learn as much as possible. Time management techniques, as reflected in my journal, allow me to stop, reflect on priorities and get organised. I have long term and daily planners (Time Management, p.2). I am also applying the 80/20 Pareto Principle. I take regular breaks and reduce the work periods. These are productive and achievable chunks of study (Jay 2002, p.68). I now know that not only does this provide a structured approach to my learning, but it also gives me a sense of control. I mentioned in my journal, that I have post-polio syndrome...
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