Adopting a Positive Mental Attitude
All of the motivation ideas that you have been learning about can be summed up as the development of a Positive Mental Attitude.
Mastering these steps will help to make you a high flyer. If, at anytime during your course, you find your motivation slipping, refer back to this section and read through the pages again (repeating the exercises as you do so).
Without a Positive Mental Attitude you won’t get far or you will struggle unnecessarily so take some time to understand the steps and refer back to them frequently.
Here is a summary of Positive Mental Attitude
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Use both your away from and towards motivation directions.
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Develop a sense of commitment. Make success in qualifying something that is personally important to you and to those you care about. Anything less is unacceptable to you personally.
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Break the task of qualifying down into small chunks that make you feel comfortable.
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Concentrate only on the task you are doing right now. The only important step, at this time, is the next step.
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Be personally involved in what you are doing. Integrate your learning into your daily driving.
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Only make 'self-to-self' comparisons. The only progress that is important is your own personal progress. Learn to value and record your own achievements.
Well done!
You have now completed your initial preparation for learning, however, before starting with the main study, units there are a couple more things to do.
1. Ensure that you have all the study materials that you need
2. Discover just how good you are at learning
The next section outlines the resources that you will need in order to complete this course and introduces the 'Learning Logs'.
A reminder that you can use the drop down menus at the top of the page to access the main units of the course. If you are not sure about any aspect, go back and review it before moving on.
Next: If you are happy that you have understood the information in this unit fully, and have completed the exercises, move on to the Learning Resources section to find out about optional resources that might be useful during your study.