Motivation

Avoid Negative Thoughts,People, Things and Habits. Achieving
your dreams Eleanor

of Roosevelt 
once said, “The future 
belongs to those who believe in the beauty

their dreams.”Achievement Is More Than A Test: Value and encourage a broader
view’s of learning.

Believe in yourself, and in what you can do. Believe  in your 
possibilities and

your dreams.Advancement of humankind has
taken place because someone believed in

themselves.

Begin With The End In Mind:Use backwards design as a tool for
planning to ensure

successful instruction.

Consider all the angles and aspects of everything you encounter,
whether it is

people 
or situations. Motivation comes from strength of purpose. Being able
to

see both points of view will give you more
chance of being successful & keeping

those around you motivated too.

Catch Them:Doing Something Good: Positive reinforcement makes a
difference!

Dare to Dream and Dream Big. Don’t give up and don’t give in. Every
successful

person 
from J K Rowling to Walt Disney to Sylvester Stallone to Thomas Edison

had 
multiple  failures before being
successful. Their failures  or
rejections

ran into the hundreds before they achieved
success.

Dealing with Diversity: 
Move past tolerance to celebration. Engagement.

Energy,Excitement & Enthusiasm are in your blood. Enjoy work as if
you don’t need

money. Dance as if nobody’s watching. Learn
as if you’ll live forever. Motivation

takes place when people are happy.

Equals Excitement: Everything I needed to know about student
engagement I learned

from a kindergarten teacher.

Family and Friends are hidden treasures; enjoy these riches. Use your
family and

friends to help you stay motivated. The big
football teams have cheerleaders and

fans to 
encourage them. Your family and friends can  be your 
cheerleaders  and

fans. Use them to keep you going when you
feel your motivation drifting.

Form Partnerships:Connect with parents, other family members,
teachers, and

other caring adults in a student’s life.

Give more than you planned to.Give that little bit extra.Self
improvement happens

everywhere all the time, whether you  are at home, at work or at  school. Anthony

Robbins tells  us that the difference in  effort between  excellent & outstanding

is 
miniscule, yet the difference 
in rewards is massive. Giving that little  bit

extra can put you into the outstanding.

Goals and Success:Involve students in setting SMART goals,and
in determining

specific next actions to achieve those
goals.

Have a good sense of humor. Hang on to your dreams.It is at
this moment that you

are closest to success and 95% of people
will give up.

There may be times when it looks bleak, but
hang on to your dreams.

Ignore Criticism,Ridicule and Discouragement.Ignore those who try to
destroy you.

Don’t get involved in their dramas or
toxicity-just walk away. Surround yourself

with people who will encourage and support
you.Remove those who want to pull you

down and 
watch you fail from your life. You will find it  much 
easier to  stay

motivated.

It’s All About Me:Intrinsic motivation works better in the long
run,but

extrinsic rewards can help on a short-term
basis.

Jump on Problems because they are Opportunities in disguise.

Joy and gratitude. Perhaps two of the fundamentals for motivation
and success is

to be joyful in what you do and grateful for
what you have.

Jump to Conclusions(Don’t):Look beneath the surface to deal
with the real issues.

Keep up the good work however hard it may seem. Keep pushing forwards
no matter

how hard life may seem. In the toughest
moments you can choose to move forwards

or to run away. It’s your decision - one
path brings you closer to the success,

the other takes you away from it. Which do
you want to follow?

Keys to Evaluation: Assessment and Grading.

Love yourself, just as you are. This isn’t as easy as it sounds for
most people,

but by loving yourself you will be happier
and more motivated  because you will

believe you deserve what you achieve.

Literacy: Literacy is a tool for communication, and should be
integrated into all

subject areas.

Make Impossibility a Possibility.

Make things happen.Motivation and success doesn’t come from
sitting in front of

the television drinking coke and eating
pizza. Take action and you will achieve

your dreams.

Myths of Motivation: You can’t motivate students.You can
motivate students.

What is the truth?

Never lie, cheat  or  steal, always  strike 
a fair deal. At the  end of the
day,

if you live a dishonest life,it will come
back to you.Living an honest,fair life

allows you to be proud of what you do.

Never Give Anyone Permission(to Take Away Your Chance for
Success):Develop

self-empowerment beliefs in your students.

Open your eyes and see things as they really are.Everyone has a set of
blinkers

that they wear and see everything through
them,i.e.how they would like thing to

be.Look at life with open eyes and see
things how they are,and see them how you

want them to be.Then take action to make it
happen.

Owners,not Renters:Building opportunities for voice, choice,and
leadership into

your classroom will develop shared
ownership.

Prefect Practice makes you perfect. The more you practice, the better
you become.

A top 
sportsman doesn’t  reach
their  status  through a single practice or game.

They 
practice  harder and  longer than anyone  else, and as  such, are rewarded

more than anyone else.

Perception is Reality: How your students perceive themselves as
learners is more

important than almost anything else.

Quitters never win and winners never quit.

Quantify Quality:Develop clear guidelines for quality, share
them with students,

and show them what “good” looks
like.

Reward yourself for every small success and achievement.Ready
yourself.Always be

ready to 
take advantage of the  opportunities  and 
situations presented to you.

Prepare 
in  advance, and  ignore 
the  voice  telling you to  put it 
off  until

tomorrow.Remember,it wasn’t raining when
Noah built the ark!

Rigor Is NOT Four Letter Word:Students do appreciate
challenging work-with

support.

Stop wasting your Time  and
Procrastinating important Goals. You 
can put it all

off until tomorrow, but one day there will
be no more tomorrows.Start procrasti-

nating about procrastinating and do
tomorrows jobs today.

Scaffolding for Support:Scaffolding learning supports higher
expectations.

Take  control  of 
your Life  and  your Goals. Discipline  and self 
control  are

synonymous with motivation. So  many people believe their  lives are out of their

control. Look  at your life in  detail and you’ll discover  you 
have  more areas

under your control than you think.

Track Progress,Not Students:Use data from a variety of sources
to help students

set goals, and see their progress.

Understand so that you can implement. If you know very well how to
talk, you

should also learn how to listen.You have two
ears and one mouth for a reason.

Understand others and strive to be understood.

Visualize your Goals and Dreams everyday.Your sub-conscious knows no
difference

between your imagination and  reality, so if  you rehearse your success in your

mind,then your sub-conscious will believe in
it and make it happen.

Win over your own weaknesses and make them as your Strengths.Every
successful

person has had a burning desire to achieve
their goals.The Wright brothers did

not invent the aero plane because there was
nothing on the television.They had

a burning desire to succeed and kept going,
even in the face of setbacks.

Xccelerate your efforts. X Factor is 
what will make you different from others.

When you are motivated,you tend to put on
“extras” on your life like extra time

for family,extra help at work, extra care
for friends. This X-Factor sets you

aside from the crowd and marks you out for
success.

Yes Yes, Yes you can and you Will. You 
are  unique. No one  in this world looks,

acts, thinks or talks like you. Value your
unique gifts,whatever they are and use

them for your success.

Zap your Stress and Enjoy your Life.