Achievement

Without motivation nothing would get done and nobody would even care. For me i occasionally find myself unmotivated, especially in school and sports. Sometimes i am just tired and don't really want to try. Sometimes i have to force myself to become motivated. I usually do this by telling myself things like.. "the sooner i get this done the sooner its over" or "it will raise my grade if i do a good job on this". In sports it seems like sometimes i do better when my family or friends are watching me. That is probably because i want to impress them. It is pretty much like an extrinsic motivation because i am not doing it completely for myself. But other times i am motivated on my own because inside i really want to succede or i am having fun doing somthing. I think achievement motivation can change as you age. Because as a freshmen i had much less motivation than i do now. When faced with a tough assignement i would find myself doing the bare minimum just to get a B or C and be done with it. But now i always try and get an A because inside i want to do as best as i can. Also now when i get a bad grade i am much harder on myself, before i would just let it go and forget about it. I also find myself more motivated when i have really smart students in a class with me because i want to try and do as good as them. Now one of the my biggest n-Ach's is probably intrinsic motivation and feedback. My parents don't really force me to do anything because they know i will do it myself. I almost always perform better when i get positive feedback, because then that encourages me, negative feedback usually brings me down. When i get positive feedback i usually try harder and want to achieve more.