Which system (reward, consequence, or distraction) did you create to helping maintain or improving your level of motivation?

https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/icap/assessment/purpose.html
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/reflecting-on-work-improves-job-performance
https://wac.colostate.edu/resources/wac/intro/reflect/
Briefly describe your level of motivation. Has it been consistently high, waivered from week to week, or been consistently low?
Which system (reward, consequence, or distraction) did you create to helping maintain or improving your level of motivation? Describe the system and how it has impacted your level of motivation.
If you did not create a system this week, what do you plan to do to help you stay motivated this semester?

create heavier consequences to our lack of motivation
give ourselves ancillary rewards in addition to the main reward (The main reward could be getting the assignment done on time and getting a better grade as a result, but an ancillary reward could be a treat, like a day at the beach.)
create barriers to our distractions (e.g. going to the library to study instead of studying at home)
He purports that we all have agency in our ability to be motivated. To those who say they can’t motivate themselves, he refutes . . .
. . . the problem isn’t that you can’t motivate yourself, it’s that, right now you’re unwilling to lay the groundwork and build the systems in order to generate that motivation. The pain or discomfort of not doing what it is you’re supposed to be doing has not yet become great enough that you’ve decided to make a change in your life.
In other words, motivation is within our power. All we need to do is create systems that diminish the factors that squash our motivation, (see the list under “create systems”). How cool is that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO2ajzXu-Wg

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