AddThis Social Bookmark Button

LINKS FOR NON-TRADS

Look for Scholarships

The Nontrad student blog

Articles of interest to Non-trads

Free web goodies

Add your FREE organization link

National organizations

More Links

Non-Trad Learning Links

Links from Wikipedia

MySpace Nontrads

The Non-Traditional Student FAQ

How to add your group to this site

Join the National Non-Trads

Yahoo discussion group

Send me a link idea

The For Teachers web page

http://www.nontradstudents.com

http://betsyanne.blogspot.com/

http://nontraditional

students.blogspot.com

http://www.squidoo.com/

kungfu_TV_show/

http://www.squidoo.com/trolls/

http://www.myspace.com

/10227896

Please contact me with suggestions and information here.
 

Join the Nontrads Yahoo Group


Find out about the

Amber Alert system

NT FORUM

SCHOLARSHIPS

NONTRAD LINKS

LINKS-B

ARTICLES

WEB GOODIES

NATIONAL GROUPS

ADD YOUR GROUP

FOR WRITERS 1

WRITERS 2

F.A.Q.

AMBER ALERT PAGE

TECHNOLOGY

HELP PAGE

FREE CLIP ART

LEARNERS PAGE

CONTACT THE WEBMASTER

ABOUT ME

MY NT JOURNEY

STUDY SKILLS

-MORE LINKS

SOME GOOD BOOKS

ABOUT PODCASTS

ARCHIVES

 

My site is listed

at SurfGopher

NEW - the Nontrads Sitemap Page - HOME - GET MOTIVATED! - THE NONTRAD BLOG - SCHOLARSHIPS - MORE SCHOLARSHIPS - NONTRAD LINKS - LINKS-B - ARTICLES - WEB GOODIES - NATIONAL GROUPS - ADD YOUR GROUP - FOR WRITERS 1 - WRITERS 2 - F.A.Q. - AMBER ALERT PAGE - TECHNOLOGY - HELP PAGE - FREE CLIP ART - LEARNERS PAGE - CONTACT THE WEBMASTER - ABOUT ME - ABOUT MY NON-TRAD JOURNEY - STUDY SKILLS - MORE LINKS - SOME GOOD BOOKS - ABOUT PODCASTS - PAST HIGHLIGHTS/ARCHIVES

Get motivated!

To go back to school... and get good grades!

 
 

The Power of Rewards - to help you stop procrastinating!

How this page came about

These sites and pointers to other resources are an ongoing project for me. I was recently a non-traditional student in Kentucky. I always wanted to see how teaching would be for a career, so I finally took the courses I needed to find out. I was so glad I did. I didn't want to say when I was older that I never did anything about this dream. So I acted on it.

Now I want to help others get inspired and motivated to pursue their educational goals.

 
 
Some tips on how to get self-motivated and inspired...

As I learned in my teaching classes, inspiration can come from many sources.

Also, motivation is the best when it is intrinsic, or activated from inside the individual.

In other words, if you do something only for a reward, or an extrinsic thing, you might not last at the task. You will become unmotivated eventually, because learning really needs to be its own reward. Why? Because rewards like grades or kudos don't last forever.
 

In other words, when you are motivated to do the learning because you WANT to, and have a goal, the learning can continue until that goal is reached. You are being pushed along by YOURSELF.

So... you may be asking, how does a person start getting self-motivated and working towards his or her goal?

One way is to access the wisdom and help of others.

Below are some website links, podcasts, and motivational mini-movie sites to help you get going on your road to being a non-traditional student, and help you succeed.

Websites:

Motivational websites

College Planning Inc. Ron Caruthers also has articles on the Article Wheel website.

Positive Psychology sites

The About Guide to Goal-Setting

Goal-Setting quotes

Read stories by other nontraditional students

Radio Shows and Podcasts:

Positive Thinking Radio

Overcoming fear by Steve Pavlina MP3 download

Motivational movies:

Check out the movies on the Index Page.

 

Procrastination:

Stop Procrastinating - from the Web M.D. site

Visit the Rita Emmett site (she has books and courses to buy)

Wendi will hypnotise you to get motivated (costs money though)

 

Quote:

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."

-Mary Kay Ash (Mary Kay Corp.) - famous company leader

 

I am busy collecting a lot more information, quotes, movies, websites, and more for this page.

Please send me your inspirational or motivational ideas, movies, links and more to me via my contact page.

Thanks!

 

 

Affiliated web pages:

http://www.betsyanne.com

http://www.nontradstudents.com

http://www.thebestbooks

andcollectibles.com

The Nontrad Student Blog

The Betsyanne Blog

Cheap and Free Stuff

in the Bowling Green Area Blog

My Auctiva Ebay Store Page

 

 

In short: Non-trads:

Get Inspired!

Get Motivated!

 
 
Copyright 2008, Betsy's CGC