Student Success Research Paper

“Motivation is one of the critical components of achieving long-term goals.”(University Success, 2012 pg. 7) Starting any task in life always begins with the motivation and longing for that certain goal. For University success, finding motivation is one of the biggest challenges many people encounter. Finding the support from family and friends is most crucial to student success. Once having the support needed to kick start your college career, the best way to retain that motivation is get to know your classmates. What is their story? Their goals? Why are they at the same place you are? What things do you have in common to help keep each other going? This can really boost that little kick start into reality. Never give up that urge to learn a little bit more everyday. Use resources provided by student center. Ask questions; not only to your professors, but classmates as well! Keep each other going. We are all Lopes after all. The choice to enroll in Grand Canyon University was a very big step in my life, but it was all thanks to my mother. Around the beginning of January this year, she decided at 36 years old she was going to start …show more content…
Many people are not capable of goal setting, nor plan making, such as myself for example. I am an extremely impatient person. I will set one huge goal (a Bachelors of Science in Psychology) and not worry about all the small goals in between I must accomplish first in order to obtain my big goal. “A key strategy is to break the larger goal of earning a degree into smaller components, or short-term goals.”(University Success, 2012 pg. 7) After reading this specific section of chapter one, I actually sat down and made small goals for myself leading up to my main goal and it motivated me to really put in work in this class and prepare myself for future classes and it gives me hope that I can actually succeed at something for once in my