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Unit 1 Assignment

What Are Your Motivations?

Name: _______Sara Martin_______________________

PACE111 Section: ___________________

This assignment is about understanding your motivations for coming to the university
and what drives you to accomplish milestones in your life. Your goals and motivations
are driven by your underlying values—the reasons you desire to achieve certain things.
Values inform our thoughts, words, and actions, and they help us to grow, develop, and
envision and create the future we want to experience.

Assignment Part 1: The first step in better understanding your values is by


writing three to five goals for yourself in the table below. These could be personal or
professional goals, and they could be short-term or long-term goals. You should aim to
make them SMART goals.

Your Goals
Goal 1: Get a 3.0 GPA by summer semester 2024

Goal 2: Earn a degree by 2026

Goal 3: Grow my business to hire an employee by Summer of 2024

Goal 4: Love myself more and grow in confidence

Goal 5: Be Kinder and more forgiving to myself

Assignment Part 2: Once you’ve established your goals, think about what is motivating
you to achieve those specific goals. Is it to get to a certain level in your career? Is it to
achieve something you’ve always wanted to for personal reasons? Is it to set a good
example for your family or friends?
The second piece of this assignment is to establish two or three motivations for each
goal you’ve identified and write these in the table below. Copy your goals into the area
below from part 1 of the assignment.

Your Motivations

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Goal 1: Get a 3.0 GPA by summer Motivations: Sense of achievement


semester 2024
Goal 2: Earn a degree by 2026 Motivations: Gaining in depth knowledge
in my field, higher wages, taken seriously

Goal 3: Grow my business to hire an Motivations: Provide jobs for the


employee by Summer of 2024 community, become the first business
owner in my family

Goal 4: Love myself more and grow in Motivations: Be a better person spiritually
confidence
Goal 5: Be Kinder and more forgiving to Motivations: Getting out of a dark place,
myself learning how to cope, learning to live
more

Your motivation for doing anything generally stems from your values. Motivating
forces could be values instilled in you from a young age, or values you hold because
of what you’ve learned or been exposed to. Your core values are those that drive your
behaviors, actions, and words. They are the reasons we dedicate our time and energy
to most things in our lives. They are our guiding principles.

Assignment Part 3: Now that you’ve established goals and acknowledged your
motivations, consider what motivates you, and write the underlying reason for each
goal. These are your values. There could be one or several values for each goal that
you have, and the values might be the same or similar for different goals. In the table
below, copy your goals from part 1 of the assignment and enter your values.

There are no wrong answers for this exercise. The purpose is to establish your values
and to recognize what drives you to accomplish milestones in your life.

Your Values
Goal 1: Get a 3.0 GPA by summer Values: integrity, work ethic, divine focus
semester 2024
Goal 2: Earn a degree by 2026 Values: increased earnings, building
professional network, work ethic,
discipline, job security

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Goal 3: Grow my business to hire an Values: long-term reward, practical


employee by Summer of 2024 benefit, ownership, freedom

Goal 4: Love myself more and grow in Values: better outlook on life, finding inner
confidence peace, being harmonious with others
Goal 5: Be Kinder and more forgiving to Values: sharper thinking, gaining different
myself perspectives, being in control, optimism

Assignment Part 4: Now that you’ve established goals, acknowledged your


motivations, and reflected on your values, it’s time to consider how to go about
achieving your goals. There are likely several steps you’d need to take in order to reach
your ultimate goals, but writing down the first step that you can (and will) take can help
you to form a plan of action.

For each of your goals, list the next step you plan to take in order to achieve it.

Your Action Steps


Goal 1: Get a 3.0 GPA by summer Next Step: Review, and turn in homework
semester 2024 on time and correctly and study hard for
all test. Make sure I know the information
Goal 2: Earn a degree by 2026 Next Step: Register for class and stay on
schedule

Goal 3: Grow my business to hire an Next Step: Grow and save enough
employee by Summer of 2024 business capital get more involved in the
community

Goal 4: Love myself more and grow in Next Step: Every morning start
confidence encouraging myself

Goal 5: Be Kinder and more forgiving to Next Step: Giving myself more smiles and
myself pats on the back

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Assignment Part 5: Write a sentence or two about what you learned about your goals,
motivations, and values from completing this assignment.

What I’ve learned


What I have learned about my goals and motivations are that my goals are attainable
when broken down on paper in front of you, it gives you more of a good feeling that
you can actually see how you’re going to achieve your goals. When you see that your
goals are actually not high in the sky and can be attained it gives a good sense of
courage.

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