The Power of Optimum Motivation
By Andrew Loh
Today's world is increasingly becoming more competitive and
confusing for your child to show an optimum performance, be it in
the classroom or in a sports hall. The intense pressure to perform
far above their abilities and expectations may make your kid loose
interest in everything. It is critically so in a school where the
pull and twists of tests and exam results may hold the kid to an
unfair ransom. As parents, we may try our level best to support,
lead and guide or encourage our kids to display the best of their
talents and skills. To ask our kids to do the right thing could be
very difficult given the fragile state of mind they undergo in a
highly pressurized world. To make them perform better in their life,
we may need to encourage and motivate them on a consistent basis.
Here are some workable suggestions and tips to help motivate your
kid to perform both in studies as well as other sundry activities:
Teach Enthusiasm: Enthusiasm makes the difference! If your
child is enthusiastic about his or her life, it is possible to show
inclination to achieve the best in life. Whenever you child becomes
successful in achieving a small goal, have fun with her or him to
celebrate the event. Show enthusiasm to edge your kid to go for the
next goal in the series.
Teach Positive Character: The power of a positive mind can
make a person achieve anything in life. A positive mind is capable
of reaching any type of goalpost within the shortest possible time.
Make your child understand that a failure is just an event and that
it is a brief stopover enroot to the path of success. You will be
doing the greatest service if you are making your kid feel positive
about his or her intrinsic capabilities.
Boost and Encourage Self Belief and Self Esteem: When you
assign a task to your child, encourage your kids by saying something
positive about the task. Leave them to finish their task and never
bother them unless they really need something. Once they complete an
assigned task, they will start feeling extremely positive and
comfortable about future tasks that are more difficult and time
sensitive.
Accept and Understand their Difficulties: Kids often find
doing work very tedious, laborious and time consuming. As a parent,
you will need to understand their difficulties and problems. Helping
them to overcome these problems will make them confident and bold
which eventually enhances their self images and self esteem.
Teach Kids How to Take Control: This is probably the most
important and difficult stage of your child's life. Taking control
means having a tight control on our life, on what we do, how we do
things, the ways in which we interact with crises and the mode in
which we try to solve any type of problems. Your child must reach a
sensible goal by himself or herself. Help only if necessary! Help
them to take control over various processes of reaching a
substantial goal.
Make them Learn How to Solve Problems: Problems could be
really annoying especially when they remain unsolved. Kids get
impatient and angry when they are unable to solve a specific
problem. Solving problems also means getting there by using a
workable short cut in the quickest possible time. If you find that
your kid is struggling while solving problems provide him or her
range of clues on how to solve the problem.
The Power of Choices: Some kids will not work and reach their
goals even after sitting down with them for a long time. The reasons
for this inactivity could be your kid's wavering concentration and
preoccupation with some other things which are often a big
distraction. It makes sense to provide intelligent choices to your
kid about when they do things and the place where they would like to
work.
As a parent, your essential duty is to empower your kid with a range
of positive characters and traits that will lead and guide him or
her to reach the goalpost all the while learning how to solve a
specific problem. Motivating your kid to perform better in class and
elsewhere is itself a big task. Ensure that you are motivating your
kid to perform better in any sphere of life, especially school and
other activities.
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