ARTICLE
15 Ways to Get Motivated at College
By Lynn F. Jacobs, Jeremy S. Hyman
Here are fifteen ways to get your motivation up—and to keep it up—throughout your college career.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
CLEAR ALL
BY TOPIC
BY TYPE
FILTER
TOPIC
- BIPOC Well-Being (27)
- Well-Being (27)
- Parenting (25)
- Self-Care (25)
- Anxiety (21)
- Motivation (20)
- ADD/ADHD (19)
- Neurodiversity (18)
- Depression (16)
- Leadership (16)
- Work-Life Balance (16)
- Burnout (15)
- Resilience (15)
- Self-Mastery (15)
- Transitions (15)
- Self-Pressure (14)
- Cancer (13)
- Emotional Labor (13)
- Stress Management (13)
- Athlete Well-Being (12)
- Black Well-Being (12)
- Entrepreneurship (12)
- Growth Mindset (12)
- LGBTQIA Well-Being (12)
- Life Challenges (12)
- Mental Health Challenges (12)
- Academic Struggles (11)
- Disabled Well-Being (11)
- Search for Purpose (11)
- Building Character (10)
- Failure (10)
- Happiness (10)
- Self-Worth (10)
- Stress (10)
- Goal Setting (9)
- Motherhood (9)
- Productivity (9)
- Women’s Well-Being (9)
- Autism (8)
- Child’s Emotional Growth (8)
- Communication Skills (8)
- Creative Well-Being (8)
- Empathy (8)
- Habits of Mind (8)
- Imposter Syndrome (8)
- Intention (8)
- Job Loss (8)
- Mindfulness (8)
- Self-Limiting Beliefs (8)
- Setting Limits and Boundaries (8)
- Authenticity (7)
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (7)
- Performance Anxiety (7)
- Performance Pressure (7)
- Physical Health (7)
- Activism/Service (6)
- Belonging (6)
- Caregiver Well-Being (6)
- Compassion (6)
- Finding Meaning (6)
- Identity (6)
- Learning Styles (6)
- Meditation (6)
- Neuroplasticity (6)
- Neuroscience (6)
- Racism (6)
- Self-Actualization (6)
- Self-Discovery (6)
- Suicide (6)
- Values (6)
- Access to Education (5)
- Child’s Anxiety (5)
- Child’s Autism (5)
- Community Healing (5)
- Connection with Nature (5)
- Female Empowerment (5)
- Gender Challenges (5)
- Gratitude (5)
- Honoring Emotion (5)
- Kindness (5)
- Mind-Body Connection (5)
- Mindfulness Practices (5)
- Offering Support to Others (5)
- Relationship with Time (5)
- Self-Development (5)
- Self-Esteem (5)
- Talk Therapy (5)
- Transgender Well-Being (5)
- Trust (5)
- Work Relationships (5)
- Asking for Help (4)
- Child’s Challenging Behavior (4)
- Child’s Trauma (4)
- Chronic Anxiety (4)
- Climate Change (4)
- Competition (4)
- Courage (4)
- Death or Loss of a Loved One (4)
- Digital Life (4)
- Discrimination (4)
- Empowerment (4)
- Family Dynamics (4)
- Fellowship and Community (4)
- Latinx Well-Being (4)
- Peak Performance (4)
- Personal Development (4)
- Presence (4)
- Psychology (4)
- PTSD (4)
- Racial Discrimination (4)
- Relationship Challenges (4)
- Self-Control (4)
- Social Justice (4)
- Speaking Your Truth (4)
- Trauma Healing (4)
- AAPI Well-Being (3)
- Acceptance (3)
- Buddhism (3)
- Building Culture (3)
- Child Depression (3)
- Collaboration (3)
- Coming Out (3)
- Connection (3)
- Curiosity (3)
- Decision Making (3)
- Diet and Nutrition (3)
- Divorce and Breakup (3)
- Exercise (3)
- Forgiveness (3)
- Gender Discrimination (3)
- Generosity (3)
- Grief (3)
- Habit Formation (3)
- Immigration and Assimilation (3)
- Indigenous Well-Being (3)
- Inner Peace (3)
- Inner Strengths (3)
- Letting Go (3)
- Living with Illness (3)
- Loneliness (3)
- Men’s Well-Being (3)
- Passion (3)
- Pleasing Parents (3)
- Positive Thinking (3)
- Problem Solving (3)
- Quitting Your Job (3)
- Rest (3)
- Retirement (3)
- Self-Acceptance (3)
- Self-Compassion (3)
- Self-Harm (3)
- Self-Healing (3)
- Self-Love (3)
- Self-Reliance (3)
- Shame (3)
- Sleep (3)
- Social Psychology (3)
- Spiritual Growth (3)
- Addiction (2)
- Addiction Recovery (2)
- Aging (2)
- Anger Management (2)
- Awareness (2)
- Brain Health (2)
- Challenges with Teens (2)
- Child’s ADD/ADHD (2)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2)
- Confidence (2)
- Conscience (2)
- Disconnection (2)
- Eating Disorders (2)
- Epigenetics (2)
- Fear (2)
- Forest Bathing (2)
- Friendship (2)
- Gender Justice (2)
- Grit (2)
- Handling a Loved One’s Illness (2)
- Healthy Eating (2)
- Homophobia (2)
- Human Potential (2)
- Inner Life (2)
- Insomnia (2)
- Integrative Medicine (2)
- Joy (2)
- Laughter Therapy (2)
- LGBTQIA Children (2)
- Life Force Energy (2)
- Mentoring (2)
- Negative Self-Talk (2)
- Nonbinary Well-Being (2)
- Patience (2)
- Positive Self-Talk (2)
- Self-Expression (2)
- Self-Reflection Practices (2)
- Social Responsibility (2)
- Spiritual Life (2)
- Suffering (2)
- Time Management (2)
- Traumatic Grief (2)
- Unconscious Bias (2)
- Unfulfilled Career (2)
- Veteran Well-Being (2)
- Willpower (2)
- Work Ethic (2)
- Abandonment (1)
- Adjusting to Parenthood (1)
- Affirmations (1)
- Anger (1)
- Betrayal (1)
- Breathwork (1)
- Child Defiance (1)
- Chronic Health Conditions (1)
- Clinical Depression (1)
- Compassion Meditation (1)
- Consciousness (1)
- Cross-Cultural Dynamics (1)
- Cross-Cultural Parenting (1)
- Death or Loss of a Parent (1)
- Economic Justice (1)
- Energy Healing (1)
- Environmental Justice (1)
- Family Acceptance (1)
- Family Therapy (1)
- Fatigue (1)
- Female Friendship (1)
- Financial Instability (1)
- Flower Essences (1)
- Freedom (1)
- Functional Medicine (1)
- Gender Identity (1)
- Genetics (1)
- Global Challenges (1)
- Guilt (1)
- Handling a Child’s Illness (1)
- Healing Approaches (1)
- Hero’s Journey (1)
- Highly Sensitive People (1)
- Household Labor (1)
- Identity Shifts (1)
- Illness and Injury (1)
- Imagination and Creativity (1)
- Indigenous Healing Approaches (1)
- Inspiration (1)
- Integrity (1)
- Longevity (1)
- Loss of Partner/Spouse (1)
- Lovingkindness Meditation (1)
- Managing Energy (1)
- Manifestation (1)
- Masculine/Feminine Dynamics (1)
- MDMA (1)
- Memoir (1)
- Military to Civilian Re-entry (1)
- Mindfulness Meditation (1)
- Optimism (1)
- Panic Attacks (1)
- Perception (1)
- Personality Typing (1)
- Play (1)
- Poverty/Economic Inequality (1)
- Psychedelic Research (1)
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (1)
- Quantum Physics (1)
- Racial Identity (1)
- Racial Justice (1)
- Regret (1)
- Relationship with Money (1)
- Self-Discipline (1)
- Self-Employment (1)
- Self-Reckoning (1)
- Sexual Assault or Abuse (1)
- Shadow (1)
- Sleep Disorders (1)
- Social Anxiety (1)
- Social Presence (1)
- Soul Mission (1)
- Spiritual Awakening (1)
- Spirituality and Health (1)
- Stoicism (1)
- Storytelling (1)
- Tarot (1)
- The Divine (1)
- Vulnerability (1)
- Wake-Up Calls (1)
- Whiteness (1)
- Women’s Rights (1)
- Youth Activism (1)
- Zen Buddhism (1)
FILTER
TEACHER
- Naomi Osaka (3)
- Adam Grant (2)
- Amy Morin (2)
- Gary Zukav (2)
- Jessica Dore (2)
- Joanne Cacciatore (2)
- Karla McLaren (2)
- Mark Manson (2)
- Martha Beck (2)
- Michael Phelps (2)
- Richard Davidson (2)
- Scott Shute (2)
- Tara Brach (2)
- Temple Grandin (2)
- Amishi Jha (1)
- Angela Duckworth (1)
- Arianna Huffington (1)
- Becky Kennedy (1)
- Brendon Burchard (1)
- Connie Zweig (1)
- Daniel Amen (1)
- Deepak Chopra (1)
- don Jose Ruiz (1)
- Emiliana Simon-Thomas (1)
- Eric Maisel (1)
- Forrest Hanson (1)
- Gabor Maté (1)
- Herbert Benson (1)
- Hyla Cass (1)
- Iyanla Vanzant (1)
- Jack Canfield (1)
- Jacqueline Carter (1)
- James Baraz (1)
- Jonathan Haidt (1)
- Judith Orloff (1)
- Judson Brewer (1)
- Kamilah Majied (1)
- Kelly McGonigal (1)
- Laurie Santos (1)
- Light Watkins (1)
- Monnica Williams (1)
- Nataly Kogan (1)
- Norman Fischer (1)
- Oprah Winfrey (1)
- Oshoke Pamela Abalu (1)
- Riane Eisler (1)
- Rich Fernandez (1)
- Saeed Jones (1)
- Simone Biles (1)
- Stephen Covey (1)
- Sue Morter (1)
- Swami Mukundananda (1)
- Toni Bernhard (1)
- Tony Gaskins Jr. (1)
- Tony Robbins (1)
- Wayne Dyer (1)
- Wim Hof (1)