When we are little, we all fantasize about our future careers, from being an astronaut to an all star athlete. Whether you realize it or not, we start thinking about our future that early. Those were the good old days in school with coloring and nap time. Now in high school, all the added pressures make it difficult every day while striving to meet goals. The question is: Do contemporary teens still have dreams of becoming successful?
The constant mandated testing, endless amounts of homework, projects in every class, individual assignments alone, sports, extra-curricular activities is sometimes all too much to handle in one day, especially in honors courses–double of the work. Therefore, all the academic pressures easily lead down the path of lack of motivation. It’s much easier to come home and put on the television or take a nap than to write an essay or solve fifty math problems.
Once you get into that mode, it’s difficult to come out of it. Speaking from personal experience, sometimes when I get home, I don’t even want to open another textbook but that leads to trouble later on in the week. While it does happen to everyone at some point, do not let lack of motivation stand in the way of your dreams. If you happen to be feeling too much stress or lack passion to do any work, or feel like giving up- it is okay to take time and relax a little bit.
“Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input” as stated in the physics organization website –http://phys.org/news10312.html#jCp
Set a timer on your TV for a half an hour, surf the web for a couple of minutes – if you know there’s a big game or practice coming up work ahead. Don’t forget Dr. Seuss’ advice, “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way.”