Overview
What excites you? Identify something that you would like to achieve. Examples include working in a specific career, learning a new skill, or achieving a health-related goal. Describe your motivation toward this goal or achievement. What is the current optimal level of challenge for you? For example, if you have the goal of becoming a licensed therapist, your current level of challenge may be learning counseling theories and types of counseling. It would not be to secure a license within the next year. If you are interested in becoming proficient at yoga and have never done yoga, you would not begin with advanced yoga. You would find a beginning-level yoga class or perhaps begin with reading about the different types of yoga and then looking for yoga instruction in your area. You would set small and realistic goals for yourself before moving to higher levels of skill.
For this assessment, you will write a paper about yourself and one of your goals. To help prepare, complete the Self-Determination Concepts and Optimal Challenge and Flow media activities. Use the APA Paper Template [DOCX] to complete this assessment. Two resources provide guidance to APA citation style and examples:
Instructions
Write a 2–5 page paper about yourself and one of your goals. Because it is a paper specifically about you, it is best to write in first person (using pronouns I, me, my, and so on). In your paper, do the following:
- Explain your goal and current level of optimal challenge with the goal.
- Analyze both the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that are part of your motivation toward this goal.
- Analyze personality factors that play a role in your interest and motivation toward this goal.
- Use theories and concepts to explain how you might use these to promote your motivation and success in regard to the goal.
- Analyze how this information can continue to support your personal and professional behaviors in the future.
Use professional or scholarly sources of information to support your discussion of optimal challenge, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and personality factors. One of those sources might be the course textbook. Be sure to look closely at the scoring guide as you write your paper. Work toward the language for the Distinguished level scoring.
Submission Requirements
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting. Use the APA Paper Template [DOCX] to complete this assessment.
- Resources: Minimum of three professional or scholarly resources. One can be the course textbook.
- Length: 2–5 typed, double-spaced pages of content, in addition to a title page and references page.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
- ePortfolio: You are encouraged to save this learning activity to your ePortfolio. See the Online ePortfolio Guidelines [PDF] for assistance.