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This project was one I have never had before.  It gave me the chance to create something with practically any boundaries.  It allowed me to put who I was into something I enjoyed.  The effort to do this project was not hard to find.  I enjoyed the freedom to pursue something I could relate to and how much I could accomplish when in the beginning I did not think that was possible.  I enjoy seeing others succeed and because of this project I could possibly influence peoples ability to do so.  This is something that I can feel good about, also while not only helping them but helping myself.  I found in doing this there is more to my ambition than I originally believed.  This project has established something new in my life that will impact me for as long as I work towards something.  If I could have done one thing differently was being able to blog more and start off with this idea.  It would have been nice to be able to get others ideas on what motivates them to do the things they love.  Passion was such and will continue to be such a big part of this project.  It is was drove me and what drives others.   It is was has lead to the largest discoveries in this country's history.  It is what allowed the Wright Brothers to never give up or Thomas Edison to never give up.  It was the passion that drives us in the beginning of a journey towards a goal, and that is what motivates a lot of us.  Motivation is key to not give up, what motivates them to not give up?  Why does it motivate them? How does it motivate them?  These things I want to ask hundreds of people to ask themselves.  To hopefully help them do what I do now, which is motivate themselves to coincide with the passion they carry for what they are doing.  This is what I have gathered from this project, and I haven't learned everything yet, and I continue to want to learn on this matter.  I believe self motivation is the best type of motivation and I encourage people to pursue it, like I have.

            I have decided how I feel most comfortable doing my motivation.  I have to continue to work on thinking of ideas that will improve my project but that might take me a little bit.  I want to not only motivate others but myself as well.  I want to not rely on others to get me to do things.  I want to do things for myself not because something else influenced me.  This is one of the things I have thought about during this duration.  Hopefully, I will be able to post another video this Monday.  Currently thinking of a word to use this week, I am thinking something that'll give someone a toughness type of attitude this week.

Something I will start doing with my videos is called W.O.W or Word of the Week.  A word to use as motivation at whatever you want for that week. Maybe it can help you stay focused on an assignment.  I am hoping this new little theme will make my videos more intriguing to those who view them.  We use something like this on the baseball team and it helps us focus in on our goal for the practice. Now we use word of the day so I am not stealing the phrase but making a more marketable form of it. I am planning on doing a video Thursday and then next week finding a permanent day to do them so you can know when to look for them. Also I would like to have people leave comments on my videos. Let me know what I can do to make them help motivate you more. Help me help you.

Progress is made, still more work to be done

   January 24, 2014

                          So today i made some progress on things i want to talk about.  I am thinking along the lines of not only being the first but how.  I was thinking of using an analogy of a phone battery.  You charge it while you sleep and you use it all day while your awake.  Well what if we approached everyday that way?  All day we spend our time investing in what we are doing.  We work on each task until complete.  I mean you wouldn't end a conversation with your answer to your question.  So why "shut down" before we have reached what we wanted to accomplish for the day.  Now, it is not complete yet because I have to find a way to use this to connect to real life examples.  Also, I do not know how well this will actually motivate teenagers who would rather watch reruns of Duck Dynasty then work on a project that they got to choose what do!  However, this is still progress and plan to do more thinking on more catchy phrases and ways to sell them.  I would also like to make a video and get it passed around and get feedback, like what they do for movies, and get feedback on the good and the bad.  Help me, help them.  I feel like I have some good ideas, i just need to make the connection and find ways to have them influence a younger population.  Like I said, a lot of work to still do but it is a start and I have a good feeling something is going to hit me in the next couple days.  Also, stay tuned for a video because I plan on making a rough draft this weekend.  It won't be long, maybe 3-5 minutes.  But, like my great AP Lang teacher stated, it will follow the mini-skirt rule.