Looking back at our 1st unit which was self awareness and self esteem, it brings me back to my old days where I never feel confident about myself. I believe that I wasn’t able to accomplish any goals that I set and that I will never taste success. It then leads to my poor grades. Getting scolding from parents and endless warnings from teacher to start bucking up doesn’t help. In fact, it made me feel worst and I felt so useless that no one has faith in me. I was afraid that I would plunge into depression so I seek help from a student counselor in school. I guess it was a blessing in disguise. He told me there’s nothing much he could help, accept to help me to start believing in myself. He told me the first step to achieve this was to set up my goals and believing in myself that I was going to achieve the goals that I’ve set. It was amazing how those simple steps leads me to who I am now. I become more confident of myself. The falls I faced in life doesn’t pull me down; instead it helps me to be a stronger person, being able to face more challenges ahead of me.

I strongly believe that time management is very important. Based on unit 2 of LMS, we often believe that 24 hours doesn’t seem to be enough for us to complete tasks that we are suppose to do. This then leads to this phrase which we often hear, be it from people around you like your friends or coming from you yourself, “too many things to do, too little time”. One main factor that leads to time constraint is procrastination. Often we know we have to complete certain projects or homework, our brain will divert our focus to somewhere else such as watching TV or just browsing the net. Therefore, time management has become essential in every one of us. Without time management, even having 48hrs per day won’t be enough. We must get our priorities right first in order to achieve the tasks/goals we plan to achieve.

Be it discussions or just casual talks between you or your friends, it will come to your mind how communication has become a very powerful tool in life. Without communication, friendship will not even exist in the first place. In time of conflicts or misunderstanding, you will realized that without communication, nothing can be resolved. It is important for you to listen to other before you want others to listen to you. The way you communicate with others is also important. Often, the way you speak and how to speak reflects your personality and people will begin to judge you. Through unit 3 of LMS, I believe everyone will be able to learn communication skills. It will not just be a lesson learn during LMS. It can be lesson that can last you a lifetime too.

Managing anger, fear and conflict interlink to one another as it involves emotional pain. Looking at Albert Ellis’s theory, rational therapy, I believe a person’s personal philosophy contains beliefs that lead to his own emotional pain. Based on my experience, I often fear of taking exams as I believe that I will fail. It is my belief that I brought about fear in me. In order to manage your feelings, you must be able to be in control of yourself. No one is in control of you except yourself.

Lastly, let’s touch on the word success. Different people have their own definition of success. To me, success is to achieve the happiness in life and the goals of your life. No one can decide for me what or how my success is going to be. & I believe that this success can only be achieve if you have passion in wanting to achieve it. No use saying what you want, but if you didn’t put your heart and soul into it, nothing is achievable and you will never taste success.

From LMS assignment 2, I have learnt more in depth about self motivation. I believe that once one’s is lack of self motivation, it’s going to be hard for him to achieve his goals. Self motivation is essential to achieve what you want because it is within your control and no one else. You can’t always depend on others to motivate you and keep you going but instead depend on yourself.

Upon doing research, I have come by articles that really motivate me and I kept for further references. I agree that lack of direction was one of the 4 primary reasons why we lose motivation. Putting this into my experience, everyone wants to achieve success and often thinks of the primary effects, neglecting the secondary effect that actually is more important than the primary effects. We sometimes only think of the aftermath more than the process on how to achieve the success. Thus, when we realize we don’t know where to start from, we often lose motivation because the whole process of it is much more difficult than what you expect it be. These words such as ,`die uh, cannot make it’ often comes out of our mouth which results in negative thinking that will then affect your self motivation.

This assignment has in fact improve the level of self motivation in me and I’m up to face any challenges ahead of me because I’m more confident of myself and I believe nothing is unachievable as long as you believe you can. This project was a test of our time management. Having so many projects in hands, I have to admit that it was hard to juggle all of them as their date dues were near to one another. We have to sacrifice our weekends to complete our projects as we can’t fit them in into our curriculum timetable. Making the video wasn’t an easy task too as none of us actually has any experience on taking or making a video. It was overall a new experience for all of us. However, we keep ourselves going by motivating each other and pushing each other ahead so as to ensure we all progress and move ahead together in achieving the best for our assignment.

I believe that this assignment has made us closer as a group as the discussions and meeting has help us in our communication and create a bond between each and every one of us. Though we were less prepared for the trial as compared to the previous assignment, I believe that good work needs greater efforts thus much more time. I believe every one of us put in the best effort we could and I’m proud that all of us sacrifice our time willingly although it eats up our resting time, hanging out time or even family time. With this, I hope my group will do well and that our hard work will be paid off. Lms has brought us all together, we have all learn better life management skills and I hope it will be a lesson that will last us all a lifetime and will help us through in the future. ((: