If you’re looking to focus your motivation on learning or trying something new, this worksheet is your tool. It’s designed to enhance learning efficiency by stimulating the brain’s decision-making centers.  When a decision is made, the brain is primed to learn the necessary steps and refine the action based on the observed outcome. Successful decision-making leads to desired changes that meet unmet needs, and the brain is eager to remember how to meet those needs consistently. It does this by forming habits and patterns that replicate successful action steps. In this way, the brain uses memory, motivation, and analytical thought to create learning patterns.

The key to this worksheet is the sequence of steps that activate areas of the brain that result in awareness, enhanced focus, and improved motivation to decide to learn.  The questions provide the decision-making areas of the brain with the contextualized information they need to do their jobs better. When you know why you are learning something and that something is important to you, you will be more motivated to learn the subject content. The goal of this worksheet is to trigger the cortical-thalamic release that is necessary to begin solution-seeking that engages learning. The brain will better know if the rewards and consequences are enough.

At times, especially when learning something new, it’s easy to lose focus and question the energy and time invested. This is particularly true during intense study sessions when the context of learning and its relation to the desired outcome can be lost. This uncertainty can be disorienting and often leads to inadequate learning outcomes. However, by completing this worksheet, the decision maker can provide the necessary inputs to the decision-making areas, thereby triggering the cognitive resources required for effective learning. This worksheet can serve as a guide during the learning process, helping to maintain focus on the desired outcomes and reasons for learning.

When you have finished a worksheet, the results and the accompanying learning material recommendations are reviewable. Follow the link to the Learning Motivator Review List page when you

• need to re-establish motivation
• have finished a break, and will begin again
• review the recommended supplementary material
• want to confirm the relevance of the learning

Simply follow the prompts, fill out each box with your responses, and submit the completed worksheet. This straightforward process will guide you through the steps, making it easier to use the worksheet effectively.