academic fear and exploring rewards

This week I am going to use academic fear and exploring rewards for my studying.

This semester, my tasks of my courses are not hard. I am keep doing my work. however, I am kind of lazy sometimes.  I have very high expectation for myself.  I finished all my homework.  My problem is that I can do better during this homework. My fear is laziness. In addition, when I am taking literal art courses, such as linguistic. My English is still a problem. I cannot read very fast.  I have to spend a lot of time reading again and again. by the way, it is a huge lecture. Professor pays very little attention to each individual student. 

So I write a tables for myself to analyze my problems. This tables are listed as following.

Academic fear	Worst outcome	Best outcome	Attention needed
1.     Laziness 2.     Reading in English 3.     Endless homework assignment 4.     High pressure exam	1.Low grade in the courses 2. fail the classes 3. disappoint myself and paretns. 4. waste my money and time.	1.     high grade 2.     easy to find a intenship or job.	1.keep myself busy and doing my work on time. 2. socialize less time. 3. pay more attention in the courses.

the other strategy is exploring rewards. I used this strategy pretty often.  Because I don’t want to study all the time, I give myself a lot of time to entertain myself. When I got high grade in my exam, I often reward myself something. Such as food, clothes.  I feel very excited when I get high grade in my exams.  at same time, I will encourage myself keep studying in the future. In other hand, I will reward myself. It is a win win strategy. I also listed my table as following.

No cost rewards	Play more time with ppl on my floor every night. Study less time. Watch tv, or play video game
Low cost rewards	Buy myself a meal of great food.  Or go to movie with friends. Buy a second hand video game
High cost reward	Buy myself clothes I like or sneaker I like. At the same time, I can buy some toys for myself.