It All Starts with Motivation


If you say that ”Finnish language is so difficult, I will never learn it”, I have to say that you are right. You won’t. If your attitude is that, you probably won’t. Think that several people before you have learned it. Why couldn’t you? Changing the attitude is easier if you are motivated. How to find motivation? What does motivation mean? The definition of the word motivation in Oxford Dictionary is ”a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way”.

So what you have to do is to find a reason to learn Finnish (or anything else). Why do you want to learn it? Maybe you live in Finland. Would it be pleasant to be able to communicate with locals by using their language? Is your spouse Finnish? Does your child speak Finnish? Do you need that language to get a job? When you have a reason to study Finnish it becomes much easier.

Motivation is the first tool you need when you want to learn something. I believe that anything is possible if you want it enough. But when you have once found motivation, it doesn’t mean that it stays forever. You might lose it sometimes and when that happens you have to find it again. What was the reason in the first place? The process of learning is not linear, it has steps. Sometimes you feel that you study and work hard but there is no progress. It just means that you are on one step. Keep studying. Don’t give up eventhough it feels useless. Suddenly you reach the point when you move to the next step and progress happens.

It’s easy to be motivated when you rise the steps.  The hard part is to stay motivated when you remain where you are and it starts to feel pointless. When you are not progressing try to remember your reason why you study and also believe me when I tell you that the process of learning is like that. When it feels useless I assert that if you keep working you will reach the next step.

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