Why am I not motivated to finish the PhotoReading home study course?

I get it asked most often in relation to the PhotoReading home study course. Yet this post relates to any self study courses on CDs or DVDs for learning. With home study course kits like PhotoReading you set your own timetable. So lets look at why you’re not motivated to proceed with the PhotoReading course or those other self study courses sitting on your bookshelf.

What stops the motivation to learn PhotoReading.

People start self study courses like the PhotoReading home study course and then wind up putting it aside for many reason within the first couple of CDs. About 2 or 3 hours into the course if not less. One of the common reasons is they buy courses like the PhotoReading home study course a few weeks before a major exam because they urgently need to catch up. They think learning a new skill like PhotoReading or courses that motivate, get organised, do things faster will help them catch up. Yet it’s the worse time to take up something new and certainly the worse time to Learn something new. Learning must each have its own time and exams just take priority.

Shortly after getting the PhotoReading they discover they really don’t have the time to learn something new like PhotoReading.

Others it is simply a case of other things taking a priority and cutting into the tentative time they set aside for the course.. After a week or two of not doing anything with the course guilt sets in and then it can be sitting on the shelf for many months or even years untouched.. Of course that is not how you learn what you set out to learn.

The thinking that stops the motivation.

The PhotoReading course consists of 8 CDs because it cannot be taught with less and it’s a mistake to think you will know the PhotoReading system after listening to the first 2 or 3 CDs. This is usually true for any course. The discovery that it is going to take more than an hour to learn PhotoReading based on an unrealistic expectation is another reason why you are no longer motivated.

Consider also. With the average CD being 1 hour long and if you listened to the first 3 CDs you’ve already spent 3 hours doing the course. The thought of starting the PhotoReading course all over again is demoralising.

And what if you already did the first 2 or 3 hours of the course?

If something happens again that stops you from completing the course 3 hour in and if you started from the beginning you would be at the same point you are now. You may not have put it into so many words never the less the thought was there. That’s daunting. That worry niggles at the back of the mind of anyone who has started a home study course and not finished it. That’s why people are reluctant to dust off the course and start again. They know there is a strong possibility that they will get stalled in the same place and have learned nothing new. The bookshelf can’t learn PhotoReading for you.

What about the worry that everything learned has been forgotten?

Even if you left the PhotoReading course on the shelf for a year or more. Its unlikely you have forgotten everything. Thinking like that is going to block your motivation.

At the same time repeating the course can be boring because you already heard it before. Does that thought motivate you? I can guarantee that you won’t finish the course on your second attempt either. In most cases the people asking me how to be motivated to do the course have already made at least 2 attempts at it.

Now you can see why there is no motivation to complete the course.

In my next post Ill give you the secret for finishing the PhotoReading course or any self study course you bought for self improvement.

© Alex K Viefhaus