Zero motivation?!?!?!?!

[imleiw]

Hello everybody! So I'm only in year 11, but I literally can't bring myself to do homework or study. All my life I've been really lazy when it comes to school, I've managed to just pass, and even failed both english exams last year. But this year I've wanted to create good study habits, so I won't have to go through this next year. I've got my method sorted out, and it's a really good one and it works when I can actually be bothered, but how can I get myself into the habit of doing this every night?

My subjects are:
English Language (averaging around 80%)
General Math (averaging around 75%)
Religion and Society (averaging around 90%)
Legal Studies (averaging around 85%)
Psychology (averaging around 75%)
Music Performance (only done 1 outcome, got 97%)

Anyway, I just cannot be bothered doing anything. I haven't done homework all week, and the majority of my homework, and even school work is pointless.

Basically, I feel like I'm learning more in legal studies than I do in any other subject, and we barely ever get homework, like pretty much never. My teacher just talks about the topic all lesson, and I just write it all down - he even gives us stuff that isn't in the textbook which I heard examiners like that stuff. Psychology is probably one of my worst subjects, and we get mountains of homework. A few weeks ago we got an outcome on the Wednesday, and it was due the next day. I started at 5pm, and still wasn't finished at 2am, so I went to bed and woke up an hour early to finish it. In class our teacher just makes us read and do questions out of the textbook, it doesn't help me at all. Plus my teacher is a year 7&8 P.E teacher who has never taught psychology, but majored in it in uni, I guess he's pretty educated in psychology, but he only knows how to teach P.E.

I want to eventually be a clinical psychologist, hopefully end up with some sort of doctorate. I just want to be motivated enough to get there. I'm aiming for an ATAR of above 70, at least.

[engton1796]

I felt the same way you did last year  (in Year 11)  but I didn't bother for most of the year.

However,  what got me motivated was seeing people get high scores in tests or SACs or whatever and envying them on how good they did,  imagining how good it would be to get that score.  When I was in those moods,  then I would go and study or do some homework. 

If you dragged yourself to do the homework every night,  the quality of the homework wouldn't be that good.  You just gotta find a way to feel motivated;  I suppose seeing others get good was what worked for me.  Trust me,  you'll know after you get a good mark out of a SAC you studied for.  You want to keep getting it over and over.