Solutions for self motivation?

I’ll briefly describe what my situation in order to better understand what this question is about.

I am 18 years old. My mom passed away in December of 2007 a couple of days before Christmas. My dad left me when I was 2 and is not in contact with me at all.

After she passed away I went through a bit of turmoil, unsupportive family, school was hard, so on.

I lived with my aunt and uncle for several months but criticism between each other reached its limit and I moved out and to my friends house.

Over the span over about 1.5 years, (since my moms death), I’ve been slowly going down a slope of de-motivation. I can’t get out of bed anymore, I want to live a successful life. But the road I am on now, I won’t graduate. I only 3 classes to pass and I am having a hard time motivating myself to pass them to graduate.

My question is… are there any methods to make self-motivation easier to come by. All I want to do is graduate high school and continue on to a higher education. I have aspirations but not the motivation to achieve them.

I have my phone set to wake me up at 6, 6:10, 6:30 and sometimes all three of those don’t wake me up. My counselor calls me in the morning to wake me up and today that didn’t even wake me up.

I know I have a moderate case of depression but not enough time to fix it. I have about… 7 weeks to get my school work in check. All I need is D’s to graduate…

You obviously have had and still have a tough situation to deal with, with all that’s happened in your life, especially recently! Please give yourself a hand for just hanging in there!

What about writing down as many of your personal life goals as you can think of? Imagine in your mind in great detail what you think it would feel like to reach your most cherished goals someday. Then see if you can relate graduating from school with realizing or not realizing some of these most important goals. How necessary is graduating school to your life goals? Maybe then you’ll find the motivation to finish school. Just a thought.

I’m certainly no expert at motivation, but I think imagining goals in your head, then imagining yourself reaching them, might be a first step to motivating yourself. Good Luck!