Catchy Title Many students find it very difficult to be the Mastery Student they want to be. An immense component of being a Mastery Student is knowing how to set goals properly. There are three characteristics commonly found in Mastery Students. Setting goals brings responsibility, a sense of accomplishment, and relaxation. When done accurately, goals can bring many benefits. There are many benefits to making goals. Before you make a goal, it is essential to realize why it is important that you are doing this. First, when forming goals, make yourself aware of your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing your strengths is empowering, however, the feeling may not be the same when facing weaknesses. Many people view weaknesses as a bad thing, but it just shows where more work and focus is needed. It is imperative that both are recognized. If they are not recognized, the plan made to achieve the goal will not be as effective because you will spend the same amount of time on the strengths and weaknesses. If you acknowledge both, less time will be needed on the strengths, and more time can be spent on the weaker areas. Making goals also gives you something to work for and a guide along with it. This guide will help form a path to achieve the goal. This will not only help with goal making, but it will be very beneficial with other things in life because it also brings responsibility. Responsibility can become rather frightening and overwhelming when forming goals, but with responsibility brings a sense of accomplishment, and after attaining the goal, a sigh of relief will overcome the anxiety. If responsibility is a weakness, then one thing that can be done to help with the workload is separating wishful thinking ... ... middle of paper ... ... most people do have plenty of time, they just don’t realize it. Another reason for not setting goals is the fear of losing or disappointment. Nobody likes the feeling of not succeeding, but there is always something a win in trying. These are just a few reasons why people do not set goals. Although there are a million reasons I could use to not set goals, there are a million and one reasons why I should. I have found goal setting to be very beneficial. Many times I find myself making goals without even meaning to. Using a planner has made it effortless to set and achieve my goals. I use the SMART goal format, and I focus on the measurability of my goal. I set times and dates in my planner, and I have been very successful with achieving my goals. Goal setting is a very valuable component of being a Mastery Student. Goals provide expectations, and you are the judge.
Setting goals for yourself creates an individual growth. In the article, “Why we are looking at the ‘value’ of college all wrong” by Valerie Strauss, Nelson discusses how an independent learner is able to teach themselves and learn from the challenges they tend to face. “The educated graduate is an independent learner…able to direct his or her own learning in accordance with the challenges that life presents in the circumstances of his or her own life.(Strauss 1)” For example, I want to become Registered Nurse; therefore, I write that down as one of my goals. However, I would then have to write everything else in order to become a Registered Nurse. Having a goal set that I want to become a RN, I now have something to strive at and to motivate myself to reach that goal. Therefore, creating goals helps establish what direction I am trying to go in, and also allows me to figure out how to solve a problem. Another example is if I failed a test, I will try to examine the errors within my work; however, I will then create a goal for myself to make sure I do better on test the next time. Finding the errors and creating goals to fix the errors makes me an independent learner. I am taking the charge that I want to do better; therefore, I am going to create a goal to help me succeed. By fixing the errors, I then challenge myself inside and outside the
I set goals for myself all the time in many different aspects of my life. This experience was different because I don’t always take the time to write out goals. Taking this extra step allows you to plan for success despite barriers that may arise due to your environment or social systems. As a social worker I will be better equipped to empower others in goal setting and planning after going through the planning myself. Being aware of how social systems and the environment affect goal setting will allow me the ability to view client’s situations through an ecological lens, while empowering them in the goal setting and planning
You should also have a willingness to expand your efforts and reach your goals. Understand how hard you are willing to work to achieve your goals. Then analyze if you generally pick easy goals that can be quickly reached or those that require hard work and some time to achieve. This will help you determine the quality of your goals.
It is the things about planning your future that really makes me hesitant, setting goals to accomplish, sometimes just to let yourself down. There are not many things I tell myself to do out of fear of not reaching my destination. My goals in life are few by my possiblities are endless. I have not set myself up for failure but, I have not planned a successful future either. There are academic, professional, and personal goals I desire to reach, I feel it is always important to set goals, because without them, you have no future to work towards.
The established three goals for my practicum were coordinated with my mentor Joan Green, Director of Accessibility Resource Center (ARC) to be accomplished during the 2017 spring semester along with feedback from Professor Chavez.
These will help you keep focused and work according to a plan to achieve them. The best way to go about is keeping that ultimate big goal in mind, also have small milestone targets. Achieving these smaller targets will keep you motivated enough to pursue that ultimate objective.
Setting goals is the most important thing you can do in your life. Without goal's you are going to have no direction, no ambition to be successful, no drive to stay in school, and trouble finding a career that will provide for you. Without these three things, achieving your goals is going to be one of the toughest tasks in the years to come.
Setting goals and priorities are an important part of any successful plan. By setting goals you are making a statement about what you wish to accomplish. Goals provide you with focus and motivation. You are more likely to get things done when you set goals for yourself. Priorities are the key to helping you to meet those goals. Priories help you to determine what tasks need to be done and when. Setting priorities keeps you on track and on time.
Many people tend to set goals. They can set goals for their personal life, academics, or even for their professional lives. You can literally set a goal for pretty much anything you can imagine. I believe that people should set goals, they help you stay focused and want to do better for the future. Goals change all of the time though, because of a lot of different reasons, maybe you found that one thing just really is not what you want to do with your life, so you find something else to do. To me that is just how life is, my goals will most likely change as I am getting older and trying to find what I want to do with the rest of my life.
Radar (2005) said that if students write goals down, then they are able to examine themselves and see what they want to accomplish. In order to be successful in achieving goals, the students must have a good understanding of what it is that they need to accomplish. When setting goals, students need to know all the different types of goals such as long-term and short-term goals. Knowing these will help students to understand how to put what they are learning in perspective and whether it is a yearlong goal
Goal setting is key in motivation; goals need to be clear, sharp, and realistic. To make these feel more achievable it is better to break these down into smaller medium-term goals and medium-term goals into short-term goals so that you have a clear connection between what one does every day and their long-term goals.
It is important to identify what my end goal is. Knowing what my end goal is for various aspects of my life helps me create goals that will lead me to my end goal. I think to myself what are some things that I can do daily to help guide me towards this goal. I think being organized can really help you identify what is important and not important.
When I create a goal I always write down whether the goal is actually SMART, if I find that the goal is not “SMART” than I add all of the attributes of a SMART goal to it. These goals benefit my life because it keeps me organized on what I exactly what to accomplish I life. So far, by using smart goals I have been able to track just how well I have been doing in school. Every time I complete a goal, I get excited to complete the next goal. My goals keep me on track for my success and they motivate me to move on to the next goal. It’s an unspoken sensation to feel like you accomplished
In setting a goal, you set up a grand goal and then you break it down into smaller goals. This helps you to further monitor your progress on a smaller scale and helps you stay motivated and focused because each time you achieve one of the smaller goals, it keeps you inspired to achieve the grand goal. Set goals that are definite with a well-known target to achieve, always giving yourself a specific time-stamped to achieve your goals. However, ensure that your goals and time lines set are realistic otherwise you will end frustrated chasing castles in the
Once you set your goal, you need to start getting more specific. It moves from a dream into reality. Make a plan, it must move from your mind to a piece of paper. Write down the things that you need to do. What do you want to achieve? What will be your life when you achieve your goal? Things that you need to be done. Things that you want to learn more about your goal. Qualities that you admire in others. Improves the qualities you have. Habits that you want to stop and habits that you want to improve.