My Personal Action Plan For 2017

Goals are a part of everyday life. From gaining the strength to get out of bed in the morning to winning that blue medal around your neck, everybody has made a goal once in their life. Sometimes it can be as easy as saying you’re not going to eat that last cupcake on the platter in front of you or as hard as saying “Hello” to that special someone in your life that you find adorable, either way you have made a goal. It’s also important to remember there is short term goals and long term goals. Short term goals are easier to achieve and can be very helpful in leading up to your long term goals. We can even classify our goals into personal goals, academic goals, and professional goals, as well as others.

Without writing them down, they would only be notions and most likely would only achieve ideas, not goals. As a result, I have written down the goals I spoke of above and will reach them. Meeting other people in my career field, becoming a well rounded individual, and receiving my mechanical engineer degree are important to my future. With these goals, I will attain my educational goals at the University of California, Los Angeles and it will set me up to accomplish my personal career aspirations that I have set for my future. Furthermore, if I keep on track, my future will look bright and I will have an exciting life in the years to come.Therefore, I will achieve the goals that I have set forth for the growth of my

The goal that I established to address the element of weakness will address the need for an increase in individual student planning, specifically related to career readiness and success as well as post-secondary options. This goal addresses the attributes of a SMART goal in the following ways: Specific – I will develop and implement three classroom guidance lessons that cover the importance of career planning, the different career paths,

For this section I will present two short-term SMART goals that will help me to improve

These smaller goals can span any amount of time, short-term or long-term (Massey, 2014). Having smaller sub-goals will help make the main goal appear more achievable, and celebrating the completion of each of these sub-goals will serve as a catalyst to keep the student excited and motivated as they continue along their educational journey (Williams, 2014). By not setting smaller goals and missing larger goals, students will get discouraged and feel like failures (Williams, 2011).

There is three phase to goal-setting strategies (planning, implementation, and evaluation). The goal-setting program will be useful if the process is thoroughly carried out. For example, identifying the action and measuring the progress of each goal. The implementation portion will be to monitor the progress of each goal. The goals will change with time as an individual digest the goal itself. Lastly, receiving feedback from others, such as friends, colleagues, and family help improves the target strategy. Goal-setting creates a focus of attention and action by identifying what an individual vision of his or her life (Rohn, 2015).

I plan to develop a time table and lay out exactly how my week will go each week so that I can stay on track. I plan to decrease the amount of time I spend on activities such as social media and watching television so that I can dedicate more time to achieving this goal. Basically, this goal is all about managing my time appropriately and that is what I plan to do. I plan on scheduling my day accordingly as if I had a physical class to go to and use that time to study and complete assignments. Another action that I plan on taking toward this goal is to take my work with me everywhere, including vacations. I take time off regularly for family vacations and just quality family time but because of this challenging goal, I must sacrifice some of that time. I see it as a short-term sacrifice that those who care about my success will

Once you have set your goals then you should consider some of the following to help you reach your goals. Each of these items that you think about will help you develop your strategy for achieving your goals. As with most plans, proper execution of the plan is crucial to your success. Let 's discuss some of the

I kept my goals organized by using SMART goals as an outline. SMART is an acronym which stands for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely.

Firman’s presentation entitled “Setting and getting to goals”, presented very effective strategies for developing and accomplishing goals which I found to be helpful for my personal goals as well as treatment goals for clients. A SMART worksheet accompanied the presentation and denotes the terms and steps specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time-based. A goal is considered specific if it is clear and well defined. When goals are clearly defined it becomes easier to develop a technique for measuring its progress. Additionally, it provides individuals with a better understanding of the steps needed to accomplish set goal. Goals are realistic when individuals are willing and able to work towards it as well as construct a time frame in which to achieve it. During this presentation, I was consumed with thoughts of my specific goal of finishing my portfolio within the first week of December, where a checklist will be used to measure progress. The actions include completing work for at least two hours nightly which I am willing and able to do. I thought of it as a useful tool for clients as it would provide them with autonomy and empower them to become more responsible for setting and making SMART

“Keep your goals out of reach, but not out of sight.” –Anonymous. All goals in life should be challenging, or a dream you have. Never set the bar too low, to make it easy on yourself, nor set the bar to high, that makes you put yourself under some much stress so it makes it impossible to reach your goal at a healthy state in mater in your life. Having goals in your life helps you picture what you want in the future and what the future has in store for you. There is a difference between the goals you want to happen soon and the goals you want to happen in the future. The goals you what to happen soon are call short term goals. The goals that you have set for your future are called long term goals. Three short term goals I have are, making it to state track, joining NHS and NSHSS, and getting my CNA. A long term goal I have is to graduate from The University of Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in

Some examples of these goals are, doing well in all of my classes, getting a job, or joining clubs. Although these ideas are useful to work towards, they fail to meet the SMART criteria. This criteria, explored by Locke (2004) and extensively used in business and academic settings, allows one to create suitable goals for themselves. A SMART goal should be “Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time Based.” My working goal, created after self evaluation and assessment, is Achieving and maintaining a 3.3 GPA for the winter 2016 semester. This goal satisfies all SMART criteria, and is of an adequate level of challenge. In order to meet my goal for the end of the Winter semester, I have defined some specific task and actions needed to be taken. First, since this goal is academic, I must clearly define study habits and routines. Rather than simply reading text or taking notes, I will assign specific times for study. It is suggested that for every hour of in-class instructional time, two to three hours of work should be done out of class. I determined that I am in class for 14 hours and 30 minutes per week. This means I should assign at least 29 hours of time outside of lecture periods for study, research, and assignments. To meet these requirements, I can assign specific hours for each day as study time. In order to combat procrastination, I will apply methods that allow me to get a head-start on my work, and ensure I have a balanced work load around due dates. In order to keep up with my progress, in my case, GPA, I will use blackboard, and keep up to date with my professors. To successfully reach my goal by the end of the semester, I will also take advantage of various support tools and

One of the best ways to follow a successful path is to set goals for yourself. They are important to keep yourself on task and to get to a desired point of self fulfillment. The issue can be how to achieve goals in a successful manner. The issue is "Although people may desire or intend to attain some outcome, they are not committed to that as a goal until they are willing to invest affect, cognition, and behavior in attaining it" (Traci Mann, 2013). This is why it is important to have a set path on how to accomplish important goals. I have chosen three goals that I want to accomplish to demonstrate a Process known as SMART, to help accomplish them. There goals are that I want to finally earn a college degree(personal), I want to make it

I know have a list of short-term goals that will eventually help me reach my long-term goal of graduating with a business degree.

A successful person chooses goals to achieve something that is of great value and importance to them. This in turn motivates the person to achieve the goal because when the desired outcome is very important to a person, that person will be determined to persevere. Goal setting also improves a person 's organizational and time management skills because goal setting requires prioritization and that leads to the successful and sequential completion of necessary tasks. Once a person defines and prioritizes goals a plan should be drawn out detailing how this goal will be achieved. Goals and the time-line for their completion should be clearly defined, it is also important that a person 's